Press Cuttings, 1971

Including cuttings from overseas newspapers re award to Wellcome Reagents of the 1970 Queen's Award for Technological Achievements; cuttings from French newspapers re launch by Wellcome of Eusaprim; cuttings from local and national newspapers relating to Wellcome Medical Folklore calendar (much focus on the cure from Irish folklore for rheumatism of dipping the afflicted part of the body in water collected in the holes of ancient "bullan" stones); also reports on developments by overseas branches of the Wellcome firm, such as BW&Co Australia's sterile unit and the formation of subsidary Nippon Wellcome Co Ltd in Japan; news of Wellcome staff appointments (such as the appointment of A.A. Gray as Chairman of the Wellcome Foundation, succeeding Michael Perrin) and retirements (such as the retirement of A.N. Falder, Personnel Director); press reports on a fall in Wellcome Foundation profits and Wellcome Trust funding; news of the acquisition by Wellcome of the Macdonald group of companies (manufacturers of of surgical dressings) and reports of Wellcome products (Marzine and Neosporin) being takne on board USA's Apollo 14 space mission.

1971

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