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Burroughs, Wellcome & Company's successfully introduced new ideas for marketing and advertising (including the patenting of the word 'tabloid'); an increasing range of products and success at major international exhibitions.
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Burroughs was known for pushing himself to the limit. When recovering from flu on a cycling trip on the French
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unsuccessfully tried to dissolve the partnership. They were in the process of discussing the dissolution again in 1894 when
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