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Volume: ‘Tried and Reliable Remedies and Family Recipes etc The result of 22 years Experience in Chemistry, Pharmacy and Domestic Medicine, Veterinary Practice by a Registered Chemist by Examination...of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain...Dedicated by permission to Dr Baker, Friends’ Retreat, York, England, 29th May 1880'. Inside, book is filled with many recipes and remedies. Loose within the volume are 5 items, all poems by A.J., including ‘Thoughts on insanity by an inmate of the Retreat, Tues 6 June 1880' Patient no. 1394, in Retreat 1879-1880. Age 34 on admission, non-Quaker, married, chemist, from Scarborough. Acute melancholia.

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