Brief Description

Series of 33 pharmacy prescription books for Beacham's Pharmacies in Melbourne, being a tall and narrow index book with leather or cloth binding. Prescription entries in each volume (with exception of the first two volumes) were set down in a single page column format detailing: date at beginning of each day's transactions; prescription number; patient's name; prescription contents; signature of pharmicist dispensing prescription; price (never filled in).

The prescription number was a sequential number for each transaction up to 1937. At the beginning of volume 23 a new number sequences was established with a sequential number allocated for each day's transactions with a part number for each prescription recorded, e.g. N381/6. This sequence is repeated at the beginning of each volume. Most of the sequence of Prescription Books have an alphabetical letter marking the order of volumes which was added to the Prescription Number, and this letter prefix was added to the new prescription number-sequence in 1937.

Other variations in the informational content of the volumes include individual transaction dates allocated to some prescriptions and the first two volume's prescriptions were not recorded in a column format but provide the same information as the later volumes.

History of Object

Beacham's were at 276 Flinders Street, Melbourne.

Materials and Finishes

Paper (printed), cardboard, leather and cloth.

References

Brief Description

Pharmacy prescription book for the 1890s, with loose index and sheet lists plus extraneous papers all tucked into back slip. Leather spine with cloth covers.

History of Object

Materials and Finishes

Paper (printed), cardboard, leather and cloth.

References

Brief Description

Pharmacy prescriptions book for 1942-43; includes code, customer, type of prescription and price.

History of Object

All entries have the price of the prescriptions, excepting those which instead have "Australia."

Materials and Finishes

Paper (printed), cardboard and leather.

References

Brief Description

Prescription book from Charles A. Rundle's Chemist in Wangaratta, for the period 1870-74. Quarto-size exercise book with waterfall-pattern cover.

History of Object

This marbled-cover exercise book was used by Dr. McMullin and the other pharmacists as both a Prescription Book and a Cash Book, between 1870-1881. Patients' prescription details were entered in the volume over several short periods of months from 1870 to 1874 [27/3/70-18/5/70; 24/2/71-18/1/72; 7/2/74-24/9/74]. The rear section of the volume was also used as a cash book for the Pharmacy's supplies, from 12/7/1871 to 10/6/1870. (?) In 1881 a copy of a proposed "Tender for Drugs, Wangaratta Hospital" was written in to the back of the exercise book. The small amount of both prescription and cash book entries indicate that this volume was not the only document source for recording the Pharmacy's transactions.

Contains order sent by Mr. C.A. Rundle to S. Maw, Son & Thompson, London, for pharmaceutical supplies in 1871.

University of Melbourne Collection.

Materials and Finishes

Paper (printed and ink), cardboard and leatherette.

References

Brief Description

Five hard-bound volumes. Each prescription book is a self-indexing register which records the prescriptions made out to patients at the Prince Henry's Hospital. Within each volume, the prescription details are set down in a single page column format. The columns comprise: Name & No.; Copy of Prescription; Price (no price is actually recorded). The prescription book entries follow a chronological sequence. Patients' prescriptions are indexed alphabetically under surname within the index at the beginning of each volume. These prescription books are a sample taken from the larger collection comprising all the prescription records at Prince Henry's Hospital. These volumes are examples of the prescriptions issue dby the Hospital over four decades.

History of Object

Prescription books used for recording prescriptions issued to patients.

Volume 1: 4/3/1930 - 23/11/1931
Volume 2: 8/12/1938 - 16/3/1940
Volume 3: 20/9/1948 - 10/3/1950
Volume 4: 16/11/1960 - 11/8/1960
Volume 5: 15/9/1969 - 11/6/1970

Materials and Finishes

Paper, cardboard and linen.

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