The Book is a Weapon (10)
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December 7, 2009
This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British pharmaceuticals company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. During the early 20th century, the catch-phrase “Weapons of Precision” helped sell BWC’s medicine chests to British colonists; during WWI, when BWC produced quantities of tetanus antitoxins, anti-gas gangrene sera, and typhoid vaccines for the Western Front, this dubious analogy no doubt seemed less far-fetched.
Tenth in an occasional series.