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Hayes and Bristol Recipe Book

Book, bound in an unmarked greenish cover, containing numerous handwritten pharmaceutical recipes. Among the handwritten entries, several printed recipes have also been pasted to pages. A passage denouncing quackery and detailing a pharmacist tried for manslaughter after prescribing Morrison's Pills, presumably clipped from a newspaper is also included. Inside the back cover are clippings continuing the story about Morrison's Pills, extolling the "Virtues of Sarsaparilla," taken from the Detroit Daily Free Press, and an advertisement for Bailey's Chemical Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsaparilla, sold by "Bfnj'n Le Briton at No. 107 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. "Hayes & Bristol Recipe Book," is handwritten numerous times, along with "Buffalo July 1833," "red ink" in red ink, and "Sample of Lass ink made Jan. 1834," presumably to test the ink one a loose page near the end of the book. A partial advertisement for Hayes and Bristol is also on a loose scrap of paper in the back cover.