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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Wood Family Papers and Medical Practice Records, 1803-1903

Collection number:
310

Creator:
Thomas Wood [the Elder] (1780-1826) and Thomas Wood [the Younger] (1801-1866] 1780-1866

Extent:
3 storage cartons
2 document boxes
(3.8 linear feet)

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract:
The Wood Family papers consist of office and some household records of a multi-generational physicians' practice in Muncy (Pennsborough), Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, from 1803 to approximately 1868, with a few later items. In addition to 40 bound day books, which list patient names, dates and short notations of treatment or medication, and ledgers, which follow the payment history of each account, approximately 200 separate manuscript sheets or scraps include invoices, promissory notes, receipts, legal judgments, and a few letters. The collection also includes some printed pamphlets and journals, a very few medical/surgical instruments, and three photographs. The contents of these materials provide a small window on medical treatments and therapeutics in one specific practice over 60-some years, plus a rather good picture of the business lives and some insight into the personal lives of these doctors.

Physical location:
History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Collection materials in English

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