Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Notebook describing clinical cases examined under Dr. [Thomas D.?] Mitchell; includes 27 pages of medical prescriptions and an enclosed advertisement, in English and German, for "Dr. Barnes' Compound Chinese Balsam."

Miscellaneous notes and materia medica formulae written while a medical student at Jefferson. Includes alphabetical index in front.

Handwritten prescriptions with inserted notes and pasted clippings. Includes subject index.

Notes on lectures and clinical cases while a medical student at Jefferson Medical College, 1828-29 ; includes many prescriptions and other formulae, in Latin.

Notes by Cahan from lectures of Prof. Edward Quin Thornton, M.D. (1866-1945) at Jefferson Medical College.

Roster of General Course Clinics, Jefferson Medical College, Oct. 1889; prescriptions for apothecaries in Philadelphia and High Point, N.C., 1889 and n.d.; bills for medical treatment, High Point, N.C., 1890 and n.d.; business cards and other printed material, n.d.

Prescription book of William E. Shaffer, a Washington, D.C., pharmacist and friend of Paltridge, accompanied by a photograph of Paltridge on his 80th birthday in 1951. On the envelope enclosing the photo Paltridge explains that "many of the formulae in the book are prescriptions of prominent physicians of the late 1880's and early 1900's who practiced in Washington, D.C."

Advertisement for a remedy purported to relieve stomach ailments, invented in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in the House of Tilly in 1764 and sold there by descendants of Nicolas de Koning Tilly.