MG 456 Stanford Pharmacy, Newark, N.J. Record Books, 1853-1905

 

MG 456

 

Stanford Pharmacy, Newark, N.J. Record Books, 1853-1905. 11 vols.

 

Collection of
record books (1853-1905) from the Stanford Pharmacy in Newark
(Essex  Co.: N.J.) The ledger dated 1853-1856 was kept by
the first proprietor, Dr. Luther G. Thomas, who founded the
pharmacy in 1852 and later served as an army surgeon during the
Civil War. When he did not return, William H. Stanford took over
until his death in 1915.

 

The ledger books,
1853-1856 and 1865-1871, list date, customer, some treatments and
many products and sundries sold including: box of pills, brandy,
camphor, castile soap, cigars, cream of tartar,  elixir
opium, emery paper, gum drops, magnesium, pumice, quinine pills,
toothache drops, turpentine, strychnia, and in one instance
“gonorrhoea.” Customers include W. Caulfield, N.
Doremus, J.A. Rankin, and Nehemiah Tichenor, as well as many
Newark businesses: Alling Bros., Bentley & Briant, Alm
Jeroloman & Co., Krementz & Co., Miller Bros., Smillie
& Dorrance, Kent Simoni & Co., Swinnerton Bros.

 

Prescription books
in nine volumes, 1892-1905, consist of pasted-in prescription
forms from physicians to their patients with treatment dates and
pharmacy inventory numbers. Prescriptions include: argyrol,
bicarbonate of  soda, bromide, codeine, digitalis,
eucalyptus, heroin, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, morphine sulpher,
peptonoids, phosphate, potassium, quinine pills, vaseline, zinc
oxide. Most prescription forms do not show names of physician or
patient, but the names of  many Newark doctors include:
J.Henry Clark, William S. Disbrow, William Glatzmayer, Eleanor
Haines,  W.H. Martland, John M. Rand, J.W. Read, Hugh P.
Roden, R.H. Rogers, F.W. Thum, H.J.F. Wallhauser, Aaron Ward,
George S. Ward, and Charles Young. Also, prescriptions from
Universal Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund, Newark
Charitable Eye & Ear Infirmary, St. Michael’s Hospital,
and the clinic at St. Barnabas.

 

Inventory available.

 

Gift of Benjamin Schapiro, 1961.

 

 

 

Box
Title
Dates

 

 

1
Record Book
1853-1856

 

 

 

Lists customer,
date, treatment or products sold, including

 

brandy, cigars,
elixir opium, gum drops, magnesium, quinine

 

pills, and in one
instance, “gonorrhoea.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record
Book     
                                                             1865-1871

 

Lists
customer, date, and products sold, including alcohol,

 

camphor,
castile soap, cough syrup, cream of tarter, emery

 

paper,
muriatic acid, strychnia, and toothache drops. Customers

 

include
Newark businesses: Alling Bros., Bentley & Briant,

 

Durand
& Co., Alm Jeroloman & Co., Krementz & Co., Miller

 

Bros.,
Nester & Redway,  Kent Simoni & Co., Smillie &

 

Dorrance,
A.J. Stackhouse, and Swinnerton Bros.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prescription
Books
: Medical prescription forms pasted into nine volumes,

 

with
dates and pharmacy inventory numbers

 

 

 

2
Volume 1    (Inv. #230532-234114)
Dec. 1892-Apr. 1893

 

 

3
Volume 2    (Inv. #234115-237935)
Apr.-Oct. 1893

 

 

4
Volume 3    (Inv. #259216-262695)
Nov. 1896-May 1897

 

 

5
Volume 4    (Inv. #267254-270722)
Jan. 1897-Aug. 1898

 

 

6
Volume 5    (Inv. #275076-278452)
Mar.-Sep. 1899

 

 

7
Volume 6:    (Inv. #278453-281919)
Sep. 1899-Mar. 1900

 

 

8
Volume 7:    (Inv. #281920-285288)
Mar.-Sept. 1900

 

 

9
Volume 8:    (Inv. #294828-298138)
Feb.-Aug. 1902

 

 

10
Volume 9:    (Inv. #315498-319088)

Nov. 1904-Apr. 1905

 

 

 

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