Advertising Record
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
label: Collection Creator
content: Orr, Craig
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content: Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0329, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Contains advertisements for medical products made by Norwich Eaton for public consumption, many with attached order sheets, rebates, and offers of prizes to dealers. Examples of advertised products include Furacin, Asogen, Paracin, Unguentine (an antiseptic ointment used to treat skin burns, cuts, and scratches), Necta Sweet, Chloraseptic Pepto?Bismol, and various vitamins. Furacin is synthesized from the pentose sugar of oat hulls. Furacin has been prepared for the prophylaxis or treatment of bacterial surface infection and was tested by Eaton bacteriologists for its antibacterial characteristics. Other products developed include Asogen (an amino acid?based aluminum compound) developed for peptic ulcer and hyperchlorihydria, and Paracin (a combination of DDT and benzocaine) developed to treat the most common parasites which attack the human body. The advertising records include brochures, pamphlets, point of purchase ads, letters, broadsides, order forms, newspaper advertisements, public outreach event advertisements, advertising packets, veterinary products, questionnaires, catalogs, reports to stockholders, death notices, and postcards. The ads are both color and black-and-white and were aimed at druggists who could sell their products.