$30.00 CAD
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1907 scarcer Canadian edition of pharmaceutical company guide.
Owner name stamped inside 'E.W. QUINTON --- WALTERS FALLS ONT.' Walter's Falls is located S.E. of Owen Sound.
Softcover. paper covers and a sewn binding.
288 pages + 84 page appendix that includes Wellcome brand products and price list;
Fair-Good condition. Some bleeding of edge red ink. Cover ceases, some folded corners of pages, some pages with toning/stains.
6 ½" x 4" x .5"
An alphabetical list of therapeutics (drugs), their uses, and their preparations; also an index of diseases and their remedies, a posological table, a list of poisons and their treatments and antidotes, British legal information, Irish legal information, a table of infectious diseases, their incubation periods, period of quarantine, period of infection, and what days the illness appears and begins to fade; the book also contains information on disinfection in phthisis, London ambulance service, diet tables, the feeding of children and infants, information on food and cooking, average weights and measurements of adult human organs, average weights and heights, the metric system of weights and measures, urine testing, water analysis, examination of sewage and sewage effluents, microscopic stains, indicators for chemical tests, notes on radiography, postal information for Canada utero-gestation, and Wellcome brand products and price list;
In 1880, Silas Burroughs and Henry Wellcome, two pharmaceutical salesmen from America, started a new company in London called Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. They used mass production and proactive marketing to sell remedies and medicines throughout the UK and territories colonised by the British, building the company’s reputation on scientific rigour.
Henry Wellcome became a wealthy and prominent figure in the growth of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
An alphabetical list of therapeutics (drugs), their uses, and their preparations; also an index of diseases and their remedies, a posological table, a list of poisons and their treatments and antidotes, British legal information, Irish legal information, a table of infectious diseases, their incubation periods, period of quarantine, period of infection, and what days the illness appears and begins to fade; the book also contains information on disinfection in phthisis, London ambulance service, diet tables, the feeding of children and infants, information on food and cooking, average weights and measurements of adult human organs, average weights and heights, the metric system of weights and measures, urine testing, water analysis, examination of sewage and sewage effluents, microscopic stains, indicators for chemical tests, notes on radiography, postal information for Canada utero-gestation, and Wellcome brand products and price list;
