Circulars

Date:
1884-1891
Reference:
WF/M/GB/01/01
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Product literature and promotional material, mostly produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co (BW&Co), 1884-1891.

The advertising material contained in these volumes covers BW&Co's growth from a firm licensed to sell the pharmaceutical products of other companies, to a manufacturing concern in its own right.

Included are BW&Co product lists and price lists; BW&Co produced 'Medical Ready Reference Books' (for the medical profession) and reprints of articles from established medical publications (such as the British Medical Journal) advocating certain BW&Co products.

Some of the BW&Co brands for which material exists herein, include: Forced March, Voice Tabloids, Hazeline, Lanoline, Kepler and Strophanthus; as well as material on the different brands of bottled water on the market. Also included are early examples of letters from BW&Co Travelling Salesmen; a 'Report on the Exhibit of Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome & Co at the Sanitary Exhibition, Bolton, 1887' (reprint from the Sanitary record) and copies of Progress in Pharmacy, 1st January 1888 and Successful Pharmacy, 1st January 1889, which give detailed descriptions of the company.

To indicate the company's awareness of overseas markets, some of the advertisements are in Spanish and there is also material on the Australian market for BW&Co's products

The volume has been conserved, items have been removed from the original guard books and remounted in sleeves and ringbinders. This enables researchers to easily read items (front and reverse) without damage to the original. The original order has been retained.

Due to the size of the original Guardbook it has been split into 3 albums.

WF/M/GB/01/01/01:
pp1-108
WF/M/GB/01/01/02:
pp109-184
WF/M/GB/01/01/03:
pp185-274

Items indexed alphabetically by product, with page numbers (copy typed from original index):

Antipyrine 195, 207
Axioms 118
Almanack Pages 126
Argus Printing & Publishing Co 171
Antiseptic Treatment of Consumption 214
Apomorphine 220
Aristol 264
Allen & Hanbury 268

Buffalo Lithia Water 23-28
Business Card 37, 46
Bishop 65-66, 76
Best Pepsin 118
Bonnington, George 157
Bellman, Max 170
Broms Caffeine 174
Boyd White & Co 210
British Medical Food Company 226
Bayer & Co 254
Brigonmet & Naville 258

Condensed List of Products 78
Colgate & Co 117
Combination Circular 119
Carbolic Smoke Ball 145
Chlorine de Methyle 145, 147
Chemistry 157 Cocoa Jelly 170
Coca 179
Capsule Pills 179
Congo Chest 181
Cream of Malt 183
Schafer, Emil, 184
Cocoanut Butter 187

Digestive Enzymes 12
Doctors & Chemists 91
Dr Knorr's Antipyrine Dermatine 220
Dithiosalicylic Acid 230
Dictmenens Facilitatives 234
Dee Oil 239, 240, 241, 242
Diwetin 259

Edernia 143
Exhibition Circulars 146
Extract of Milk 171
Emery Wheels 188
Exalgine 258

Florida Water 21, 211
Fairchild 70, 221, 258
Foot's Circular 186
Foot, R G & Co 188
Franklin Mills Co 196-199
French Circulars 203, 204, 205
Ferris & Co 220

Gelatine Coated Pills 179
Granula 189, 191, 193
Garton & Co 211
Glaisyer & Kemp 173, 271

Hazeline 47, 71
Hypodermic Medication Books 56, 164
Hydrastamine 238
Heron, F C 261, 262
Helbing's Pharmaceutical Record 270, 272

Invoices 11
Inhaler Pamphlets 58
Inhaler 105, 208, 213
India Rubber Plasters 172
Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australiasia 200
Influenza Pamphlet 244
Icthyol 255, 256

Japanese handkerchiefs 67-68
Jahncke's Patent Metallic Boxes 201, 274

Kepler Solution 116
Kepler Extract of Malt 163, 221, 223/4
Kuhn 83, 167
Kearsby & Mattison 174
Kirby & Co 225, 266
Kronenquelle Water 246
Kuhn B & Co 253
Knoll & Co 259

List of Preparations (for S Africa 15)
Lanoline 37, 48, 49, 80, 111, 112, 212, 260
Lucius & Bruning 97
Lundberg 117, 142, 143
List of New Pharmaceutical Products 139
Lorimer & Co 170
Liquid Extracts 218
Lano-Crenolin 229
Lowenstein L & H 251

