Luther Mosely Daybook
Homeopathic physician from Arlington, Vermont. Daybook contains patients’ names, including many women, identification of some cases (such as vaccination, extraction of teeth, treatment of swellings, fractures, and burns, and the delivery of babies), methods of treatment (such as purges, bleeding, cupping, and the use of blistering ointments), prices for his services, and method and form of payment (including goods such as fruits, vegetables, meats, clothes, and services such as butchering and timbering). Also contains personal entries and notation of goods he sold such as poultry, leathers, and fabrics.
Subjects
- Arlington (Vt.)--Social conditions--19th century
- Canfield family
- Contraception--Vermont--Arlington--History--19th century
- Hard family
- Homeopathic physicians--Vermont--Arlington
- Matteson family
- Medicine--Practice--Vermont--19th century
- Milligan family
- Oatman family
- Pessaries
- Purdy family
- Women--Medical care--Vermont--Arlington--19th century
Contributors
- Mosely, Luther, 1807-
Types of material
- Account books
- Daybooks