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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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    The Chemistry of Health

    • 1941

    Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company featuring an image of a young girl on a seesaw. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products, including vitamins, fumigation, waste disposal,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Public health, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Children in advertising, Advertising, Industrial
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    The Zest of Winter Brings the Glow of Health!

    • Advertisement for Dow pharmaceutical chemicals
    • 1941

    Color print advertisement for pharmaceutical chemicals produced by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a photographic reproduction of two children skiing. Accompanying text describes how "the advances…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Dow Chemical Company, Advertising, Chemical industry, Corporations, Aspirin industry, Aspirin, Chloroform, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Drugs, Children in advertising, Advertising, Industrial

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