Circulars Book 18

Product literature and promotional material produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1912-1913.

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, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Russia, India (flyers in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil), France, Greece, China, Armenia and Burma.

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, 'Vana' Tonic Wine, 'Bivo' Beef and Iron Wine, 'Kepler' Solution, 'Kepler' Malt Extract, 'Borofax', 'Wellcome' Exposure Calculator, 'Epinine', 'Soamin', 'Hazeline' Rose Frost and 'Vaporole' Ammonium Chloride Inhaler.

Also included are products sold under the 'Tabloid' and 'Soloid' brands, such as 'Tabloid' Blaud Pill, 'Tabloid' Tea, 'Tabloid' Pleated Compressed Sanitary Towels, 'Tabloid' Cascara products, 'Tabloid' Chromium Intensifier, 'Soloid' Blood Test Case, 'Tabloid' First Aid Kit No. 711 ("The Mountaineer"), 'Soloid' Water Analysis Case, 'Wellcome' Brand Chloroform, 'Soloid' Urine Test Case and 'Tabloid' Adjustable Head Dressing.

The volumes also contain BW&Co produced booklets amd leaflets such as 'Directions for Using 'Wellcome' Brand Tuberculins', 'Colour Effects by Staining Photographs', 'Directions for Using 'Wellcome' Tetanus Antitoxic Serum', 'Famous Airmen and their Equipments', 'New Light on Old Problems', 'Scouts of the Air', 'Illustrations of Tabloid Medicine Chests and Cases', 'The BW&Co All-Glass Aseptic Hypodermic Syringe', 'Serum Therapy with Notes on Vaccines and Tuberculins', Blotting Card and Bookmark (showiing the BW&Co Exhbition Room, Wigmore Street), 'A Reliable Haematinic', 'A Simple Method of Feeding Infants', 'Historical Medical Exhibition, London, 1913', 'Modern Medical Equipments', 'Tuberculins - Notes on their Preparation and Use' and 'Helps and Hindrances in Photography'.

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 2 albums:

WF/M/GB/01/19/01:
pp1-124
WF/M/GB/01/19/02:
pp125-236

1912-1913

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