A chapter in criticism : practical chemists and therapeutical critics.
- Condy, Henry Bollmann.
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A chapter in criticism : practical chemists and therapeutical critics. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![whatever, and only an unim- unknown permanganate ” [in portant residual quantity of other phraseology, to Mr, potash enter. That prepara- Condy’s word], tion is asolutiou of an entirely different salt, which has never been made for sale but by me, and which, moreover, has properties (one of which is comparative tastelessness) possessed by no other per- jnanganate with which I am acquainted.” Now, Sir, with these two statements in juxtaposition before you to refresh your memory, will you oblige me with, unequivocal answers to the following questions :— 1. Do you know, of your own knowledge, that one of the first analysts in this country did really analytically examine and report to you upon Condy’s Ozonised Water? 2. Are you prepared to produce the report of the said analyst when called upon so to do? 3. Arc you willing to give up his name ? Yours obediently. If. B. CONDY. Battersea, Xovemher, 1870. P.S.—I cannot bring myself to pass over without comment one other point. In reply to my argument, in favour of the prices of Condy’s Fluid, that they have been fixed in accordance with the principles which regulate the prices of proprietary articles in general, you say, Mr. Condy maintains that a trader has a right to make what profits he can.” Now I did not say this, nor could it have occurred to me to say anything so puerile. The rights of traders were not in discussion. What I did maintain was that Condy’s Fluid, in so far as it is sold at a good margin of gross profit, was no exception among proprietary articles, supposing, as 4 i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22308775_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
