Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. Stock Certificate

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Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. Stock Certificate
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Below are some key dates in Pfizer's long and rich history.
1849 - Charles Pfizer & Company opens as a fine-chemicals business. A modest red-brick building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, serves as office, laboratory, factory, and warehouse. The company's first product is santonin — a palatable antiparasitic which is an immediate success.
1862 - Demand for painkillers, preservatives, and disinfectants soared as the Civil War engulfed the nation. To help meet the needs of the Union Army, Pfizer expanded production, not only of tartaric acid, (used as a laxative and skin coolant) and cream of tartar, (effective as both a diuretic and cleansing agent), but of other drugs Union doctors used to treat sick and wounded soldiers. Among these were Iodine, Morphine, Chloroform, camphor, and mercurials, which, in addition to medicinal applications, were used in the emerging field of photography, the new medium photographer Matthew Brady employed to chronicle the Civil War.
1880 - Using imported concentrates of lemon and lime, Pfizer begins manufacturing citric acid, which becomes the company's main product and the launching pad of its growth in the decades that follow.
1891 - On December 27, co-founder Charles Erhart dies and leaves a partnership worth 0,000 to his son William. However, the agreement stipulates that Charles Pfizer can buy William Erhart's share at half its inventory value — an option Charles Pfizer quickly exercises, consolidating ownership of the company in his hands.
1928 - When bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered the germ-killing properties of the "mold juice" secreted by penicillium, he knew that it could have profound medical value. But Fleming could not make enough penicillin to be useful in practice, and his discovery was dismissed as a mere laboratory curiosity. A decade would pass before a team of scientists at Oxford University rediscovered Fleming's work and revived research into the bacteria-killing mold. Although there was growing evidence of penicillin's effectiveness, the British, who were by then under bombardment as World War II raged, were unable to carry out the necessary research. The Oxford team turned to America for help. Inspired by the possibility of saving lives and of producing the world's first "wonder drug," Pfizer offered its assistance.
1944 - Using deep-tank fermentation, Pfizer is successful in its efforts to mass-produce penicillin and becomes the world's largest producer of the "miracle drug." Most of the penicillin that goes ashore with Allied forces on D-Day is made by Pfizer.
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