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...again last week. Walter Gilbert Campbell, director of the department's regulatory work took it before the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. He wished to clear the administration of Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby's long repeated charges that it was willfully permitting the importation of rotten ergot, fluid extract of which (says Dr. Rusby) is killing large numbers of women in childbirth (TIME, April...
Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...revisers of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, reiterated to the Senate's investigating committee last week the well-known fact that Spanish ergot is better than Russian ergot. The Russian product until recent months has been wormy, lousy and rotten, due to careless handling. Only a low-grade and deleterious extract, says Dr. Rusby, can be made from it. He charged that the food, drug & insecticide administrator has been illegally admitting rotten raw ergot into the U. S. due to the blandishments of manufacturing pharmacists who claimed they could recondition the polluted raw material and make from it an efficient extract...
...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's idealistic intervention, is nothing but a commercial fight, nothing...
Pyrethrum extract...