Shortly after graduating from college, Bristol had partnered with his college contemporary, John Ripley Myers, and purchased the failing Clinton Pharmaceutical Company for US$5000 that was located in upstate New York.
The company found its first success with the release of a mineral salt laxative, Sal Hepatica, that helped with dyspepsia.
This medicinal product proved profitable for the young entrepreneurs.
By the time of his death in 1935, Bristol-Myers had become an international pharmaceutical conglomerate.
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