Corporate DS/UK/3756 Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.; 1880-; pharmaceutical company Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. 1880- pharmaceutical company

Founded in 1880, in London, by the American pharmacists Henry Wellcome and Silas Burroughs. The company produced a wide range of compressed pharmaceutical products which were sold under a variety of brand names. The most important of these brand names was ‘Tabloid’, a word invented by Henry Wellcome and registered as a trademark in 1884. As well as medicines, the ‘Tabloid’ brand name was applied to various products such as photographic chemicals, first aid kits and tea.

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