Pharmaceutical Preparations

Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. The collection deals chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health.

Includes recipes for treatment of rheumatism, gout, menorrhagia, gonorrhea, nausea of pregnant females, after [birth] pains, ulcerative stomatitis, diarrhea, diarrhea of phthisis, night sweats, amonorrhea, dysmenouhrea, chronic constipation, acidity of flatulence, and dropsy. Also instructions for preparing tonics, narcotics and sedatives, expectorants, cathartics, lotions and salves.

Includes descriptions of treatment for consumption, jaundice, colic (bilious), rattlesnake bite, toothache, burns, and cancer. Also has instructions for making back plaster, making red ink, restoring sour cider, and refining cider. "Abby, Garner Joseph" appears in book.

Day books, recipe books, and some correspondence of Jewett.