"You can't enjoy yourself if ..." Advert issued by Anadin, 1947
I always assocaite Anadin with their advertising strapline and the retort "Can I have a packet of nothing please?". Why? Because 'nothing acts faster than Anadin" but then I'm a certain age now. This 1947 outing for the well known painkiller uses the "gain quick pain relief" line along with the fact you can't enjoy yourself if half your mind is on pain. Hmm, I'd be more worried about what was on the other half of his mind, the cad. The advert unusually has an artist's name on the very period late '40s style couple - A R Whitear who was, around the time, a book illustrator.
Anadin appeared in the UK in 1932 as the British version of the American product Anacin. The brand is still around although the formulation acknowledged here isn't as phenacetin has been banned since the 1980s as a carcinogenic. The compound was one of the earliest synthetic analgesics appearing from the laboratories of the famous German company Bayer in 1887. The product was very popular although widespread production was only started in the UK during the First World War when imports from Germany were halted. The synthasis of the compound here was partially due to a pioneering woman chemist, Martha Annie Whiteley (1856 - 1956), one of those people in the history of chemistry who possibly shoudl be better recalled.
"You can't enjoy yourself if ..." Advert issued by Anadin, 1947
I always assocaite Anadin with their advertising strapline and the retort "Can I have a packet of nothing please?". Why? Because 'nothing acts faster than Anadin" but then I'm a certain age now. This 1947 outing for the well known painkiller uses the "gain quick pain relief" line along with the fact you can't enjoy yourself if half your mind is on pain. Hmm, I'd be more worried about what was on the other half of his mind, the cad. The advert unusually has an artist's name on the very period late '40s style couple - A R Whitear who was, around the time, a book illustrator.
Anadin appeared in the UK in 1932 as the British version of the American product Anacin. The brand is still around although the formulation acknowledged here isn't as phenacetin has been banned since the 1980s as a carcinogenic. The compound was one of the earliest synthetic analgesics appearing from the laboratories of the famous German company Bayer in 1887. The product was very popular although widespread production was only started in the UK during the First World War when imports from Germany were halted. The synthasis of the compound here was partially due to a pioneering woman chemist, Martha Annie Whiteley (1856 - 1956), one of those people in the history of chemistry who possibly shoudl be better recalled.