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Three prescriptions for Charles Hatchett

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Description: Three prescriptions for medications for Charles Hatchett, one on each of three pages; the prescriptions are dated August 5, August 6, and August 8, 1796. The page dated August 5 is creased and torn.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1796.
Call number: mssHM 82720-82722
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006. Gift of Cyril Stanley Smith.
Associated people: Smith, Cyril Stanley, (1903-1992,)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Prescription book

Manuscripts

This oversize bound volume contains hundreds of prescriptions glued to its pages. The prescriptions usually contain the patient's name, doctor's name, the pharmacy or druggists' name, drug prescribed, amount, date, etc. They are all from Colton, California.

mssHM 79894

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Will Durant letters to Mr. Hauser

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Three letters from Will Durant to "Mr. Hauser." The letters, dated 1928, January 27, January 31, and February 18, discuss plans for Hauser to meet with Will, Ariel, and daughter Ethel Durant. Two of the letters are creased, and one of these is torn. A note on a fragment of a file folder, written and signed by Will Durant and dated 1962, December 13, refers to the letters, stating that Durant was on a lecture tour.

mssHM 83000-83003

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San Francisco pharmacy album

Manuscripts

A bound volume containing over 2,400 manuscript prescriptions filled by an unidentified San Francisco pharmacy. The dated and numbered prescriptions are mounted on both sides of each page, with approximately seven to nine prescriptions per page; the prescriptions are written on various billheads or plain paper issued by many different physicians. The prescriptions provide information about the doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, druggists, and patients in San Francisco during the latter part of the 19th century; among the drugs prescribed are cocaine, morphine, opium, and literally hundreds of other compounds and simples. There are a number of prescriptions written by women doctors, including Isabel Lowry, who studied medicine in Paris with her twin sister Agnes, and Tey Watanabe, who was a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, the first Japanese physician licensed in California. With contemporary half morocco and cloth covered boards; the pages in the volume are heavily foxed with considerable oxidation on acid paper. The spine has perished, the rear cover is detached, and the front cover is mostly detached; the pages, however, remain bound and can be easily turned, although the binding is tight in several places.

mssHM 84058

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José Dario Argüello letters to Gabriel Moraga, Ignacio Vicente Ferrer Vallejo, and Macario Castro

Manuscripts

These letters discuss various aspects of Argüello's duties. HM 26186 is to Gabriel Moraga, and dated 1794, August 20. HM 26187 is to Gabriel Moraga, dated 1796, May 20. HM 26188 is to Ignacio Vicente Ferrer Vallejo, and is dated 1799, November 28. HM 26189 is addressed to Macario Castro, and dated 1805, April 26. In Spanish.

mssHM 26186-26189

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John Charles Frémont letter to Alpheus Hardy

Manuscripts

Frémont requests a copy of a letter written to Hardy from Thomas O. Larkin in San Francisco, dated 1859, August 5.

mssHM 21345

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A volume of navigational and mathematical exercises and illustrations

Manuscripts

An undated volume of navigational and geometrical exercises with related diagrams, constructions, explanations, illustrations, spheres, maps, and a brief contemporary copy of the ship's log for a voyage from England to the West Indies from March to August, 1642. The volume includes one reference to letters of marque against Portugal. There are many blank pages and several pages torn out.

mssHM 69650

Three prescriptions for Charles Hatchett

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