Medical Notebook

Notebook containing mainly pharmaceutical formulae (including a recipe for cholera mixture, f. 19v.). Also included are brief notes of midwifery cases attended, including cases at Camberwell Workhouse, March-November 1854 (ff. 41v.-43v.). The bulk of the entries date from 1849-1854, with a few additions up to 1877.

1849-1877

1 volume 1 volume: 118 × 175 mm., 91 ff. (53-91 mainly blank). Original leather binding, clasp missing.

Transferred as a gift from the Greater London Record Office, 1990.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Label of a stationery supplier 'W Dean, Stoke-upon-Trent' on the front paste-down. Signature, possibly of the compiler, on f. 89v., 'John Clarke. Lime[?] Fields, Middleton.'