Small black covered pharmacopoeia with the title and date printed in gold on the front cover; pages are cream coloured with red edges; every other page is a blank blue-lined paper; a signature with donor's name, place and date can be found on the first page; preceding the text is a preface and tabl…
Small black covered pharmacopoeia with the title and date printed in gold on the front cover; pages are cream coloured with red edges; every other page is a blank blue-lined paper; a signature with donor's name, place and date can be found on the first page; preceding the text is a preface and table of contents; there is another section at the end of the book entitled "THERAPEUTIC NOTES" No.1 to No.3, which have cream edges instead of red; at the very end of the book are a hand full of empty cream coloured pages; the pages range from 5 to 146, not including the preface, table of contents, therapeutic notes, or blank pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to Sylvia Burkinshaw, a Registered Nurse and graduate from Scarborough Hospital. Among her many roles, at the Kingston General Hospital from 1961 up until her retirement in 1984, mainly as the Superintendent of Nurses.
On the front: "UNIVERSITY COLLEGE // HOSPITAL // PHARMACOPOEIA // 1949"; on the inside: "S. M. Burkinshaw // University College Hospital, // January : 1950."; on frontispiece: "PHARMACOPOEIA // OF THE University College Hospital // PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE // MEDICAL COMMITTEE // 1949 // EDITED BY // T. D. WHITTET // Ph.C., D.B.A. // CHIEF PHARMACIST AND LECTURER // IN PHARMACY TO THE HOSPITAL // WILDING AND SON, LTD // SHREWSBURY // 1949"; "PREFACE"; "CONTENTS"
Born at Scarborough, Yorkshire, England in 1919 and died on Sunday May 1, 2011 at the Kingston General Hospital. Only daughter of John Frederick and Margaret Burkinshaw. Following graduation as a Registered Nurse at Scarborough Hospital and as a Midwife at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital London, she served as a Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service through World War II. In 1950 she returned to civilian nursing at University College Hospital, London. An International Red Cross Scholarship award enabled her to travel to Canada to continue her health care career. She worked at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto from 1956 to 1961 and at the Kingston General Hospital from 1961 until her retirement in 1984.
A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea (literally, “drug-making”), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society. Descriptions of preparations are called monographs. In a broader sense it is a reference work for pharmaceutical drug specifications.