Allen and Hanbury

In 1870, Messrs. Allen and Hanburys, pharmacists of London, presented to Berthelot a sample of a manna which had been sent from Lahore by Dr. Burton Brown it was described as an exudation from a spiny bush, Alhagi maurorum, belonging to the Leguminosae. This manna was said to be very abundant in Persia, where it was used as a purgative and even as a food under the name taranjbin. The manna was well known to Avicenna and other writers of the Middle Ages references to them may be found in Von Lippmann s Geschichte des Zuckers, ... 

The Allen and Hanburys compound ibldomlde (AH 5158, XLVII) is a combination a- and p-blocker (55, 56). Early clinical trials indicate that it lowers blood pressure in man (57) and although the p-blockade is non-cardioselective, the broncho-constrictor effects appear to be suppressed by the Qf-blocking component (58). This profile differs markedly from that of the... 

When Allen and Hanbury s were taken over by Glaxo they wished to import a peat inoculum from Belgium. It was called Nodosit. When examined, it was found to contain no rhizobia and smelled strongly of actinomycetes The late director of Rothamsted, Sir Fred Bawden, wryly commented that it should be called No does it When we reported to the producer the response was We cannot withold this inoculant from the market. ... 

GB Patent No. 745,956 Oct. 11, 1954 Assigned to Allen and Hanburys Limited, a British Co., of Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, London... 

Shanghai Lansheng Corporation Allen and Hanburys Emedia Export... 

Rotahaler Allen and Hanburys (now Glaxo) Asthma, COPD Unit dose hard gelatin capsule Mechanical, patient inspiration Yes... 

Source WiULam Breckon, The Drug Makers (London Eyre Methnen, 1972), p. 29. Breckon provides two tables for the top seUing companies, in 1962 and again in 1967. The first indndes Allen and Hanbury, which Glaxo acquired in 1958. In this table I ve added that firm s totals to that of Glaxo. May and Baker (no. 10) had become a subsidiary of Rhone-Poulenc. 

The synthesis of the cis amines (49) as potential analgesics by Allen and Hanbury s is a case in point. The amine must be put in by reduction (Chapter 8) and hydrogenation of the oxime (50) adds hydrogen to the opposite side from the Ar group. 

Allen and Hanburys Ltd (England) German Patent 146340, press for the manufacture of medicinal tablettes... 

Hyperstat (Schering-Plough) Eudemine (Allen and Hanburys, U.K.)... 

William Allen (London, 29 August 1770 (or 19 August i776)-Lindfield, Surrey, 30 December 1843), a Quaker, was lecturer on chemistry at Guy s Hospital and later conducted a pharmacy (from which the firm of Allen and Hanbury is descended). ... 

The perception of the SK F research team that the imidazole ring was essential for Hz antagonism allowed relatively simple bypass of the SK F patent by a group of chemists working at Allen and Hanbury, led by David Jack, also from Glasgow. 

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