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James Crossley Eno

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112: 120: 147:, and they were marketed for a wide range of ailments, only a few of which (e.g. indigestion) they could actually ameliorate. Eno set up his own pharmacy in the Groat Market area of the city and in 1852 began selling his own fruit salt mixture. Eno gave away his compound to seafarers at the port, and in this way the name Eno became associated with fruit salts around the world. In 1868, he formally founded the company Eno's "Fruit Salt" Works. 161:
Eno's success spawned many competitors in both Great Britain and the United States, but Eno's Fruit Salt continued to be popular. As the pharmaceutical industry moved away from cure-all patent medicines in the mid 20th century, Eno's Fruit Salt became one of the only surviving products of its kind.
96:, England, the son of James Eno and Elizabeth Eno, who kept a small general shop. He apprenticed as a druggist and, at the end of his apprenticeship in 1846, joined the staff of a local 533: 111: 265:
Different reliable sources give 1820, 1827, or 1828 as Eno's birth year. The earliest date is used here as most likely to be correct.
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With the success of his product, Eno's business outgrew its premises and in 1876 he established a larger factory in the
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Eno married Elizabeth Ann Cooke in 1852 and they had a daughter, Amy (1855–1942). Amy married
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A social history of medicines in the twentieth century : to be taken three times a day
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Building constructed for Eno in 1898 in Gatehead, across the river from Newcastle upon Tyne
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Campbell, W. A. (June 1966) "James Crossley Eno and the Rise of the Health Salts Trade".
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Chemistry, society and environment : a new history of the British chemical industry
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60(3) (June 1966), p.350. Reprinted as an appendix to W. A. Campbell,
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The Analytical Chemist in Nineteenth Century English Social History
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The history of foreign investment in the United States, 1914-1945
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district of London. He himself eventually settled in
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumberland
England
fruit salt
antacid
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Dennis Embleton
effervescent
sodium bicarbonate
citric acid
fruit salts
New Cross
Dulwich
GlaxoSmithKline
antacid
sodium bicarbonate
sodium carbonate
citric acid
Harold William Swithinbank
Isobel Cripps
Peggy Cripps
Kwame Anthony Appiah
New York University
Royal Victoria Infirmary
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