M0013157: "Forced march" tabloid box / M0013158: "Dry Anti-Streptococcus Serum" tube

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Left side of plate: Photograph of a "forced march" tabloid box, a brand created by Burroughs Wellcome & Co to 'allay hunger and prolong the power of endurance' containing a mixture of cocaine and caffeine. This image was included in Tansey, E.M.; 'Pills, Profits and propriety: the early pharmaceutical industry in Britain', <i>Pharmaceutical historian</i>, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1995. Right side of plate: Photograph of a "Dry Anti-Streptococcus Serum" tube prepared at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, in or before 1897.

M0013157: "Forced march" tabloid box / M0013158: "Dry Anti-Streptococcus Serum" tube

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