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Title

Doctor's account book

Authors

• Archer, John, 1741-1810

Call number

Ms. Codex 639
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935669313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82342563
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9935669313503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English and Latin

Origin

Date

1775-1783

Place

Harford County, Maryland

Summary

The third in a series of at least eight ledgers in which John Archer recorded patient notes, fees, and debts. The first seven pages are an index of patient names arranged alphabetically, after which the chronological entries of the ledger begin in 1775 and continue to 1783. The last 33 pages, beginning from the end, contain a text in Latin titled "Compendium Logicae," copied by Archer as a student in the 1760s.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. fol. [i-iii], 1r: Patient index.
   
• 3. fol. [ii] verso-[xvii] recto: Compendium logicae.
   
• 2. fol. 1v-127v, [i]: Medical records.
   

Extent

151 leaves : 191 x 150 mm. bound to 198 x 160 mm

Foliation

iii + 127 + xxi (paginated 1-33 from the back).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary sheep (bookseller's notes), back cover detached, spine damaged, front cover cut off about 47 mm. from spine.

Provenance

• Sold by Martayan Lan, 2004.
   
• Bequeathed by Archer to the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; stamp on front pastedown of the library of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--United States--18th century
• Physicians--United States--18th century
• Harford County (Md.)--Social conditions--18th century

Genres

• Account books
• Codices
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

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