Pharmacy prescription book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacy.

Medicine |y 19th century |v Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Genre:

Prescriptions.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books, 2023.

Physical Description:

1 volume (378 pages) ; 34 x 5 cm

Production:

Norwich, Norfolk : 1883-1888.

Summary:

The volume is comprised of formulas for prescriptions spanning the years from 1883 to 1888. The volume contains 836 hand-written prescriptions that are arranged numerically and chronologically. This volume is half leather bound with marble flyleaves and likely came from a series of prescription books for a pharmacy located in Norwich, Norfolk. Included in each entry is the prescription number, the patient’s name, the formula or prescription, the dosage and instructions for the patient, the date, and the initials of the chemist or physician. Ailments or titles of the prescriptive formulas are rarely listed. A tabbed alphabetical index is at the beginning of the volume arranged by patient name. The first prescription number is 6012 and the last is 6898. Recipes often use ingredients such as chloroform, tinctures of digitalis and belladonna. A Miss Royle and a Joseph H. Ladyman Esq. (1819-1888) were prescribed to most frequently, with 34 and 35 entries respectively. Additionally, the pharmacy appears to have been treating at least four nuns at a local convent, most likely Carrow Abbey, a Benedictine priory in Southeast Norwich. An address for a store selling Custom Oil Capsules is on the first flyleaf.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

Pharmacy Prescription Book (Ms. Codex 2346). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.