University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
Classification
Pharmacy, General
Accession Number
1979.7.3 a-y
Description
Leather fold-up pouch (y) contains 23 glass vials with metal screw-on lids; vials have labels; there is a printed label inside the case; contents as abbreviated on labels: (a) Hydrag. Iod. Viride; (b) Morphinae Sulphae; (c) Neurologic; (d) Pulv. Ipecac et Opii; (e) Hydrag. Chlor. Mite Ipecac et Sod…
Label inside pouch reads, "Dr. D. E. Brooks // P.O. Box 37, // Windsor, Ont. Canada"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A6-6
Copy Type
Original
Reference Comments
Wikipedia
Research Facts
The H. K. Mulford Company was a pharmaceutical company founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in the late 1880s by Henry K. Mulford after his purchase of the Old Simes drugstore at 18th and Market Streets. The company was purchased by Sharp & Dohme Corp in 1929.
Henry Kendall Mulford (October 10, 1866 – October 15, 1937) was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Soon after purchasing the Old Simes retail pharmacy store, Mulford began producing and selling pharmaceutical preparations. In 1889, he received financial investment to expand operations from Milton Campbell. In 1891, Campbell became president of the company, with Mulford vice president. Milton patented a compressed tablet machine. By 1892 the company had two laboratories, a field office in Chicago, and produced 800 different products.
The company opened a laboratory in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1894 for the production of a diphtheria antitoxin. In 1895, it became the first commercial producer of diphtheria antitoxin in the United States.
Dr. Brooke practised in Newhamburg in 1887 and in Windsor in 1892.