Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

R.D. Huffard Physician Account Book, 1893-1901. Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Tazewell County.

Historical Information

R.D. (Robert Davidson) Huffard was born in Wythe County in 1850. He studied medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and established a practice in Smyth County. In 1891, he moved to Tazewell County where he practiced until his death in 4 Novemebr 1898.

The account book was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Foote and Johnson and others versus Administrator of R.D. Huffard and others heard in the Tazewell County Circuit Court.

Scope and Content

R.D. Huffard Physician Account Book, 1893-1901, records the accounts of individual patients including African-Americans. Each account lists dates of transactions, charges and payments for visits to patients, medication, and medical services such as setting broken bones, obstetrical surgery including abortions, and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea.

Related Material

For additional information see the Tazewell County Chancery Cause, Foote and Johnson and others versus Administrator of R.D. Huffard and others, available electronically. Search the Chancery Records Index at the web site of the Library of Virginia. The index number is 1903-043.

Access Terms

Personal Name

• Huffard, R.D. (Robert Davidson), 1850-1898.

Subject Terms

• Abortion--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Gonorrhea--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Medicine--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Physicians--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Syphilis--Virginia--Tazewell County.

Geographic Terms

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

Record Type

• Account books--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Business records--Virginia--Tazewell County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Tazewell County.

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