Pharmaceutical prescription cards

Collection

Identifier: MSS 393

Content Description

This small collection consists of 16 manuscript pharmaceutical prescriptions with occasional typescript comments. The cards and the comments were attributed to Battin and Lunger Pharmacists, Philadelphia, by the donor. The physicians who signed the prescriptions include J. Harold Austin, Radcliffe Cheston, J. Clinton Foltz, Alvin R. McCarthy[?], John F. McCloskey, Frank M. Ramsey, Edward G. Rhoads, Fred A. Sutcliff, and Josephus T. Ullom.

Dates

1917

Extent

1 folder (16 items)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Small collections

Processing Information

This collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015. It was processed in the summer of 2018.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Pharmaceutical prescription cards
Author: Chrissie Perella
Date: 22 June 2018
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script

External Documents

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Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository

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