Scales and weights 1 box 1 set Mortar and pestle 1 Brass, 1 Glass Tyles (pill tiles) 2 Spatulas 1 wooden 1 large, handle, 1 1 pocket iron handle Bolus knife 1 Plaister knife (plaster spatula) 1 Leather skins 2 lb.
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Bottles Assortment Assortment Gallypots 1 doz. Assortment Vials 6 doz. sorted Corks 10 doz. Pillboxes 1 pacg. Wrapp paper 4 quire Writing paper 1 quire 6 quire Ink powder 2 papers Quiles (quills) 14 hundred
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U.S. Government Printing Office: 1961
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington 25, D.C.--Price 25 cents
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FOOTNOTES:
John C. Miller, Triumph of Freedom, 1775-1783, Boston, 1948, preface.
Louis C. Duncan, Medical Men in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1931; William O. Owen, The Medical Department of the United States Army during the Period of the Revolution, New York, 1920; James E. Gibson, Dr. Bodo Otto and the Medical Background of the American Revolution, Springfield, Ill., 1937; James Thomas Flexner, Doctors on Horseback, New York, 1939.
Lyman F. Kebler, "Andrew Craigie, the First Apothecary General of the United States," Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 1928, vol. 17, pp. 63-74, 167-178; Frederick Haven Pratt, "The Craigies," Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society (1941), 1942, vol. 27, pp. 43-86; Edward Kremers and George Urdang, A History of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, 1951 edition, chap. 11; Edward Kremers, "The Lititz Pharmacopoeia," The Badger Pharmacist, nos. 22-25, June-December 1938; J. W. England, ed., The First Century of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, 1922, pp. 84-94; American Journal of Pharmacy, 1884, vol. 56, pp. 483-491.
Jonathan Potts Papers, four volumes of miscellaneous manuscripts at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (hereinafter referred to as Potts Papers).
Journals of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Bay, quoted in Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 22-23.
Greenleaf Ledger, 1765-1778, at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. (The Greenleaf pharmacy was established by Elizabeth Greenleaf in 1726 or 1727. See J. L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, 1920, vol. 5, pp. 472-476; Jonathan Greenleaf, A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, New York, 1854, pp. 89, 91, 205, 207; Boston Post-Boy and Boston Gazette, November 8, 1762, obituary of Elizabeth Greenleaf.)
Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), p. 23.
J. R. Alden, The American Revolution, New York, 1954 p. 23.
Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 12-13.
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, edited by Worthington C. Ford, Washington, D.C., 1905, vol. 2, p. 250. Nearly all excerpts from Ford also appear in Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2).
Ibid., vol. 3, p. 261. The Samuel Ward diary for September 23 records that "a parcel of medicines for the hospital" was "to be bought" (E. C. Burnett, Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, D.C., 1921, vol. 1, p. 205).
Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 3, p. 344.
Burnett, op. cit. (footnote 11), vol. 1, p. 292.
Pennsylvania Ledger, May 6, 1775. [William Smith in Philadelphia was selling drugs in 1772 (Potts Papers, vol. 1, folio 52).]
Pennsylvania Evening Post, December 26, 1775.
Pennsylvania Packet, September 11, 1775; Pennsylvania Journal, September 6, 1775; Pennsylvania Gazette, October 4, 1775.
The Marshalls sold drugs to Sharp Delaney and William Smith in April 1776 (Marshall Waste Book, see footnote 20).
E. T. Ellis, "The Story of a Very Old Philadelphia Drug Store," American Journal of Pharmacy, 1908, vol. 75, p. 57; England, op. cit. (footnote 3), pp. 348-350; Parke, Davis & Co., A History of Pharmacy in Pictures, undated booklet edited by George Bender.
Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 3, p. 442; vol. 4, pp. 188, 197.
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