Selling Prescription Online - Need Help

[wolf63]

Can anybody decipher what the item is in this prescription? Some sort of Jelly but the word is just a scribble to me.


https://postimg.cc/3dcd9Pmk

Thanks

[Lie-in King]

Looks like - Tannafax jelly (?) -

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/v3kzhrtq

[anneasquith]

Appears to end in anafax ?

[anneasquith]

Well done lik .

[wolf63]

Thanks to both of you, LiK - extra thanks to you.

I was hoping that it would sell for loads of dosh, but after a bit of investigating it looks like we will get £3 or £4.

[Lie-in King]

Glad I could help :-)

[gingejbee]

Sqad may be interested...he probably trialled it in his early doctoring days!

[dannyk13]

Tannafax Jelly
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Tannafax_brand_tannic_acid_jelly.html?id=dC58ygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

[douglas9401]

One for Tannaemail is worth even less, Wolf.

[wolf63]

Duggie

Today was a naemail day, I remember when there was mail every day.

I'm off for a nap (and to give Frankie his steroids) then will look see what to look at next.

Maybe the postcards posted in 1911 and 1921 but stamped 'post on Titanic'

Or the WW1 postcards with no info.

Our Oxfam shop gets some excellent donations (book & music shop) but it's the quirky stuff that can be fascinating.

[Peter Pedant]

well done for spotting the T
I thought it was a i or a j
and got nothing on google

the prescription is ephemera - and dont go for an awful lot unless it is Churchill or Napoleon

it is not from a prescription pad but was still dispensed
the stamp is the Ayr Pharmacy and not the issuing doctor.
Rx - is of course 'Recipe' - take
shows it was a prescription and has been used since hieroglyphic times ( eye of Horus)

the squiggle I think is - "put on the label"

the prescription is initialed so the Ayr Pharmacy must have known the doctor prescribing, as only doctors and dentists could prescribe at that time. You paid of course

and Ayr must have been quite large as there was room for 10 000 telephones....

the tube itself - tannic acid and phenol
eek is NOT recommended for burns dressing.

[Sqad]

The "squiggle" at the bottom is the doctor's signature....."put on the label" is nomen proprium, which means label all the details including the name of the drug.

[wolf63]

I have now moved on to first-day covers and a very short letter/IOU about an advance of money in India in 1896.

[Peter Pedant]

having gone froo my latin abbreviations
the squig before 'use as directed '
and is /sig/ from signa=label

I thought the nomen proprium was 'Tannafax' ( now proprietary name)

but what the hell - who prescribes in Latin nowadays?

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting snippets of history then Wolf.

[Peter Pedant]

oh, I have moved onto binge watching 'Bay'

remember that the prescribing in say the Ebers papyrus which began with Rx or "recipe" were in fact magical prescriptions/ recipes
and all this bread poultice buullx implying penicillin topically has nothing to do with it

[Peter Pedant]

You will be completely unsurprised to learn that I assisted ( = intially transcribed) Latin and Greek documents from an Egyptian desert archeological site ( 1979)

http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4050

[Mamyalynne]

Quite a skill to have.

[wolf63]

PP - is there anything that you haven't done in your life? You are either 4,000,000,000 years old or totally useless and continually getting fired and taking up new professions.
☺☺

I can't remember being offered Latin as a subject at school..

[Tilly2]

:-)

[tamborine]

I know the latin credo, genius me ;)