arance.

THIRD FLOOR.

On this floor are the Association's extensive printing and binding
works. Fourteen large presses, driven by power, with numerous folding
machines, trimming, cutting, and stitching machinery, are constantly
running in this department. Here is printed and bound Dr. Pierce's
popular work of over a thousand pages, denominated "The People's Common
Sense Medical Adviser," over 1,200,000 copies of which have been sold.
Millions of pocket memorandum books, pamphlets, circulars and cards are
also issued from this department and scattered broadcast to every
quarter of the globe.

FOURTH FLOOR.

Large mills for crushing, grinding and pulverizing roots, barks, herbs,
and other drugs occupy a considerable part of this floor. Extensive
drying-rooms, in which articles to be ground in the drug mills are
properly dried, are also located upon this floor, as are also thousands
of reams of paper ready for printing the different books, pamphlets,
labels, etc. In large rooms set aside for that purpose, are stored vast
quantities of labels and wrappers, for use in putting up medicines.

FIFTH FLOOR.

On this floor is located ingeniously devised filling and bottling
machinery, also rooms for labeling, wrapping, and packing medicines;
others are occupied for the storage of crude drugs, glass, corks, and
supplies for use in the general business.

SIXTH FLOOR.

This entire floor is occupied with mixing, percolating, distilling,
filtering, and other processes employed in the manufacturing of
medicines. Every process is conducted under the watchful care of an
experienced chemist and pharmacist, and in the most perfect and orderly
manner; the apparatus employed being of the most approved character.
Here are manufactured all the various medicinal preparations and
compounds prescribed by the Faculty, in the treatment of special cases.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.

[Illustration: Section of Chemical Laboratory.--World's Dispensary.]

In all departments of this vast business establishment, the visitor is
struck with the perfect system which everywhere prevails, and the
wonderful accuracy with which every process and transaction is carried
on and consummated; hence the uniformity of purity and strength for
which the medicines here manufactured have so long been celebrated. To
this, also, is due much of the marvelous success attained in the
department established for the special treatment of chronic and