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...Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Director Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Administration had asked for the probing. His accusers were Henry Hurd Rusby, retired dean of Columbia University's Department of Pharmacy, and Howard W. Ambruster. Manhattan crude drug importer who has lost much money on Spanish ergot which large U. S. drug manufacturers would not buy from him because they believed that he had tried to victimize them with a Spanish ergot corner (TIME, June...
Supporting the pharmacology of Dr. Rusby, to whom Pure Ergot has become the crusade of a pure scientist, were able testifiers?Dr. Edward Joseph Ill, chairman of an investigating committee of the American Association of Obstetricians, gynecologists & abdominal surgeons; Dr. Carl Haller Ill of Newark, N. J.; Professor Heber Wilkinson Youngken of Boston; Dr. Walter Barclay Mount of Montclr, N. J.; Professor Fanchon Hart of Columbia University; Dr. F. Garrison of the National Association of Drug Clerks. Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, 85, of Washington, who was largely instrumental in setting up the pure food and drug laws 24 years...
Another prime supporter of Dean Rusby's contentions was a Manhattan importer and consulting chemist named Howard W. Ambruster. He specializes in arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time?for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although...
...this week's rebuttal would come not only from the Federal officials accused but from manufacturing pharmacists whose good reputation was being impugned by Dean Rusby and Importer Ambruster. The direction of the manufacturers' testimony, endorsed by pharmacologists of Dean Rusby's grade, was to be: 1) that Spanish ergot is commercially better than Russian ergot because more fluid extract can be made from a given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that the ergot "scandal," apart from Dean Rusby...
...peasants are learning a painful caution about black bread. It is made of rye. Russian rye is subject to ergot rust. Sometimes only one or two grains of the rye head are affected. The ergot is useful in obstetrics. In Russia, ergot occasionally is ground in with the rye flour, inadvertently causes abortions, gangrene...