Ohio Railway 212

Precio-Corrient y Codico Telegraphico 14
Pharmaceutical Improvements 73
Price Lists 81, 82, 95, 120, 124, 222, 251
Progress in Pharmacy 89, 91
Pinol (Burroughs) 91
Peterson, Hugo 101
Pharmaceutical Products 103
Peptonised Milk 116, 150
Prescription Book 164
Permanent Enamel Sign Co 119
Pocket Case 171
Phenacetin Bayer 172, 254
Progress in Pharmacy (Spanish) 172, 254
Pill-prescriptions for travelling Mc K & R 177
Papain 178, 253
Patents, Designs & Trade Marks 182
Philadelphia Carpet Trade 210
Paris Exhibition 215
Permanganate of Potash 235
Pomies, E - On Diseases of the Eye 237
Pigott Bros 246

Quinine 136

Recent Reports 7/8
Reduced Prices 106
Reprints from the Chemist and Druggist 141, 142
Redpath Lyceum Magazine 209

Sundry Preparations:

- Warner Preparations 2
- Mineral Wool 5
- Tebbs Chilblain Cure 6
- Invitations Circulars 6
- Voschano Caucasine 13
- Heron's Lemon Squash 22
- Ayer's American Almanack 29
- Lundberg 31
- Everest 32-3
- Fitch's Scales 34-5
- Atkinson's Perfumes 50
- Savory & Moore 52
- Brownen's Lamels 53
- Mother Seigel's Syrup 55
- Lorimer & Co 56, 89
- Hoff's Malt Extract 69
- Huggett's Hypodermic Solutions 74
- Papaw Milk & Papeine 79
- Dickmann & Co 83
- Hillgaze Co 89
- Dr Knorr's Antipyrine 97-9, 150
- Deelinea Oleum- 102
- Enoe Charcoal "Dotlete" 104
- Hatschek, M 107
- Christie, Carlos J 108, 127, 128
- G & G Stern's Steam Inhaler 110
- Morel's Gas Generator 113
- Bush's Fluid Food, Bovine 115, 119
- Herbert & Hubbard, Pill Picking Machine 121
- Barclay & Sons 122
- H & T Kirby & Co's Piloids ("A Substitute for Children's Powders") 125, 140
- W H Schieffelin & Co ("A New Treatise on Salol") 130
- Salol 129
- Stearns & Co, Frederick 132
- Mach, Joseph 135-6
- Carbolic Smoke Ball Co 138
- Sociedad Anonima 154
- Buines Aires Dairy Co 153, 155
- Uppenheim Bros & Co 183
Strophanthus 10, 57
Spanish Circular 16, 18
Short Notes on Pharmaceutical Agents 72
Saccharin Letters 84
Saccharin Tabloids 92
Saccharin 109, 180
Skin Treatments 118
Sulphonal Reidal 133, 138
Sulphonal Bayer 178, 192, 254
Shepperson, W (Travelling Agent for BW&Co) 116, 118, 156, 158, 159, 160, 165, 175, 216
Swiss Milk Co 161
Special Note 168
Seabury & Johnson 172
Similair N K 184
Schlinich Dr 187
Successful Pharmacy 190
Salol 194
Spanish Circulars 202
Stevens Corwin y Cia Price List 222
Salvo Petrolia 241-2

Terebene 1
Traveller Circulars (got up by) 19, 30, 39-46, 57, 59-63, 64, 70, 75
Travellers Letters 77
Tablet Triturates 115
Tabloids 221
Tablet Machine 250
Trional 254
Tetronal 254

Upjohn Pill & Granule Co 171, 177

Visiting List (French) 88
Verdict 118
Valley of Orotava 206

Wrappers 54, 85
Wyeth Tablets 71, 73
Wyeth's Liquid Malt Extract 113
Wheeler Chemical Works 149
Williams & Robinson 166
White's Physiological Mannikin 176
Wyleys & Co 179
Wilson Salamon & Co 180
Wheatlet 196-199
Worcester Exhibition 227

Publication/Creation

1884-1891

Physical description

3 items

Notes

Page 32 - Great advert for Forced March, speaking about its uses for Sport (bicycling, rowing, football) etc etc

Copyright note

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

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