Merck's Index of Fine Chemicals and Drugs for the Materia Medica and the Arts (Classic Reprint)

New York, January, 1S89. To the Members of the IM edical and JP harninceittical Professions of A merica. Dear Sirs: In looking back upon the line of generations during which my Home Office and Laboratories at Darmstadt, Germany, have been in existence, I find that yonder Office has, for many years past, held agreeable relations with you, gentlemen of both professions in A merica, through the intermediation of your Importers and Drug Merchants. I find, furthermore, that those relations have become widened in extent and deepened in reciprocal regard, with unfailing constancy, as year after year wore on. This was made manifest to me, from time to time, in many different ways ;among others, by numerous requests from distinguished members of your professions, to the effect that I would provide a more convenient avenue of mutual communication between us. The continued recurrence of these requests, and the multiplying number of the sources whence they came, finally caused me to accede to them, by establishing a House of my Own in A merica, which was opened in Febi uai ij of 1SS7- That action of mine, however, was in no irise inspired by any distrust or unfriendly sentiment, on my part, toward the able and respected merchants who always have been, and still are, the intermediaries of your intercourse vith me. They have not in the least changed their position in this regard ;with the sole exception that, instead of being obliged, heretofore, to send their orders for my products to my Darmstadt office, they now obtain their supplies directly and promptly from my American warehouse, which is more readily accessible to them. Hereby the course of trade in these chemicals is not altered in any other wise than that of added ease, promptness, and certainty of execution. Thus, my business relations with the American Wholesale Drug and Chemical Trade remain precisely as they
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