RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [List for a chemist]. CWRU-StecherDistilled. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Case Western Reserve University (Robert M. Stecher Collection of Darwiniana) and William Huxley Darwin. With thanks to Jennifer Nieves, Archivist, and Laura Travis, Photographer and Image Collection Manager, Dittrick Medical History Center, for confirming that the verso is entirely blank.

This note was possibly sent to Darwin's usual dispensing chemist, William W. Baxter (1829-1900) of Bromley, who corresponded much with Darwin and provided medicines and chemicals for Darwin's scientific work. Camphorated Spirits was used for a vast range of purposes in Victorian Britain. It could be inhaled, smoked, used in compresses or suppositories, as a disinfectant and to treat conditions as various as nose bleeds or piles.

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