Health History | Eli Lilly — The Two-Storey Lab at 15 West Pearl Street
· 1876-5
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Health History | Eli Lilly — The Two-Storey Lab at 15 West Pearl Street
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People treat Eli Lilly as a corporate campus with its own Indianapolis ZIP code that arrived already named Mounjaro and insulin.
The first bottles were mixed here, at 15 West Pearl Street, a two-storey brick just off Washington Street in the wholesale district.
Colonel Eli Lilly, a Civil War chemist who had apprenticed at the Good Samaritan Drug Store in Lafayette, opened the laboratory on 10 May 1876. Above the door he hung the sign "Eli Lilly, Chemist." The staff was four: the colonel, his fourteen-year-old son Josiah K. Lilly, and two hired hands, working seventy-two hours a week. He wanted medicines a physician could measure, not the patent tonics sold from a wagon.
Sales tripled by the end of 1877. The firm incorporated in 1880 and left Pearl Street for larger rooms on McCarty Street, on the industrial south side. Succus Alterans, a blood purifier, funded the first research chemist, Ernest Eberhardt, in 1886. After the colonel's death in 1898 the son ran the house. Large-scale insulin followed in the 1920s; penicillin in the Second World War.
A state marker on South Meridian now reads that the first headquarters stood 110 feet west of that point. The campus a mile north still reprints the Pearl Street room as a museum laboratory. Zepbound came later. The sign on Pearl Street came first.
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