Phenacetin is a pain-relieving and fever-reducing drug, which was widely used following its introduction in 1887. It was withdrawn from medicinal use as dangerous from the 1970s.
Vicks cold tablets, containing: salicylamide, phenacetin 2½ grs., pyrilamine maleate, caffeine, ephedrine sulphate, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide complex (U.S. Pat. 2,446,981). That patent number is from 1948; these tablets would have been made shortly thereafter.
Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe FRS was a English chemist who made major contributions to organic chemistry, including the Thorpe-Ingold effect and three named reactions.
Jocelyn Field Thorpe