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PART ONE

August 5, 1850

A.M.

Lansford Hawkins, age 48.

Complaint: Fevered, headache.

Diagnosis: Coriza. Consulted Wood’s Theory and Practice of Medicine.

Treatment: Dover’s Powder. At patient’s insistence cupped sixteen ounces of blood from left arm to remove morbific matter. Rest in bed two days.

Fee: Fifty cents. Paid in cash.

Clementine Crockett, age 58.

Complaint: Locked bowels.

Diagnosis: Same.

Treatment: Blue mass.

Fee: Fifty cents. Paid with twenty pounds flour.

P.M.

Summoned to Shelton Farm.

Maggie Shelton, age 25.

Complaint: Uterine bleeding. Seventh month with child.

Diagnosis: Physical exertings inducing early labor. Consulted Meigs’s Females and Their Diseases.

Treatment: Tincture valerian to relieve spasmodic tendency. Bed rest for week. No field work until month after child born. Black haw tea twice daily to lessen bleeding. Bloodstone for same though dubious of effectingness.

Fee: Two dollars. Paid with venison, two dozen eggs delivered next time in town.