Circulars Book 23

Date:
1916-1921
Reference:
WF/M/GB/01/24
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Product literature and promotional material produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1916-1921.

Including separate circulars, advertising material, price lists and supporting literature (such as therapeutic notes) on BW&Co products, for markets across the world, including the UK, China, Burma, India, Portugal, France, Greece, Spain, Italy and Persia.

The Guardbook offers a good indication of the range of Burroughs Wellcome & Co products on offer at the time, such as 'Vana' Tonic Wine, 'Wellcome' Brand Chloroform, 'Hazeline' Snow, 'Kepler' Malt Extract, 'Enule' Rectal Suppositories, 'Hypoloid' Ideal Hypodermic Doses, 'Soamin', 'Wellcome' Toilet Lanoline, 'Lubafax', 'Infundin', 'Bivo' Beef and Iron Wine, 'Hazeline' Cream, 'Laxamel' and 'Saxin'.

Also included are products sold under the 'Tabloid' and 'Soloid' brands, such as 'Tabloid' Tea, 'Tabloid' Photographic Chemicals, 'Soloid' Brand Microscopic Stains, 'Tabloid' Blaud Pill, 'Tabloid' Laxative Products, 'Tabloid' Quinine Products, 'Tabloid' Hexamine, 'Tabloid' Aspirin, 'Tabloid' Empirin and 'Tabloid' Pastilles.

These volumes also include advertisements warning of imitation of BW&Co products. Also BW&Co produced booklets such as 'Constipation: A Summary of its Causes and Treatments', 'The Question of Infant Feeding', 'Animal Substances in Medicine', 'Ernutin Science Applied to Ergot', 'The Easy Way for Photographers', 'Precise Cardiac Therapy', 'Genito-Urinary Therapeutics', 'Physiologically Standardised Tinctures', 'Antiseptic Solutions', 'Sure Photography', 'Barley Malt as a Nutrient',

The volume has been conserved, items have been removed from the original Guardbook 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 4 albums:

WF/M/GB/01/23/01:
pp1-54
WF/M/GB/01/23/02:
pp55-121
WF/M/GB/01/23/03:
pp122-176
WF/M/GB/01/23/04:
pp177-266

Publication/Creation

1916-1921

Physical description

1 item

Copyright note

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

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