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Recently, when searching the TROVE Scotland archive, I came across this old diary from 1899: Curious about the patient stories shared by the ‘World’s Dispensary Medical Association’ I decided to … Continue reading WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
For a comprehensive account of Doan’s Pills please follow this link. The following summary is based on this account. Doan’s Kidney pills, invented by the Canadian pharmacologist James Doan (1846-1916) … Continue reading DOAN’S PILLS
Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as … Continue reading Flooded the English speaking world with their advertisements
I came across this advertisement when doing research for a film that I am making. The advert is for ZAM-BUK and was printed in the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 September … Continue reading EVERY EDINBORO’ HOME
Marketing should have no place in science. The origins of a multi-national pharmaceutical company: To play a short film on GORDON’s EXTRACT please click here or on the image above.
An advert from March 1899: January 1915, Portsmouth Evening News: 17 October 1905, Ottawa Free Press: Fulford Place, Brockeville, Home of the Fulford family: Fulford Place, Brockeville, Home of the … Continue reading ‘Pink Pills for Pale People’