Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1914 — Drug Prices Advance Since Great War Started. [ARTICLE]

Drug Prices Advance Since Great War Started.

The price of drugs, many of which are indispensable in the compounds ing of various medicines, are steadily going up as a result of the war. Many of the ingredients are native of European cduntries and it is impossible to procure them since the war. A manufacturing pharmacist in Indianapolis is reported as saying that the inability to procure the drugs from Europe will result in an effort to make money of the acids, etc., in this country. One of the drugs which Germany has supplied is asparin. This has had a large itse in the U. S. in recent years. It is a mild narcotic. Its makers have become immensely wealthy. One of the chief ingredients is salaeylic acid which is obtained abroad.

Belladonna is grown in southern Europe. The price, there is from 10 to 15 cents per pound. The crop was short this year and the price went up to 30 to 50 a pound- Since the war the price has advanced to $2 per pound. Belladonna is used to give luster to the eyes. Camphor has advanced 40 per cent in price. It is manufactured in .Japan and China. Carbolic acid is made in this country and foreign countries also and has advanced in price. Russian white mineral oil has gone up from 60 cents'to $4 a gallon, ergot has advanced from 30 cents to $2.25. There is a good stock of morphia sulphate, the chief ingredient of opium, in this country, but the price has risen from $4.50 to $5.50 per pound.