Description: RARE EARLY 1900s WELLCOME PILL BOTTLE. THE BOTTLE IS EMBOSSED ON SIDE B.W. & CO WHICH IS FOR BURROUGHS WELLCOME AND TABLOID. Apparently tabloid was patented by Wellcome in late 1884. Silas Burroughs and Henry Wellcome were Americans who started a new company in London Borroughs, Wellcome & Co. They marketed throughout the UK and other territories under the British. Source BWFUND>ORGSilas Burroughs and Henry Wellcome, both of whom were educated in the United States and had represented U.S. drug companies in the United Kingdom, recognized that a revolution then taking place in the American pharmaceutical business offered great opportunity for expansion and success abroad. This revolution, which had originated in England but was finding its fullest expression in the United States, centered on the development of “compressed” medicines–pills–that could be mass-produced and packaged for wide and rapid distribution. Because they delivered standardized, reproducible dosages, these new tablet formulations were viewed as being safer and more effective than the common potions and powders of the day.The two men formed their partnership in London in 1880, and their enterprise–known as Burroughs Wellcome and Co.–prospered. After Silas Burroughs died in 1895, Henry Wellcome directed the growth of the company into an international network, with notable expansion in the first two decades of the 20th century. New subsidiaries were opened on several continents and in numerous countries, including the United States. As the business grew, Wellcome held firm to his strong belief that research was basic to the development of excellent pharmaceutical products–a belief he put into practice by establishing the industry’s first research laboratories.
Price: 20 USD
Location: Flat Top, West Virginia
End Time: 2024-03-16T18:45:01.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Color: Brown
Bottle Type: Medicines & Cures
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
