General Bond printed by Security-Columbian Banknote Company. Various Denominations. Great scientist vignette. He poses w/ a microscope. Rare!!! Available in Blue, Aqua or Brown. Please specify color. Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices & health care company w/ headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; today, it sells medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines & nutritional products. It split off its research-based pharmaceuticals business into AbbVie in 2013. Among its well-known products across the medical devices, diagnostics, & nutrition product divisions are Pedialyte, Similac, Ensure, Glucerna, ZonePerfect, FreeStyle Libre, i-STAT & MitraClip. In 1888 at the age of 30, Wallace Abbott (1857â€"1921), an 1885 graduate of the University of Michigan, founded the Abbott Alkaloidal Company in Ravenswood, Chicago. At the time, he was a practicing physician & owned a drug store. His innovation was the use of the active part of a medicinal plant, generally an alkaloid (e.g., morphine, quinine, strychnine & codeine), which he formed into tiny "dosimetric granules". This approach was successful since it produced more consistent & effective dosages for patients. In 1922, the company moved from Ravenswood to North Chicago, Illinois. Read more at A bond is a document of title for a loan. Bonds are issued, not only by businesses, but also by national, state or city governments, or other public bodies, or sometimes by individuals. Bonds are a loan to the company or other body. They are normally repayable within a stated period of time. Bonds earn interest at a fixed rate, which must usually be paid by the undertaking regardless of its financial results. A bondholder is a creditor of the undertaking.

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