Antique Prescription File Box with 100 original 1921 scrips (Serially numbered)
This chartreuse (light green) antique prescription file box measures approximately 7" long, 4" wide and 1" deep, and contains the prescriptions marked with the serial numbers 173801 through 173900. See pictures for condition.
The 100 prescriptions are from 1921, so they are over a century old.
Only one is dated: #173804, dated 5/2/1921.
The first six sets include what in my experience are the most collectible among antique prescriptions or pharmacy ephemera, which I've highlighted as follows:
SCRIP PIC 1:
1 dated scrip (5/2/1921)
2 scrips with 192__ preprinted on date line
SCRIP PIC 2:
1 ergot & strychnine
1 paregoric (opium)
2 opium
1 Barbitol
SCRIP PIC 3:
3 strychnine
2 belladonna
SCRIP PIC 4:
9 quinine (one for baby)
SCRIP PIC 5:
1 baby
1 phenolphthalein (for constipation)
1 vaginal suppository
1 douche powder
SCRIP PIC 6:
7 for eye drops
1 for ear drops
1 for nose
There are at least three scrips for CALOMEL (173814, 173843, 173871) which has an interesting history. (Check it out on Wikipedia.) In high doses, it causes mercury poisoning. It was a VERY popular drug but was ultimately discontinued as a medicine because it proved to be more harmful than good.
All of the prescriptions have been photographed. If you need a better picture of any specific one, please let me know.
These century-old handwritten prescriptions are all original.
There is a bent nail inside the green box. When each prescription was filled and numbered, the pharmacist would secure it inside the box by using the nail to puncture a hole, and then slide the prescription along the nail to stack it neatly inside the box.
I removed the prescriptions from the nail so that I could count, sort and photograph them. (I did not remove any prescriptions from what was originally contained in the box. I've just re-ordered them.) I've returned them to the box, but I did not put them back on the nail, nor did I put them back in numerical order, but instead left them in groups as I placed them for the photographs.
The filling pharmacy and great majority of prescribing doctors were in Brenham, Texas.
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