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...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...
With the chemistry chair at Purdue went the job of chemist for the State of Indiana. To the Indiana Board of Health, Dr. Harvey Wiley made the first reports of food adulteration ever made to a U. S. state board. He agitated vigorously. He left Purdue in 1883 to become chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture...
...foodstuffs fought him bitterly. As chief U. S. chemist he fought with every bludgeon and ruse he could for the passage of Federal pure food laws. In 1906 Congress passed such laws. In the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft the opposition became climactic. Both Presidents sustained Dr. Wiley. He resigned in 1912, after downing hecklers...
...Wiley's most brilliant counterattack against the manufacturers was the formation of his "Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
After Dr. Wiley left the Department of Agriculture he kept a jealous eye on the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, continually charged it with lax enforcement. When last month he appeared before a Senate Committee investigating that Administration (see p. 34), Senators grieved to see him decrepit. They remembered him as Mark Sullivan in Our Times describes him: "His large head capping the pedestal of broad shoulders and immense chest, his salient nose shaped like the bow of an icebreaker, and his piercing eyes...