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Volume 1

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Call Number: RH MS D112

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Doctors' daybook for patients, 1839 - 1849

 Item — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D112
Scope and Contents

Account book listing doctors' fees for services to patients in Natchez, Mississippi. Of special note are numerous entries for medical services to enslaved persons and slaveholders. There are accounts of several different doctors with the same patient. It is unclear whether the doctors were in partnership or whether their accounts were prepared by a single accountant.

Dates: 1839 - 1849