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Alukalin Tablets

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1930s? (medicine bottle). The Maltbie Chemical Company, located in Newark NJ, sold Alukalin as an anti-diarrhea medication. The “activated kaolin” refers to Kaolin, a white clay substance found primarily in Georgia (US), Cornwall (UK) and China. (Special Collections, George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences.)