M0013157: "Forced march" tabloid box / M0013158: "Dry Anti-Streptococcus Serum" tube
- Date:
- October 1953
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Left side of plate: Photograph of a "forced march" tabloid box, a brand created by Burroughs Wellcome & Co to 'allay hunger and prolong the power of endurance' containing a mixture of cocaine and caffeine. This image was included in Tansey, E.M.; 'Pills, Profits and propriety: the early pharmaceutical industry in Britain', Pharmaceutical historian, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1995. Right side of plate: Photograph of a "Dry Anti-Streptococcus Serum" tube prepared at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, in or before 1897.
Publication/Creation
October 1953
Physical description
1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item Open.
Copyright note
Copyright held by Wellcome Collection
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.
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Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
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