Cobb, Fred U.

[PHARMACY] [MANUSCRIPT] Pharmacist Notebook

1888. Hardcover. 110 pages. 20 x 13 cm. A well ordered, indexed, hand written receipt book filled with remedies such as Bed Bug Poison, Tooth Ache Drops (Chloroform & Oil of Clove), Coca Wine, Ginger Ale, Colored Inks, Gonorrhea Mixture, and Fireworks (Red Fire & Green Fire). Includes the original front board, spine and back cover lacking.

Fred Cobb was a pharmacist who attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1887 and had part of his thesis "Proximate Analysis of Hemamelis Bark" published in Pharmaceutical Record, in March 1888. Marbled boards. Fair. Item #4200

Price: $200.00