Antique Hospital Pharmacist's Notebook with Many Remedy Recipes! 1940s painting running about half way in

running about half way in

my guess is 1880s or so

perhaps for this reason

John Burton was the brother of the eminent Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Fredric William Burton

Crayon on wood

Antique Hospital Pharmacist's Notebook with Many Remedy Recipes! 1940s painting running about half way inI've gotten in the habit of opening most every old notebook I come across, especially ones with marbled paper covers, and this was as especially fun one to find. On the inside cover is written Danvers State Hospital, Hawthorne Mass, followed by the names Miss Irene Higgins, Ph. C (Pharmaceutical Chemist, I believe) and N. H Richardson, with the dates of 1913 and 1916 respectively. Inside, many many dozens of handwritten recipes for remedies (detailed