Dressel, Dr, and 'Bayer 205'

Laboratory notebook, copybook of reports, patent applications relating to the development of compounds in the Bayer 205 series, c.1914-c.1923.

1914-1923

1 box

These items were originally presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by the Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft via Dr J H A Wilpert, in or about June 1956, along with two specimens of 'Bayer 205' which have not been found. In 1982 during the process of transferring the contents of the Wellcome Museum to the Science Museum and elsewhere the items below were found by Richard de Peyer, the Transfer officer, in the strong room of the Wellcome Museum, and were handed to him to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

It has not been possible to discover any biographical information about Dressel; one can assume on internal evidence that he was an employee of Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft involved in research into new drugs.