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Pharmacists -- Tennessee.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Davis Drug Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1610
Abstract

This collection contains papers pertaining to the Davis Drug Company in Morristown, Tennessee dating between 1898 and 1904. The collection includes ledger books of remedy recipes, prescription notes, a photograph of the interior of the store, W. J. Davis' pharmacist license from the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy, checks written to the drug store, and a list of accounts that owed money to the store in 1904.

Dates: 1898-1904

Druggist's Prescription Record

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0621
Abstract

This collection consists of a book of prescription records from various pharmacies and physicians in Knoxville, Tennessee between 1874 and 1883. Businesses included in this record book are Lyons & McCampbell, Hunter & Co., Rodgers Brothers, and Albers & Co.

Dates: 1874-1883

James S. Robinson Apothecary Prescription Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2100
Abstract

This bound ledger contains approximately 2,250 prescriptions prescriptions filled by the James S. Robinson Apothecary in Memphis for physicians and veterinarians in 1898. The prescriptions themselves are mounted in groups of 8 to 10 per page.

Dates: 1898

James S. Robinson Apothecary Prescription Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3298
Abstract

This collection consists of a pharmacy ledger containing approximately 3,000 handwritten prescriptions filled by the James S. Robinson Apothecary in Memphis, Tennessee from May 2 to June 7, 1893.

Dates: 1893 May 2-June 7

James T. Moran Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3378
Abstract James T. Moran used this notebook while studying in the University of Tennessee's Pharmacy program in 1902. It consists primarily of instructions for mixing various medicines and creams, including the names and amounts of the requisite chemicals. It also houses a newspaper clipping providing a whitewash recipe, two prescription sheets from the Gooding Drug Co. (where Moran worked while attending school) signed by J. C. Todd, and several slips of paper listing weights and measurements of...
Dates: 1902

O. M. Swanay Pharmacy Notebook and Prescription Sheet

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3359
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,...
Dates: circa 1920

Records regarding Knoxville Physicians

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3386
Abstract This collection houses prescription sheets, patient lists, patient instructions, and billing information sheets from ledger books created and maintained by numerous Knoxville area physicians and druggists. Among the pharmacists named on the prescriptions are Wade H. Gooch of the Doyle Drug Store in Doyle, Tennessee and H. R. Rosenthal of Knoxville, Tennessee. Another prescription mentions Dr. J. P. Tillery and provides the address of his office in the Harris building, and the reverse side of...
Dates: circa 1880s-circa 1910s

William Quail Johnston Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3379
Abstract

William Quail Johnston used the first notebook in this collection while he was a student in the University of Tennessee's Pharmacy program between 1900 and 1903. It consists primarily of instructions for mixing various medicines and creams, including the names and amounts of the requisite chemicals. Johnston compiled the second notebook, which contains instructions for mixing various cleansers, beauty aids, and medicines, while working for the Market Square Drug Company.

Dates: 1900-circa 1909