Mottershead and Co., Manchester, Chemists, Recipe Book
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
A.2000.0013
Date
8/7/1894-2/3/1932
Extent and medium
1 book and 1 folder of loose items
Scope and content
Recipe book compiled by Mottershead and Co., Pharmacists, Manchester. The book contains recipes for cholera syrup, anti-asthmatic elixir, brilliantine, cod liver oil emulsion, children's cough syrup, catarrh cure, chlorodyne, corona perfume, mouth wash, essence of vanilla, elixir of quinine, furniture cream, exalgine, bismuth, caffeine citrate, hair wash, herbane leaves, hair oil, "Lancashire witches", lilac perfume, marking ink, milk preservative solution, cereal, petroleum jelly, pot pourri, castor oil soap, royal violet, gilding solution, schultze's solution, white heliotrope sachet, white rose sachet, musk sachet, saturday morning bouquet, skin cream, tooth powder, violet talcum powder, vaseline, cycloform.
Attached to the book is a folder of loose items, including correspondence, shop regulations for Mottershead and Co., advertisement for Benger's Food, excerpts of articles from journals: 'The Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist' 24 February 1912 (article about the introduction of The Shop Act 1911), 'The Chemist and Druggist' 1908 (Standen Paine obituary), advertising leaflet for Mottershead's Elder Flower Cream, copy of article from 'The Therapist' journal dated 1918 titled "Glycero-Phosphates and their Therapeutical Employment" by Dr. A. Robin in 1894, advertising leaflet for perfumes sold by Mottershead and Co., advertising leaflet of appliances for the nose, throat and ear sold by Allen and Hanburys Limited, advertising card for milk preservatives sold by Mottershead and Co., advertising leaflet for Pantostat apparatus sold by Schall and Son, advertising leaflet for Peptogenic Milk Powder compiled by Fairchild Bros. and Foster, advertising leaflet for toilet specialties and cocoa made by Mottershead and Co., copy of catalogue produced by Mottershead and Co. titled 'Over One Hundred Years of Pharmaceutical Progress', notes on the analysis of soaps compiled by G. W. Goodwin and Son, advertisement for Soluble Fir Tree Oil insecticide compiled by E. Griffiths Hughes, copy of article titled 'Sanotagen: Cottage Cheese - The New Elixir of Life', advertisement for Salvarsan powder, photographs of Mottershead and Co. equipment, advertisements for printing stamps and recipes for Whitehead's varnish, capusol lotion for the hair, bronchial elixir, currie powder, silica soap, peroxide cream, gelanthum, cold cream, zinc cold cream.
Attached to the book is a folder of loose items, including correspondence, shop regulations for Mottershead and Co., advertisement for Benger's Food, excerpts of articles from journals: 'The Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist' 24 February 1912 (article about the introduction of The Shop Act 1911), 'The Chemist and Druggist' 1908 (Standen Paine obituary), advertising leaflet for Mottershead's Elder Flower Cream, copy of article from 'The Therapist' journal dated 1918 titled "Glycero-Phosphates and their Therapeutical Employment" by Dr. A. Robin in 1894, advertising leaflet for perfumes sold by Mottershead and Co., advertising leaflet of appliances for the nose, throat and ear sold by Allen and Hanburys Limited, advertising card for milk preservatives sold by Mottershead and Co., advertising leaflet for Pantostat apparatus sold by Schall and Son, advertising leaflet for Peptogenic Milk Powder compiled by Fairchild Bros. and Foster, advertising leaflet for toilet specialties and cocoa made by Mottershead and Co., copy of catalogue produced by Mottershead and Co. titled 'Over One Hundred Years of Pharmaceutical Progress', notes on the analysis of soaps compiled by G. W. Goodwin and Son, advertisement for Soluble Fir Tree Oil insecticide compiled by E. Griffiths Hughes, copy of article titled 'Sanotagen: Cottage Cheese - The New Elixir of Life', advertisement for Salvarsan powder, photographs of Mottershead and Co. equipment, advertisements for printing stamps and recipes for Whitehead's varnish, capusol lotion for the hair, bronchial elixir, currie powder, silica soap, peroxide cream, gelanthum, cold cream, zinc cold cream.
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Not permitted
Language
English, French, Latin