Publication Date
1924
Type
Book
Language
ara,deu,eng,fra,mya,spa,tha,urd,zho
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Wellcome Collection museum and library
Record ID
rhndm9tn
Date
1924
Notes
Product literature and promotional material produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1924-1925.
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, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, Spain, France, Germany, Burma, Greece, Siam, USA and China.
The Guardbook offers a good indication of the range of Burroughs Wellcome & Co products on offer at the time, such as 'Hazeline' Cream and 'Hazeline' Snow, 'Kepler' Cod Liver Oil, 'Ozozo' 'Infundin', 'Empirin', 'Moogrol', 'Sketofax', 'Borofax', 'Paroleine', 'Vaporole Aromatic Ammonia, Wellcome branded Insulin and Wellcome photographic materials.
Also included are products sold under the 'Tabloid' and 'Soloid' brands, such as 'Tabloid' Tea, 'Tabloid' Iodicin, 'Tabloid' Digitalis Leaf, 'Tabloid' Vegetable Laxative, 'Tabloid' Quinine Products, 'Tabloid' Mixed Glands, Soloid Tolamine, Soloid 'Saline'.
These volumes also include notes on the Burroughs Wellcome & Co exhibit at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition and BW&Co produced booklets such as 'Hypodermic and Ophthalmic Medication'; 'Physiological Standardisation of Drugs'; 'Barley Malt Dietetic and Therapeutic Notes'; 'Humanised Milk for Infant Feeding'; ''Wellcome' Sera, Tuberculins and Vaccines'; 'Some Therapeutic Suggestions'; 'Photographic Signposts'; 'Veterinary Medicine'; 'Baby's Seven Stages'; 'Modern Organo-Therapy' therapeutic notes; 'Bismuth in the Treatment of Syphilis'; 'Standard Digitalis in Cardiology'; 'Wellcome' Adrenalin its Preparations and Uses' and 'Soloid' Microscopic Stains.
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 3 albums:
WF/M/GB/01/27/01:
pp1-86
WF/M/GB/01/27/02:
pp86-204
WF/M/GB/01/27/03:
pp206-308
Original index of Guardbook missing. | Catalogued by Ross MacFarlane | Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust | Greek
