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Burroughs Wellcome & Company

Burroughs Wellcome & Co. was a pharmaceutical firm founded in 1880 by Americans Henry Wellcome and Silas Burroughs.

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Images by Burroughs Wellcome & Company

307 images from works
  • Ancilostomose : "O grande problema parasitológico humano das regiões tropicais..." / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
  • 'Alepol' brand sodium hydnocarpate : for the medical profession only / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • Otosporin drops : to soothe and clear the infected ear : Otosporin drops.
  • Cough suppression with decongestion : ...'Actifed' Compound Linctus.
  • Summer is icumen in... : 'B.W. & Co.' antihistamines for hay-fever.
  • 'Wellcome' Chloroform : when chloroform is the anaesthetic of choice, 'Wellcome' brand Chloroform should always be employed.
  • Beats the lot : beats the lot - kills bacteria in surface infections : 'Cortisporin'.
  • The modern answer to ancylostomiasis and ascariasis : Alcopar dispersable granules, the proven treatment for hookworm / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
  • Ancilostomose : "O grande problema parasitológico humano das regiões tropicais..." / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Images featuring Burroughs Wellcome & Company

34 images from works
  • Letter from Herbert Ponting to BW&Co
  • Japanese trade mark certificate for Hazeline
  • A pharmacy sign advertising Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s
  • Burroughs Wellcome exhibition, 1911.
  • Two men in a car outside the Wellcome pharmaceutical depot in the Middle East. Photograph.
  • Medicine chest supplied to Shackleton Expedition
  • Burroughs Wellcome exhibition, 1911.
  • Advertisement for insulin, Burroughs Wellcome, 1930
  • Tabloid brand product descriptions
  • Hazeline Snow window display in a shop in Argentina

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Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
Henry Solomon Wellcome
British Medical Association
William J. Eccles
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
London
Anthelmintics
Antinematodal Agents
Advertising
Ancylostomiasis
Bephenium Compounds
History of Medicine
Ascariasis