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Hi I Love to share this wonderful advertizment of medicine book for you Ailments. I believe its 1930 but i could be wrong. Here is key dates of these pharmaceutical company how they started.
Ironically I did my internship for a month at the ITT department. Key Dates:

1833:
The partnership of Olcott & McKesson is founded.
1853:
The business is renamed McKesson & Robbins.
1893:
Founder John McKesson dies and his heirs leave the company.
1926:
Frank D. Coster, a criminal whose real name was Philip Musica, buys the company.
1928:
McKesson & Robbins is incorporated.

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1940:
The company becomes privately owned after Coster kills himself in 1939.
1967:
Foremost Dairies takes over the company, which becomes Foremost-McKesson, Inc.
1970:
The company moves its headquarters to San Francisco.
1976:
The company avoids a hostile takeover, is reorganized, and acquires C.F. Mueller Company and Gentry International.
1979:
Armor All Products is acquired as McKesson enters the car protection products industry.
1983:
The company acquires Zee Medical, Inc. and sells C.F. Mueller and Foremost Dairies.
1984:
The company is renamed McKesson Corporation.
1986:
McKesson Chemical Division is sold to Univar Corporation.
1989:
McKesson gains Wal-Mart Stores as a major customer.
1990:
The company gains control of Medis Health and Pharmaceutical, Canada's major drug wholesaler.
1994:
McKesson acquires Integrated Medical Systems Inc. and decides to sell PCS Health Systems to Eli Lilly & Company.
1998:
The company acquires Red Line HealthCare Corporation.
1999:
A January merger with HBO & Company creates McKesson HBOC Inc.; Kelly/Waldron & Company and Kelly Waldron/Technologies Solutions are acquired.
2000:
McKesson acquires Prospective Health, Inc. and sells its Water Products business; the company renews its contract with ShopKo Stores for five years.
2001:
The firm introduces Supply Management Online to increase its Internet capabilities.