NEW TRIUMPHS OF CHEMISTRY

Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 12

NEW TRIUMPHS OF CHEMISTRY

ANOTHER RARE SCENT CAPTURED Although tho Chemists’ Exhibition melis as one might expect, exactly 'iko a chemist's-shop, there are more wonders in It than are to be met with ■i the ordinary pharmacy (reports the • Morning Post ’). Unfortunately the general public is not admitted, and it will have to wait for tho experience of testing some of tho new products, winch are both many and awesome.

Most prominent in the scheme of things are the multitudinous-perfumes. It might have horn thought that at this time of day there was no new scent to discover; yet at one stall 1 came across a delicate perfume that has been captured from a bush flower of Australia, bottled and _ brought to England for the first time. It is named boronia, and is already known in Paris and Now York. On view is a bottle of this scent enclosed in a casket made of she-cak and mounted with gold, which is intended for presentation to the Duchess of York by the Western Australian Government.

One does not ordinarily look to the chemist’s shop to provide for the dinner table. A new era in this direction seems to have been begun by the Hudson’s Bay Company, whose products, of course', are ail of natural extraction in the, regions of the Arctic At this stall was a now hors d’oeuvre, which, as its name, pate de raorue, suggests, is made from cod. It embodies the whole substance of fresh cod liver, and looks and tastes not unlike pate de foie gras. It is a delicatesse for which is claimed a medical as well as a dietetic value. From tho same fish has been prepared a paste, like beef extract, which can be used as a basis for soups, and a soluble protein, which, it is suggested, might make an excellent liqueur. One exhibit is a bottle’ containing the thyroid glands of the seal. These were introduced to England for the first time in the hope that they may become important to the medical profession, since the seal suffers front no known disease. Neither sportsmen nor animals have been forgotten by the chemists. Fertile former there is a new protecting personal perfume winch wards off the attack of mosquitoes and other pernicious insects, and for the latter a new vitamin product for racehorses. Tho value of Imps in lulling to sleep is used in some new orange-coloured tablets, which also contain extracts from valerian root.

Nor has the chemist’s art neglected to think out further soft drinks, which, it is stated, are coming more and more into favour.