Medical bill from James Colman to the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1763 January 7

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Creator: Colman, James.

Type: Invoices.

Language: English

Origin: Massachusetts

Description: 1 manuscript.

Date: 1763

Repository: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Identifier: colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu/990145783360203941

Subjects

Delivery of Health Care--history

Medical fees

Medical care--Massachusetts--History

Medicine--Practice--Accounting

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Content Notes

Itemized bill rendered to the Province of of Massachusetts Bay on 7 January 1763 by Dr. James Colman of Worcester for the nursing and board of a sick soldier over four weeks in December 1762 and January 1763. The invoice includes a charge of five shillings, eleven pence for five quarts and one pint of rum administered to the soldier.

Biographical Notes

James Colman was a physician active in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1760s.