Medical bill from Isaac Rand to Thomas Greenough, 1778 April 30

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Creator: Rand, Isaac , 1743-1822

Type: Invoices.

Language: English

Origin: Massachusetts

Description: 1 manuscript.

Date: 1778

Repository: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Identifier: colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu/990146067030203941

Subjects

Rand, Isaac

Patient Care--history

Medical fees

Medicine--Massachusetts--History

Medicine--Practice--Accounting

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Content Notes

Receipted medical bill from Dr. Isaac Rand (1743-1822), of Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Greenough, for medical services rendered from 1777 to 1778, which included visiting and administering medicines to Greenough and his servant, and inoculating Greenough's granddaughter for smallpox, for which he charged six pounds.

Biographical Notes

Isaac Rand (1743-1822), A.B., 1761, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied medicine with his father Isaac Rand, Sr. (1719-1791), and James Lloyd (1728-1810), before establishing his medical practice in Boston in 1764. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1781 and served as its president from 1798 to 1804. Rand also was elected an Overseer of Harvard in 1810.