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.