Sets of Instruments will be sent to our customers on approval if desired.
CHAPTER XVII.
Caution to be used in Storing and Keeping the Preservative.
It is of the greatest importance that the Preservative be kept entirely free from mixture with any other substance, as, owing to the peculiar combination of the chemicals used in the process of its manufacture, an addition of even a small portion of any foreign substances, especially any of the Arsenical Solutions sometimes used for embalming purposes, will completely change its character and destroy some of its most valuable properties.
We call particular attention to this matter as we have more than once traced up the cause for a complaint of the quality of some particular shipment of the Preservative to the fact that the customer has had one or more kinds of “fluid” on hand and in some careless moment has emptied back some little left over, into the package containing our Preservative to its very great injury. Even keeping the Preservative in wood totally destroys its efficiency as an Embalming preparation and therefore it should never under contingency be kept in wooden packages. It should always be kept in the glass packages in which it is shipped, or in some other glass vessel.
Every package that is sent out is exactly like every other package in regard to the quality of the Preservative it contains, and its contents will never deteriorate in any length of time it may be kept providing that no other substance be added.
APPENDIX.
To our Customers:
We have appended to the foregoing treatise on Embalming some few of the letters we are constantly receiving from our customers, giving their unbiassed opinion of the merits of the Excelsior Preservative, entirely unsolicited on our part and without the least idea of publication on the part of the writers.
To such of our good friends and customers who find such an expression from themselves printed in this book, we ask pardon for the publicity given to their letters, trusting that the good company in which they will find themselves, among the leading members of their profession, will be our best excuse for the liberty we have ventured to take.