'Tabloid' guide to medical and first-aid equipments / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

  • Burroughs Wellcome & Company
Date:
[1937?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 'Tabloid' guide to medical and first-aid equipments / Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/76 page 16
    POLAR EXPLORATION Ingthe= annaissot “Polarsexplortions. [ABT Om: Medical Equipments hold a unique distinction. They were Furst, Second and Third at the North Pole and WITT SE Old eS CLO meee er OUth gel om, bead A BAO 1s Medical Equipments were the only medical outfits actually carried to the Poles by Peary, Amundsen and Scott. Among other famous investigators of the Arctic and Antarctic who carried “TABLOID” Medical Equipments may be mentioned Nansen, Stefansson, Shackleton, Byrd and Wilkins. In connexion with Nansen’s achievements in the Arctic, Amundsen and others have testified that, although Nansen himself never reached the Pole, he laid the groundwork for the success of Peary in the north and Amundsen in the south. In his Expedition of 1893-96, he got as far as 86° 14’ north. His ship, the fram, afterwards used by Amundsen, was built under his personal supervision, and from it many others learned how to construct vessels that would withstand the tremendous pressure of the ice. Nansen, in all his attempts at the Pole, carried with him a ‘TABLOID’ Medicine Chest. ‘hesexploitseoreVdmiita] Si eee year ere too well known to recount here in detail. | = His first important contribution to Polar kK knowledge was the proof that Greenland is an | island. Then he established the fact that the Polar icescapsextendssnotartherethaleoc, north. He also settled rumours of rich iron deposits in the Arctic by discovering the lode to be a meteorite—the largest known. Six times Peary attempted what is curiously called a ‘‘dash’’ to the Pole, and six times he was beatentback= “fF imally,.on SeptemmberG/ aL909: the world learned that Peary had actually reached the Pole on April 6 of that year. Oneporsine, eight = tibes cor UAB LOLD.e ees products carried by Peary to the North Pole :tapicia: was presented by the explorer to Burroughs Products WeNcome & Co. on his return. In a report commander forwarded from Etah, Greenland, Peary Peary to the NorR?Ts Por wrote: “Burroughs Wellcome d+ Co.'s
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3