Souvenir map and guide to London : seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, May, 1909.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Souvenir map and guide to London : seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, May, 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![When I think [said the late Sir H. M. Stanley, in the course of one of his lectures] of the dreadful mortality of j Capt. Tuckey's Expedition in 1816, of the Niger expedi- Expedition in 1841, of the sufferings of Burton and Mortality Speke, and of my own first two expeditions, I am crud? amazed to find that much of the mortality and sick- medicines ness was due t0 ^e crude way in which medicines were supplied to travellers. The very recollection causes me to shudder. One of the 'Tabloid' Brand Medicine Chests carried by the late Sir H. M. Stanley through Darkest Africa, and brought back, after three years' journey, with the remaining contents unimpaired. That a very marked change has taken place can be gathered from a more recent speech of this eminent explorer, in which he said : — In my early expeditions into Africa, there was one secret wish which endured with me always, and that was to ameliorate the miseries of African explorers. How it was to be done I knew not; who was B.W.&Co. to do it, I did not know. But I made the acquaintance of solved the Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome & Co. As soon as I came problem . , , . , _ - , in sight of their preparations and their works, I found the consummation of my secret wish. On my later expeditions I had all the medicines that were required for my black men, as well as my white men, beautifully prepared, and in most elegant fashion arranged in the smallest medicine chest it was ever my lot to carry into Africa.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456724_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
