Martindale and Co., dispensing chemists, London

Prescription books.

1889-1970

64 volumes

Martindale's changed the system of prescription registers in the 1940s to one single volume for all prescriptions rather than the separate alphabetical sequences used previously.

The first accession of material (accession 59) was acquired 1974. The second accession was given to The Wellcome Library by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in January 2002 (acc.1007).

William Martindale (1840-1902) began trading in 1873. This business, situated in New Cavendish Street, central London, traded thereafter as W .Martindale. In the 1890s William's son, William Harrison Martindale (1874-1932) assumed control of his father's firm and expanded the manufacturing side of the business. 1928 he rebuilt the New Cavendish Street premises and erected a factory in Chenies Mews behind University College Hospital. The business, W. Martindale, was acquired by Savory & Moore Ltd in 1933, following which the retail operation at New Cavendish Street continued to trade as W. Martindale until the mid-1970s.

At Wellcome Collection:

For earlier prescription records (1885-1890) see MSS. 5984-5985.

WMS/Amer.148 includes descriptions of work using a tincture of yagé prepared by William Martindale.

In other repositories:

Martindale Pharmaceuticals Ltd holds a small amount of material.

For similar archival collections at Wellcome Collection see GC/13 Fallers' Pharmacy; GC/16 Savory and Moore; GC/28 Nicolson, Thomas Tanner Ltd; GC/29 Norwich Chemist; GC/75 Croadsell, H C; GC/100 Armitage Dispensing Chemist; GC/101 Imperial Pharmacy; GC/102 Tyler Dispensing Chemist; GC/103 Pharmacists' Records; GC/189 Fulham Road Pharmacy; GC/214 Harrods Pharmacy.

This collection has been catalogued and is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records.