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Rantoul and his drug store," _Bulletin of the Business Historical
Society_, June 1951, vol. 25, pp. 99-114.
[73] Joel and Jotham Post, _A catalogue of drugs, medicines &
chemicals, sold wholesale & retail, by Joel and Jotham Post,
druggists, corner of Wall and William-Streets_, New York, 1804;
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, _Catalogue of the materia
medica and of the pharmaceutical preparations, with the uniform
prices of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy_, Boston, 1828;
George W. Carpenter, _Essays on some of the most important
articles of the materia medica ... to which is added a catalogue
of medicines, surgical instruments, etc._, Philadelphia, 1834.
[74] John Dunlap, _Catalogus medicinarum et pharmacorum_,
Philadelphia, 1771; John Day, _Catalogue of drugs, chymical and
galenical preparations, shop furniture, patent medicines, and
surgical instruments sold by John Day and Company, druggists and
chymists in second-street_, Philadelphia, 1771; George
Griffenhagen, "The Day-Dunlap 1771 pharmaceutical catalog,"
_American Journal of Pharmacy_, September 1955, vol. 127, pp.
296-302; also _The New York Physician and American Medicine_, May
1956, vol. 46, pp. 42-44; Smith and Bartlett, _Catalogue of drugs
and medicines, instruments and utensils, dyestuffs, groceries,
and painters' colours, imported, prepared, and sold, by Smith and
Bartlett, at their druggists store and apothecaries shop_,
Boston, 1795.
[Illustration: Figure 9.--GODFREY'S CORDIAL, 19th-century bottles from
the Samuel Aker, David and George Kass collection, Albany, New York.
(_Smithsonian photo 44201-C._)]
In buying Anderson's and Bateman's remedies from London in 1799, Robert
Rantoul of Massachusetts specified that they be secured from Dicey. It
will be remembered that 60 years earlier William Dicey, John Cluer, and
Robert Raikes were the group of entrepreneurs who had aided Benjamin
Okell in patenting the pectoral drops bearing Bateman's name. Then and
throughout the century, this concern continued to operate a warehouse
in the Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, London. In 1721, it was known as the
"Printing-house and Picture Warehouse" of John Cluer, printer,[75] but
by 1790, it was simply the "Medicinal Warehouse" of Bow Churchyard,
Cheapside. This a
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