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Pharmacists' Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/103

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Pharmacists' Records

Date(s): 1873-1951

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5 volumes, 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Various prescription books, 1873-1917, 12 items: batch books, 1925-1951, and sales cash books, n.d., from unknown pharmacies (probably all in the London area, and the prescriptions books of a pharmacy based in Kensington).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Roughly in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Papers over 100 years old are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. Most of the papers under 100 years old are Restricted Access: i.e. the intending user should consult the archivist and apply for access, completing the relevant forms and undertaking not to identify individuals. Items 3 and 4 are closed until 1st January 2016 and 1st January 2018 respectively.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These volumes were found in WIHM store Enfield June 1988. No further information is known about the creators. The addresses in the prescription books GC/103/1-4 are from the Kensington area, London, W8.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Alcohol | Alcohols | Organic chemicals | Chemicals
Pharmacists | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Prescriptions | Documents | Information sources
Substance-related disorders | Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry
Tobacco | Plant products | Agricultural products
Personnel
Pharmaceutical preparations

Personal names

Corporate names

Places