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Tag: apothecary system

1890 Rx

June 3, 2009April 30, 2015 melnickmuseum5 Comments

Last week, while leafing through a 1890s medical book from the museum's library, I found a small slip of paper between the pages. It was a prescription recipe for the pharmacy of H. Waterman in Ravenna, OH. As I looked over the neat handwriting, I realized that the drug names were written in Latin and… Continue reading 1890 Rx →

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