Magazine advertisement

By: Lambert Pharmacal Company

Date: 1915

Source: "Whether at home or away, your Summer equipment should include a bottle of Listerine." Magazine advertisement created for Lambert Pharmacal Company. 1915. Available online at Medicine and Madison Avenue: A Project of the National Humanities Center, the Digital Scriptorium, and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Database no. MM0596. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma (accessed January 23, 2003).

About the Organization: In 1879, Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert, a chemist, created a new disinfectant for surgical procedures. They named their new product Listerine, after the English physician Sir Joseph Lister, who developed the first...