#356 Pfizer: A Brooklyn Origin Story
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Drug Store of the 19 Fifties
Feser was the world's largest producer of natural penecilon. This wonder drug would change the world and significantly panned feiser's profile by the second half of the twentieth century. In the 19 fifties, after decades of producing chemical compounds for other people's products, feiser got into pharmaceutical sales itself with the production of anti biotic terra mison. Soon the shelves of drug stores were filled with viser products. And just as they had done a century prior, these potentially bitter tasting medicines were delivered in sweet tasting lozenges and gells. One fiser brand of cough syrups and jells was even called candets. To quote at length
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