Formula Book compiled by Standen Paine
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
A.1996.0006
Date
16/12/1869 - 08/1887
Extent and medium
1 notebook
Administrative / Biographical History
The son of a pharmacist, Paine was born in Brighton, where he served his apprenticeship as a pharmacist, and moved to London to work as an assistant to John Bell and Co., at Oxford Street in London. He passed his examination in 1858 to become a pharmacist, and worked at John Bell and Co. for six years before moving to Manchester to work at Messrs. Mottershead and Co., where he was joined by Mr. F. Baden Benger, who he became friends with at John Bell and Co. Benger and Paine took over Mottershead and Co. in 1866 and ran the company for 25 years before eaving to establish a manufacturing business in 1891 called Benger's Food Limited. Paine became chairman and managing director of Benger's Food Limited until his death in 1908.
Scope and content
Formula book compiled by Standen Paine. The book contains recipes for Worm Cakes, Corn Curer, Cold Cream, Cordial Ball Mass, Camphor Balls, Roche’s Embrocation, Toothpaste, Milk of Roses and Mr. Worm’s Remedy for Cattle Plague. The book also contains an index to recipes at the front, and cut outs of advertisements for Peptonising Powders and Diarrhoea Medicine for Children as well as an article from The Lancet.
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Not Permitted
Language
English