Medical bill from Ebenezer Putnam to John Clark, 1751 May-1755 September

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Creator: Putnam, Ebenezer , 1717-1788

Type: Invoices.

Language: English

Origin: Massachusetts

Description: 1 manuscript.

Date: 1755

Repository: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Identifier: colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu/990065404000203941

Subjects

Patient Care--history

Medical fees

Medicine--Practice--Accounting

Medicine--Massachusetts--History

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Fees and Charges

History of Medicine

Content Notes

Itemized bill rendered to John Clark for medical services provided in Salem, Massachusetts, by Dr. Ebenezer Putnam (1717-1788), A.B., 1739, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 1751 to September 1755. Putnam administered assorted medicines, including emetics, and also dressed a leg wound and bled Clark during multiple visits.

Biographical Notes

Ebenezer Putnam (1717-1788), A.B., 1739, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a physician active in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1750s.