Medical - Apothecary, Pharmaceutical - a mid-late 19th centu...

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Medical - Apothecary, Pharmaceutical - a mid-late 19th century ink MS pharmacopoeia, most probably composed and used by Squire & Sons, 413 Oxford Street, London, 230pp of receipts for various medicines and treatments, in alternating generational hands, occasionally pasted in with contemporary ephemera for Squire and further chemists and pharmacists, contemporary calf over boards (worn), 8vo, [1] Provenance: 1) presumbaly Richard Squire (1798-1884), pharmacist to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and sometime president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Squire is better known today for his important invention of anaesthetic apparatus and for the first legal cannabis preparation: Squire's Extract; 2) and presumably, his descendants (family and business). As well as the attached Squire-related ephemera along with those of other chemists and pharmacists, Squire is writtetn multiple times within the text unlike those of the other establishments. Though there is no mention of the Royal Household nor, alas, the lofty patent for Squire's Extract of Cannabis, yet the calibre of the clientele can be deduced from the presence on page 108 of a receipt for Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (née Jerome of New York; 1854-1821), wife of Lord Randolph (1849-1895) and mother of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965).