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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Physicians' Account Books, #598-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1957.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Account books.
• Albemarle Region (N.C.)--History.
• Collins, Josiah, 1808-1863.
• Hardison, Hardy, fl. 1849-1866.
• Medicine--Practice--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Pettigrew family.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History.

• Pettigrew Family Papers (#592-z).

The collection is account books of physicians with patients in Wilmington, N.C., and the Albemarle region, N.C. The Wilmington volume is of an unidentified physician, 1855-1862, and includes indications of some patients' diseases, hospital records, and information on various other matters. The volume for the Albemarle region may have been kept by Dr. Hardy Hardison; it consists chiefly of accounts of professional visits to patients such as Josiah Collins and members of the Pettigrew, Phelps, Spruill, Sawyer, and Davenport families, 1849-1866. Also in this volume are accounts for ice by year, 1853-1855.