Box Small Collections Oversize Box 5
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Ledger, 1825-1836
File — Box: Small Collections Oversize Box 5, Oversize_Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Medical ledger of James Keen, a physician in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Notes about visits to patients which include treatments, medicines dispensed, prescriptions, notes, calculations, and payment records. There are over 60 entries for the treatment of enslaved individuals and several are named. One entry notes the removal of a tumor from a "Negro Woman." The last page of the ledger lists births of foals and their lineage.A handwritten note is on page two, “James...
Dates:
1825-1836
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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James Keen Ledger