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From: fionnghal nicphadraig <>
Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] APOTHECARY or DRUGGIST in Midlothian
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:24:16 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <BAY109-F20E93AC847EA7A0212E533CB250@phx.gbl>


hi Adrian
a book which you may find helpful is:

"Eighteenth Century Medics - Subscriptions, Licenses,
Apprenticeships" 1988 by PJ & RV Wallis [think this
was the 2nd edition so preferable].
The ISBN number is 1 871768 00 4.
It was written as a Project for Historical Biography
from Newcastle upon Tyne

if, like me, you're not local to Northumberland, you
may be able to get it on inter-library loan - it's
worth the postage [if you're in the UK]. If that's not
possible, you could contact the main Newcastle library
and ask them to look the entries up for you.

It's an excellent resource and judging by your dates,
yours has a chance, if slim, of being mentioned in it
as it covers the period 1710 to 1811 though by 1811
the entries are thinning but the start of his
apprenticeship might just have made it. your man
would most likely have started his apprenticeship
around the late 1810s to be qualified by 1815. there
were other routes to becoming a medical man in those
days, but apprenticeship was one of the commonest.
"18th Century Medics" covers surgeons, physicians,
chirurgeons, pharmacists, apothecaries and may other
sorts of sawbones of the day. Entries include
apprentices & master surgeons and even references to
parents' names and where the medic were in practice or
training.

it is worth reading the introduction very carefully to
understand how the references work as the author has
squeezed an immense amount of information into the
pages and done it as space efficiently as possible,
therefore codes and abbreviations were necessary.

if it's not practical to borrow the book, the
librarians in Newcastle Library will be only too happy
to do a lookup for a small charge - allow for spelling
variation of his name. it was obvious in the list that
the way they spelt their names could vary from one
entry to the next. If you do have to depend on the
librarian and they find him, ask them also to copy you
the page containing the entry for your apprentices
master appothecary [named in the right hand column of
your apprentices entry]. though i can't promise,
thre's a good chance that entry would give extra info,
like where your apprentice was based & how much were
his apprenticeship fees.

as Newcastle is in the middle of pulling down their
old library and yet to rebuild it, i'm not sure which
would be the best address to try

Newcastle Central Library, Princess Square
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1DX
phone: 0191 261 0691
or
City Library, PO Box 88
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1DX
Phone 0845 002 0336; Fax 0191 277 4168

Email

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries

if that doesn't elicit the info you need, try this
page for an alternative library contact:
http://www.mlanortheast.org.uk/LibraryBasicInformation2.htm

if you've any more questions about it you can contact
me direct - *but put the title of the book in the
subject-line* or your e-mail may be automatically
deleted. i noted down the abbreviations which would
help you work out the meaning of the entries.

hope you find your man :-)

le durachd
fionnghal

> Is anybody researching, or does anybody know of, any
> Druggists who were
> working in Midlothian between about 1815 and 1827?







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