Call Number:

Ms. Codex 2252

Repository:

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

Extent:

1 volume(s)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Dr. William S. Hendrie medical recipe book, 1826-1834, Ms. Codex 2252, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1826-1834 (inclusive)

Creator:

Hendrie, William Scott, Dr., 1798-1875

Form:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

This volume contains around 80 medicinal remedies that are both pharmaceutical and homely in nature, likely written and compiled by Dr. William S. Hendrie in Hilltown, Pennsylvania between 1826 and 1834.

Dr. William Scott Hendrie was born in New Jersey on December 17, 1798.

He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824 and worked as a physician in Bucks County, PA from 1824 until at least 1870, possibly until his death. Hendrie's Doctoral thesis seems to have been titled, "Cases of Impetigo, Humid or Running Tetter, cured by the use of Sanguinaria Canadensis" and was published in Medical Journal, No. XVI published by H.C. Carey & I. Lea. On July 31, 1830, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Hendrie successfully cured a ruptured uterus.

In 1825, Hendrie married Ann Dunlop and together they had three children, Julia Dunlop Lloyd, Josephine Widdifield, and W. Scott Hendrie. The family lived in Hilltown and Doylestown, PA.

Hendrie died on April 20, 1875 in Doylestown, PA.

Little is known about John, Anna, and Jared Mathias other than that they likely lived in Hilltown, PA in the 1820s and 1830s.

Dalby's Carminative, a recipe for which is in this volume, was a medical remedy that included opium and was marked as poison by the mid-to-late 19th century. It was widely given to infants and children in England and the United States in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th centuries. Dalby's Carminitave and other similar remedies were often referred to as "mother's friends" and were used to treat a variety of ailments.

Sources:

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

This volume contains around 80 medicinal remedies that are both pharmaceutical and homely in nature, likely written and compiled by Dr. William S. Hendrie between 1826 and 1834.

The volume is a handmade and stitched notebook with blue paper covers. There are two receipts laid into the volume and one meeting announcement for the board of trustees of a church. Both receipts are from a Dr. William S. Hendrie for medical care for members of the Mathias Family.

Examples of remedies in this volume include paralysis (p. 4), for gonorrhoea (p. 5), Dr. Chapman' favorite formula for gonorrhoea (p. 6), Dr. James' formula for heartburn (p. 6), Moseley's vitriolic lotion (p. 7), Dr. Dorsey's colyria for active inflammation of eye (p. 7), Dalby's carminative (p. 12), Dr. Jackson's anodyne draught (p. 12), and anti-hysteria pill (p. 12).