Henry Wellcome

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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS (August 21, 1853 - July 25, 1936) is a pharmaceutical entrepreneur of the United States. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & amp; The company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880, who was one of four major companies to finally join to form GlaxoSmithKline. In addition, he left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will, which was used to form the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest medical charities. He is a collector of sharp medical artefacts (Wellcome Collection).

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Biography

Wellcome was born in a wooden cabin on the border that later became Almond, Wisconsin, became Reverend S. C. Wellcome, a traveling missionary who preached on a covered train, and Mary Curtis Wellcome. He had an early interest in medicine, especially marketing. His first product, at the age of 16, was an invisible ink (actually just lemon juice), which he advertised on the Garden City (MN) Herald . He grew up with a strict religious upbringing, especially with regard to the movement of simplicity. His father was a strong member of the Second Adventist Church. He is a freemason.

Executive pharmacy

In 1880, Wellcome founded a pharmaceutical company, Burroughs Wellcome & amp; The company, with his partner Silas Mainville Burroughs. They introduced the sale of drugs in tablet form to the UK under the 1884 trademark "Tabloid". Previously, drugs have been widely sold as powder or liquid. Burroughs and Wellcome also introduced direct marketing to doctors, giving them free samples. In 1895, Burroughs died, 48 years old, leaving the company in the hands of his colleague, Wellcome. The company is growing and Wellcome established several research laboratories associated with drug companies. In 1924, Wellcome consolidated all of its commercial and non-commercial activities in one of its holding companies, The Wellcome Foundation Ltd .

In 1901, Wellcome married Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, a founding daughter of Thomas John Barnardo orphanage. They had one child, Henry Mounteney Wellcome, born 1903, who was sent to nurture a parent at about three years of age. He was considered sick at the time, and his parents spent a lot of time traveling. The marriage was unhappy, and in 1909 the couple split up. After that Syrie (as she knows it) has some affairs, including with millionaire department store Harry Gordon Selfridge, and writer William Somerset Maugham with whom he had a child (Mary Elizabeth) and later married. Wellcome sued for divorce in 1915, calling Maugham one of the respondents. The lawsuit attracted a large amount of publicity that he had previously tried to avoid. Syrie has never contested Henry's custody of their son, Henry.

In 1910, Wellcome became the subject of England. He became knighted in 1932. In 1932, he became an Honorary Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He died of pneumonia at The London Clinic in 1936, 82, after surgery. At his death, the Wellcome Trust was established.

Legacy

In his will, Wellcome surrenders all of his company's share capital to each guardian, charged with spending his income on human and animal health further. The Wellcome Trust is now one of the largest private biomedical charities in the world.

The first biography of Wellcome was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust in 1939, by A.W. Haggis, a staff member at the Wellcome Wellcome Medicine Museum has been established. However, the Watchdogs were dissatisfied with the final draft of 1942, and the biography was never published, although the draft was available free of charge for consultation at the Wellcome Library.

Wellcome Biography was written by Robert Rhodes James and published in 1994. In 2009, Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Gathered the World, written by Frances Larson, published by Oxford University Press, after both papers personal and business Wellcome has been cataloged.

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Trust Wellcome

After the death of Wellcome, income from the Foundation, initially through dividends, then through a more efficient tax treaty agreement, is used to fund the Wellcome Trust, providing endowments for the pharmacology department to educate and train future researchers. After changes in UK charity law, the Foundation is sold to GSK and receipts are invested in a broad portfolio. The Trust then became the largest charity in the UK, providing funding for focus areas such as biomedical science, technology transfer, public engagement, and bioethics. Grants and scholarships are available to beneficiaries with the goal of translating research into usable health products. The current guardianship spends more than $ 600 million per year in medical research training.

In 1955, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) was established as a branch of the Wellcome pharmaceutical company in the US; in 1993, a $ 400 million prize from the Wellcome Trust enabled BWF to become fully independent of the company, and became an independent private research biomedical foundation based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

The new program started by the Wellcome Trust includes the creation of a research training program for physicians who want to pursue a career in academic medicine, whose belief began in October 2010. Also today, the foundation supports doctors research to develop treatments for obesity using natural appetite suppression..

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Collection

Wellcome has a passion for collecting medically related artifacts, which aims to create the Human Museum. She buys for any drug-related collection, including Napoleon's toothbrush, which is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection. At the time of his death there were 125,000 medical objects in the collection, more than a million total. Most of the non-medical objects were scattered after his death. He is also a keen archaeologist, especially digging for years in Jebel Moya, Sudan, employing 4000 people to be excavated. He was one of the first investigators to use aerial photography of kites on archaeological sites, with surviving images available at the Wellcome Library.

Parts of the Wellcome collection have been exhibited at Science Museum, London, since 1976, and in the Wellcome Collection as a "Medicine Man" exhibition since 2007. Books, paintings, pictures, photos and other media are available for viewing at the Wellcome Library. In 2003, Quay Brothers directed a short animated film as a tribute to the collection titled The Phantom Museum .

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Work

• Alte cymrische Heilkunde: ein Abdruck des historischen Andenkens . Burroughs Wellcome, London Digital Edition by DÃÆ'¼sseldorf State University and Library
• Metlakahtla Story . London; New York: Saxon, 1887.

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Gallery

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References

• Infinity Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Gathered the World , Frances Larson, OUP Oxford, 2009 [1]
• Henry Wellcome , Robert Rhodes James, Hodder & amp; Stoughton, 1994.
• Syrie Maugham scandal , Gerald McKnight, W.H. Allen 1980.
• Henry Wellcome by Brian Deer
• Biography by William Hoffman
• Information about Henry Wellcome held at the Wellcome Library
• Medical Man in the Wellcome Collection
• Henry Solomon Wellcome: A philanthropist and pioneer sponsor of medical research in Sudan
• Tropical Research Laboratory Wellcome in Khartoum (1903-1934): experiments in development.

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