Call Number:

Ms. Codex 2232

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

1 volume(s)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Charles D. Waite recipe book, 1852, Ms. Codex 2232, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1852

Creator:

Waite, Charles D.

Form:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

This volume contains over 600 pharmaceutical and household recipes written and compiled by Charles D. Waite in 1852. Charles D. Waite may have been a London-based doctor and senior physician at the West General Dispensary.

Little is known about this volume's creator, Charles D. Waite, but he may have been a London-based doctor and senior physician at the West General Dispensary. Waite served as a part of a commons public health inquiry during the Asiatic cholera epidemic.

There is a recipe for Godfrey's Cordial in this volume. It was a remedy containing opium used to treat a variety of ailments. It was invented in the early 18th century and its formula was first published in The Lancet in 1823. It was widely given to infants and children in England and the United States in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th centuries and was referred to as a "mother's friend." Anecdotally, some nurses used these formulas to keep babies in their care quiet. It fell out of use in the 1890s.

Jockey Club scent, a recipe for which is in this volume, is a cologne created by Caswell-Massey and first introduced at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1840. It is considered America's first sport cologne and has been popular with public figures including John F. Kennedy.

Sources:

"History of the Scent: Jockey Club Cologne by Caswell-Massey." Caswell-Massey, www.caswellmassey.com/pages/history-jockeyclub#:~:text=The%20original%20Jockey%20Club%2C%20first,from%20Saratoga%20to%20Churchill%20Downs. Accessed 23 Oct. 2024.

T.E.C., Jr. "WHAT WERE GODFREY'S CORDIAL AND DALBY'S CARMINATIVE?" Pediatrics, 1970, Volume 45, No. 6, June 1970.

This volume contains over 600 pharmaceutical and household recipes written and compiled by Charles D. Waite in 1852.

It is bound in half leather with marbled paper boards and there is significant damage to the covers and binding. There is an index (p. ii-xxv) and several blank pages (p. 188-214, 216-219).

Many of these recipes are pharmaceutical in nature, most include pharmaceutical notation, and several are written in Latin. While most of the recipes are medicinal, there are numerous recipes for household products.

Examples of recipes in this volume include Godfrey's cordial (p. 17), eau de Luce (p. 36), digestive pill (p. 37), glister for colic (p. 40), camphorized chloroform for toothache (p. 46), red sealing wax (p. 62), cough mixture (p. 68), mixture for hooping cough (whooping cough) (p. 72), Borill's balsamic paste (p. 79), powder for child 6 weeks (p. 82), Preston salt bottles (p. 102), harness blacking (p. 116), Burslem sauce (p. 123), for gout (p. 136), for mental disquiet (p. 152), French polish (p. 158), Jockey club scent (p. 160), hemorrhage female (p. 176), and brown hair dye (p. 185).