Medical Accounts

Various accounts for the supply of medicines and for medical treatment:

1. Robert Barker to an unnamed apothecary, 1584-85.

2. Lady D'Oyly to an unnamed apothecary, 1688-95; Authorized by Dorothy D'Oyly for payment, 16 September 1700.

3. The Laird of Drylaw to David Fyffe, surgeon, Edinburgh, 1699.

4. Sir William Millman to John Acklom, apothecary in Castle Yard [London], 1706-1709.

5. George Humphey to Dr Richard Avent, 1715.

6. Capt. James Donglass to Joseph Gibson, surgeon, 1724; Produced in Leith.

7. The parish of Alfriston [Sussex] to Richard Alchorne, 1743.

8. James Beauchamp to Dr Thomas Smith, 1757-1763.

9-10 Mr Gibson to G Oliver, 1786.

11. Mrs Ellison to Robert Richardson, 1796.

12. Mrs Ferguson to Thomas Wilson, Stewarton, 1808.

13. William Griffin, Parish Overseer at Leighton [Leighton Bromswold, Hunts.] to A Fernie [Andrew Fernie, surgeon, Kimbolton, Hunts.] for medicines for Thomas Lyon, 1810.

14-16 William Aspland, of Wicken [Cambs.] to E L Knowles, surgeon, 1811-1839.

17. J. Brown deceased to J Baley, 1813-1814.

18-19 David Burnett deceased to Swanston & O'Maley, including a bill for a strait jacket, 1820.

20. W Norton deceased to Scott & Taynton, Bromley, Kent, 1825.

21. William Harrison deceased to Robert Otter Blythman [general practitioner, of Bawtry and Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorks]1827-1829.

22. Simon Metcalfe, of Dewsbury [Yorks.] to Dr [George] Fearnley, Bill dated 1864 but covering period 1856-1859.

1584-1864

22 items

Collected from various sources, c. 1921-1990.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).