George Speechly pharmaceutical recipe book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Speechly, George, 1833-1928, creator.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemists.

Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.).

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Medicine.

Pharmacology.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Recipes

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Alastor Rare Books (Lymington, England), 2023.

Physical Description:

1 volume (180 pages) : illustrations ; 18 x 12 cm

Production:

England, 1850-1878

Summary:

This volume contains 300 pharmaceutical recipes written and compiled between 1850 and 1878 by English chemist, George Speechly (1833-1928), with 180 of the recipes organized into an index at the beginning of the volume (p. i-xxii). There are many blank pages (p. xxiii-xxvi, 138-143). Speechly included printed recipes from published periodicals (p. 85, 94, 126-129, 136, inside back cover) throughout the book. There is a printed illustration and directions for using a "Seltzogene" (p. 112-113) and a list containing names of other chemist shops inside of the front cover. Examples of pharmaceutical recipes for everyday ailments include succedaneum for tooth stoppage (filling) (p. 13), an ointment for deafness (p. 19), opium for toothaches (p. 26), and mixtures for the treatment of hemorrhoids (p. 30). For life-threatening conditions, there are recipes to treat whooping cough (p. 31), gangrene (p. 44), diarrhea (p. 97), cholera (p. 107), syphilitic sore throat (p. 146), and "venereal eruptions" (p. 147). Speechly also noted recipes for domesticated animals, such as a treatment for "milk fever" in cows (p. 35). Examples of recipes that contain instructions for creating dyes, flavored extracts, perfume, and adhesives include Armenian cement (p. 1), liquid rouge (p. 20), Hungary water (p. 21), red dye from ground cochineal beetle (p. 23), dipping liniment for sheep (p. 40), and flavored extracts (p. 74-75).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

George Speechly Pharmaceutical Recipe Book, 1850-1878, (Ms. Codex 2193). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1438776697