1891 TWO-SIDED PHARMACY LEDGER PAGE - 24 ANTIQUE PRESCRIPTIONS COCAINE & OPIUM

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1891 TWO-SIDED PHARMACY LEDGER PAGE with 24 ANTIQUE PRESCRIPTIONS, including COCAINE & OPIUM - CHATHAM, NY.
As pictured: Two dozen original handwritten prescriptions from 1891, glued and sequentially numbered onto a page from a antique pharmacy ledger. The two-sided page is 17.25" by 11.5", with a dozen prescriptions on each side dated between March 28 and April 1, 1891. (Note that the dates are written with day, then month, and then year in this 19th century ledger.)
The 19th-century prescriptions glued onto one side of the pharmacy ledger page are numbered 6541 to 6552, dated March 28 to 31, 1891. Script #6562 is for
opium suppositories,
dated 31-3-91 (March 31, 1891).
The 19th-century prescriptions glued onto the other side of the pharmacy ledger page are numbered 6553 to 6564, dated March 31 to April 1, 1891. The script #6564 is for
cocaine
dated 1-4-91 (April 1, 1891 -- April Fool's Day!)
The 24 prescriptions include chloroform and quinine sulphate.
The prescribing physician appears to be J.T. Wheeler, MD, in all except for #6544, the prescription for Extract of Viburnum by Dr. Green dated March 28, 1991.  Based on the location of Dr. Wheeler's practice, and pharmacy information printed on other prescriptions in the ledger, the pharmacy that filled these prescriptions was located in
Chatham, New York
.
As published in the December 10, 1908 edition of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal:
Dr. John T. Wheeler
, the most prominent physician of Chatham, Columbia County,New York, died from pneumonia on December 4, 1908. He was 58 years of age and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1876. At the time of his death, Dr. Wheeler was director of the Division of Communicable Diseases in the State Department of Health, and second vice-president of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
For collectors interested in pharmaceutical ephemera from the 1800s and early 1900s, please check out my other listings, which include vintage handwritten, original prescriptions for opium, morphine, codeine, cocaine,heroine, cannabis, and even whiskey (a loophole during Prohibition).
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