'Alepol' brand sodium hydnocarpate : for the medical profession only / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

  • Burroughs Wellcome & Company
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[between 1930 and 1939?]
  • Ephemera
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'Alepol' brand sodium hydnocarpate : for the medical profession only / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Advertising leaflet in English and French which was sent out "for the medical profession only" possibly in the 1930s. Alepol seems to have been launched in 1927 to combat leprosy, made from "the sodium salts of the lower melting-point fatty acids" of hydnocarpus oil, administered by injection.

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London : Burroughs Wellcome & Cie, [between 1930 and 1939?]

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1 folded sheet ; 17 cm

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"ref. 644 (E/F) 46.4.2"

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    EPH/296/8

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