This bundle of antique prescriptions from 1896 are serially numbered from 88901 to 89000. They were filled at a pharmacy in Brenham, Texas.
The packet is held together with its original staples/clips. Note that the first page - which has "88901 to 89000" on one side, and an opium prescription (#88901) on the other is attached to the rest of the stack by the staple on the right, but that over time, it has torn lose from the other staple.
It was common for pharmacists to serially number prescriptions and compile them in groups of 100.
These are all original prescriptions from 1896: Only one of the prescriptions is dated, as shown in the photographs. #88935 for Quinine is dated 5th-12th, 1896. (As to whether it's the 5th day of December, or the 12th day of May, I don't know - but in general, when people rendered dates in that fashion, they were showing day, then month, then year. Regardless, the scrips are all from sometime in 1896.)
There is also one prescription (shown in the photos) that is not dated, but which shows the year pre-printed at the bottom of the prescription pad as 189_. (#88953)
The packet is held together with its original staples/clips. Note that the first page - which has "88901 to 89000" on one side, and an opium prescription (#88901) on the other is attached to the rest of the stack by the staple on the right, but that over time, it has torn lose from the other staple.
It was common for pharmacists to serially number prescriptions and compile them in groups of 100.
These are all original prescriptions from 1896: Only one of the prescriptions is dated, as shown in the photographs. #88935 for Quinine is dated 5th-12th, 1896. (As to whether it's the 5th day of December, or the 12th day of May, I don't know - but in general, when people rendered dates in that fashion, they were showing day, then month, then year. Regardless, the scrips are all from sometime in 1896.)
There is also one prescription (shown in the photos) that is not dated, but which shows the year pre-printed at the bottom of the prescription pad as 189_. (#88953)
The packet contains:
1 Chloranodyne scrip (#88996)
4 Opium scrips (#88988, 88980, 88962 - with Belladonna, 88901 - for child)
2 Paregoric scrips (#88963, 88959)
4 morphine scrips (#89000,88955, 88944, 88908)
1 Papine scrip (#88925)
There are three prescriptions - one of which I've included in photos (#88924) - for something I can't quite make out, but which "strike me" as related to opium because of the two dotted I's, and because I've seen similar variations in how doctors wrote prescriptions for Papine, the anodyne of opium. (If someone recognizes this medication, please message me to let me know.)
Tooth Powder - #88912
Several poisons (Quinine, Belladonna, Arsenic)
Several scrips for Calomel, which was widely used until taken off market because it caused more harm than good (and potential mercury poisoning) - See Wikipedia for more details.
Several poisons (Quinine, Belladonna, Arsenic)
Several scrips for Calomel, which was widely used until taken off market because it caused more harm than good (and potential mercury poisoning) - See Wikipedia for more details.
Paregoric (anhydrous morphine) is made from tincture of opium (laudanum)
Chlor-Anodyne by Parke Davis was a variation of the popular & famous Chlorodyne. Those patent medicines included laudanum or morphine, cannabis indica (Indian hemp) and chloroform in its ingredientsThese prescriptions are all original.
The filling pharmacy and great majority of prescribing doctors were in Brenham, Texas.
The filling pharmacy and great majority of prescribing doctors were in Brenham, Texas.
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