Pharmaceutical Preparations
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
George O. Caldwell papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/299
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one volume of George O. Caldwell's student
notes, 1884-1885, on the surgical lectures of J. Williston Wright
in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New
York (pp. 1-106), with notes on materia medica (pp. 108-134),
and an 1887 hospital formulary of 307 recipes (pp. 135-232),
probably used at the Female Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Also included are nine letters, 1891-1894, from Caldwell to
his fiancee, Annie C. Roche, written while...
Dates:
1884 - 1894
Henry Bond manuscript on prescriptions
Collection
Identifier: 10a 48
Scope and Contents
One volume (169 pages) containing prescriptions and some household formulae at end. Flyleaf is dated 1815 and bottom entry on p.88 is dated 21 Aug. 1826. Includes references to Drs. Borrows, Samuel Jackson, Physick, Ferriar, et al.
Dates:
1815-1825
Nelson Isham commonplace book
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/025
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the volume contains Isham's notes on the lecture courses
of Eli Ives on disease of children and materia medica at Yale
in 1826 and 1827. The notes describe the causes, diagnosis,
and treatment of diseases of infants and children (pp. 2-98)
and different medications and their uses (pp.101-132). There
is a topical index to the lecture notes on page 233. The remainder of the commonplace book contains medical recipes
and prescriptions (pp.99-100 and 171-193); a...
Dates:
1826 - 1831
Records of the George D. Feidt Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5/004
Scope and Contents
This small collection of records, 1833-1939, documents the Philadelphia
pharmacy and chemical manufacturing business of George D. Feidt
Company and its antecedent firms, Smith and Hodgson and Bullock
Crenshaw. The collection includes a Smith and Hodgson memorandum
book; a Bullock Crenshaw recipe book and commercial product
catalogues; and a George D. Feidt Company stock inventory
register, commercial product catalogues and price lists, order
book, poison register, catalogue...
Dates:
1833 - 1939
Thomas R. Neilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/021
Scope and Contents
This collection of Thomas R. Neilson's papers touches on many
areas of the professional career and personal life of this Philadelphia
physician, surgeon, and teacher. The bulk of the collection,
comprised of professional correspondence and surgical case records,
comes from a narrow period of time, 1888 to 1892, years when
Neilson was approaching middle age and was well advanced in
medical career. His early education, family affairs, and financial
situation are also documented....
Dates:
1865 - 1937
