Alepol brand sodium hydnocarpate / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

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<p>Advertising leaflet in English and French which was sent out "for the medical profession only" possibly in the 1930s. Alepol seems to have been launched in 1927 to combat leprosy, made from "the sodium salts of the lower melting-point fatty acids" of hydnocarpus oil, administered by injection.</p>

Alepol brand sodium hydnocarpate / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

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