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[Identification of item], in the Itinerant Physician's Diary, #2181, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Microfilm of diary, 22 September 1812-25 September 1813, of an unnamed physician from Chesterfield, N.H., who traveled in the South to seek relief for his consumption. The volume contains an account of his journey through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, ending in Columbia County, Ga., near Augusta. There are detailed entries relating to practicing medicine and preparing drugs and remedies while looking for a healthy place to settle, as well as his accounts, a list of places where he stopped, descriptions of the country and people he observed, including comparison of Georgia and New Hampshire. The diary was left by the traveler at the home of Judge Thomas Cobb in Columbia County, Ga., in 1813.