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Preferred Citation

J. Farmer Physician Ledger, 1867-1898. Local government records collection, Pulaski County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Pulaski County under the accession number 43684.

Historical Information

J. Farmer was most likely Jerry Farmer who was born about 1836 in Virginia and was a physician in Dublin, Va., during the nineteenth century.

The volume was used as an exhibit in the chancery case Jerry Farmer vs. Heirs of Elbert S. Trinkle heard in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County.

Scope and Content

J. Farmer Physician Ledger, 1867-1898, records the accounts of individual patients. Entries are arranged in chronological order under the individual account name. Each entry includes the date, type of transaction, and the monies debited and credited. Each entry documents the name of the patient treated by listing self for the account holder, wife, child, or the patient's first name. Transactions include services rendered such as examinations, extraction of teeth, dressing wounds, and setting broken bones. Medicine purchases are also recorded and include such items as alcohol, castor oil, pills, cod liver oil, whiskey, iodine, pepsin, liniment, carbolic acid, and laudanum. There are also purchases for items not related to medicine -- corn, hay, lard, and butter.

Also included in the ledger is a loose letter from J. B. Jordan dated 7 January 1883 and addressed to Dr. Farmer. Jordan, most probably James B. Jordan (born about 1850) another physician in nearby Newbern, Virginia, requests that Farmer visit a sick patient while he is away attending to an obstetrical case.

Related Material

For additional information see the Pulaski (Va.) Chancery Cause, Jerry Farmer vs. Heirs of Elbert S. Trinkle. It can be found in the Chancery Records Index at the Library of Virginia. The index number is 1884-027.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Farmer, Jerry.

Subjects:

• Medicine--Virginia--Pulaski County.
• Physicians--Virginia--Pulaski County.

Geographical Names:

• Pulaski County (Va.)--History--19th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Business records--Virginia--Pulaski County.
• Ledgers (account books)--Virginia--Pulaski County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Pulaski County.

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