Medical bills from James Otis and Isaac Otis to Scituate (Mass.), 1756-1760

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Creator: Otis, James , 1734-1807

Type: Invoices.

Language: English

Origin: Massachusetts

Description: 2 manuscripts.

Repository: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Identifier: colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu/990146080860203941

Subjects

Delivery of Health Care--history

Medical fees

Poor--Medical care--Massachusetts--History

Medicine--Practice--Accounting

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Fees and Charges

History of Medicine

Patient Care--history

Massachusetts

Scituate (Mass.)

Content Notes

Consists of one medical bill to the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Dr. James Otis (1734-1807) and Dr. Isaac Otis (1699-1777) for medical services rendered to a woman from 1755 to 1756, which included dressing her leg and administering cathartics; and one medical bill from James Otis to the selectmen of Scituate for medicines and attendance to a French man in 1760.

Biographical Notes

James Otis (1734-1807) and Isaac Otis (1699-1777) were physicians active in Scituate, Massachusetts, between the 1750s and 1760s.