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Mead Johnson & Company
| Name | Mead Johnson & Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Bergen Avenue |
| Art des Unternehmens | chemische Fabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Angangs 81 Steuben Street; dann Bergen und Kearney Avenues. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 106] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| um 1899 |
Gründung in einem dreistöckigen Gebäude in der 81 Steuben Street |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Chemikalien |
1899 |
Gründung um 1899 |
1909 |
bekannt |
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| pharmazeutische Produkte |
1899 |
Gründung um 1899 |
1909 |
bekannt |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The business of Mead Johnson & Company, manufacturing chemists, affords another instance of rapid manufacturing
progress made in Jersey City within the past decade. Mr. E. M. Johnson, the founder and principal owner of
the above business, retired from the well known pharmaceutical house of Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick,
N. J., about ten years since, coming to Jersey City to take up the manufacture of a number of chemical products he
had been previously experimenting with. Establishing his laboratory in the three story building at 81 Steuben Street, he began the business which quickly outgrew its quarters, calling for additional room which was obtained in an an adjoining building which in turn was outgrown. Having by this time learned the physical and mechanical requirements of his business, Mr. Johnson began planning a suitable and permanent shelter for an extensive business. The culmination of these plans is seen in solid, commodious and perfectly equipped laboratory illustrated herewith, 50 x 150, and located at Bergen and Kearney Avenues. The products of the laboratory are high-class pharmaceuticals and chemicals and certain important biological products which the firm controls and which are fast making it famous as originators and manufacturers of scientific articles. The preparations of this firm are made for physicians use only, hence are little known to the general public. For many years this company has given special attention to the production of vegetable digestive ferments. Its success is perhaps best measured by the present extensive use of its
products by the medical profession. During the past ten years, various attempts have been made to present the vegetable digestive ferments (especially those found in the Carica Papaya) in usable form to the medical profession, but these products have fallen far short of representing the possibilities of this combination of enzymes, being open to the serious objections which attend crudeness of manufacture, such as weakness and uncertainty in digestive action, and being hygroscopic and unstable, faults incidental to their having been treated as a side issue by large manufacturing concerns, instead of being made, as they should be, the subject of an exclusive business and study, as no field in pharmacy is broader than that which is offered here. The perfecting of the process for refining the ferments of the pig, which has required nearly fifty years to complete, was in comparison an easy task. Caroid is the final result of a prolonged and intelligent study of the various methods employed in the growing of ferment yielding plants, and in insolatingand refining vegetable ferments, a work which the members of Mead Johnson & Co. were especially qualified to take up, as their experience in this line has covered nearly the whole period since the subject was first introduced by Wurtz and Bouchut. Caroid has all important qualities of acting energetically upon all food, especially upon proteids and fats, in either an acid, an alkaline, or a neutral medium, and where the quantity of liquid is small as ordinarily exists in the human stomach. The company is a member of the Board of Trade
of Jersey City. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 106] |
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