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Title:
Medical fees
Date:
ND
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers relating to medical fees in the colonies.
The Indian medicine man collected his fee of wampam, pottery, furs, etc. as payment even before he agreed to work on a patient.
Colonial medical literature indicates that doctors in those days varied as much in their attitude toward what was adequate remuneration as they do today.






30 pages
Object ID:
DOC.ND03222
Object Name:
Misc. papers
Collection:
Medicine – Doctors, etc.
People:
Lord, Thomas
Porter, Daniel
Gunn, Jasper
Crow
Goodwin, William
Endicott, John (Dr.)
Clark, John
Basset, Peter (Dr.)

Skinner, Richard
Winthrop, Dr.
Stafford, Edward (Dr.)
Laborie, James
Liron, Lewis
Pratt, John
Blatchford, Peter
Roberts, Timothy

Hollingsworth, Richard
Greenough, Henry
Oliver, Thomas
Hawkins, Thomas
Harper, William
Dexter, Thomas
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