Cheshire Lunatic Asylum

  • Cheshire Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1832-1839
Reference:
MS.1587
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Prescription book. The entries are by various hands, and there are a few clinical notes. Produced in Chester.

Publication/Creation

1832-1839

Physical description

1 volume 69 ll. folio. 31 x 20 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, damaged.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Presented 1944 by A N Brushfield.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection:

See MS.1387 and MS.5146, both by Thomas N.Brushfield who worked at Cheshire Lunatic Asylum.

Ownership note

Stamp of the 'Cheshire Lunatic Asylum' on the first leaf.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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Accession number

  • 92700