O. M. Swanay Pharmacy Notebook and Prescription Sheet
This black, faux leather bound notebook belonged to Dr. Ottie Milburn (O. M.) Swanay, who practiced pharmacy in both in Treadway and Rogersville, Tennessee. It contains handwritten entries detailing the symptoms of various diseases and the recipes for the prescriptions used to treat them. These pathological entries mention a variety of maladies common in the early twentieth century, including tonsillitis, scarlet fever, smallpox, worms, measles, diphtheria, meningitis, tuberculosis, dysentery, and malaria. Swanay also pasted a few articles pertaining to pharmacy and a loose page from his prescription pad with a prescription for a W. B. Short of Lee Valley, Tennessee in the book.
Dates
- circa 1920
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This black, faux leather bound notebook belonged to Dr. Ottie Milburn (O. M.) Swanay, who practiced pharmacy in both in Treadway and Rogersville, Tennessee. It contains handwritten entries detailing the symptoms of various diseases and the recipes for the prescriptions used to treat them. These pathological entries mention a variety of maladies common in the early twentieth century, including tonsillitis, scarlet fever, smallpox, worms, measles, diphtheria, meningitis, tuberculosis, dysentery, and malaria. Swanay also pasted a few articles pertaining to pharmacy and a loose page from his prescription pad with a prescription for a W. B. Short of Lee Valley, Tennessee in the book.
Biographical/Historical Note
Dr. Ottie Milburn Swanay (1882 June 18-1970 June) of Tennessee received his M. D. from Louisville Medical College in 1905 and practiced medicine near Rogersville, Tennessee thereafter. He married Elizabeth Bruner of Oregon in 1907.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
This notebook was donated to Special Collections.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository