'Insulin Manufacturers'; general correspondence file about insulin

General B.I.M notes, minutes and correspondence, mostly to or from Mr. Grodon Oakes, Distribution Manager.

Includes; correspondence on insulin policy, export of solid insulin, and insulin production including the new insulin extraction process and the method for the process of getting crystalline insulin from pancreas using alcoholic-phosphoric acid extraction, correspondence about imported pancreas, insulin labelling, and sales overseas including South Africa and Argentina, correspondence on tendering for insulin, correspondence regarding the Toronto Insulin Committee, insulin testing and research on mice, and Boots being affected by enemy action, correspondence about import licensing, insulin advertising, and obtaining wartime insulin supplies from America, copy of the article entitled "The Manufacture of Insulin: A Great British Industry" from The Chemist & Druggist Export Review (January 1949), correspondence on insulin prices and a report on home sales figures of the B.I.M.

Possibly created by a Mr. Oakes.

(Green 'Binelace' file)