| Analyses For... Physicians | By the Analytic Laboratories of Merck & Co. New York |
Examinations of Water, Milk, Blood, Urine, Sputum, Pus, Food Products, Beverages, Drugs, Minerals, Coloring Matters, etc., for diagnostic, prophylactic, or other scientific purposes.
All analyses at these Laboratories are so conducted as to assure the best service attainable on the basis of the latest scientific developments. The laboratories are amply supplied with a perfect quality of reagent materials, and with the most efficient constructions of modern apparatus and instruments. The probable cost for some of the most frequently needed researches is approximately indicated below:
| Sputum, for tuberculosis bacilli, | $ | 3.00 |
| Urine, for tuberculosis bacilli, | 3.00 | |
| Milk, for tuberculosis bacilli, | 3.00 | |
| Urine, qualitative, for one constituent, | 1.50 | |
| Urine, qualitative, for each additional constituent, | 1.00 | |
| Urine, quantitative, for each constituent, | 3.00 | |
| Urine, sediment, microscopical, | 1.50 | |
| Blood, for ratio of white to red corpuscles, | 2.00 | |
| Blood, for Widal's typhoid reaction, | 2.00 | |
| Water, for general fitness to drink, | 10.00 | |
| Water, for typhoid germs, | 25.00 | |
| Water, quantitative determination of any one constituent, | 10.00 | |
| Pus, for gonococci, | 3.00 |
The cost for other analyses—more variable in scope—can only be given upon closer knowledge of the requirements of individual cases.
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