title: Letters from S M Burroughs: the birth of a worldwide pharmaceutical enterprise.
abstract: Letters from Silas Burroughs to his junior partner Henry Wellcome and other business associates have recently come to light Written during his travels (1880-1882) soon after the establishment of their pharmaceutical company, the letters show how this energetic, resourceful and imaginative salesman developed and expanded the business overseas and tackled the problems of preservation, packaging and marketing of medicines in tropical countries.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine.
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Goodwin
mesh_terms: D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history*; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D014481:United States