Joseph Coleman Carter medical account books
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Joseph Coleman Carter medical account books
- Date
- 1859-1892 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 1.35 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Medical records -- Kentucky -- Woodford County.
- Medicine -- Practice -- Kentucky.
- Physicians -- Kentucky -- Woodford County.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 53m7 : [identification of item], Joseph Coleman Carter medical account books, 1859-1892, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Joseph Coleman Carter moved with his parents to Woodford County, Kentucky in 1809. He studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Drake in Cincinnati from 1827-1832 and in 1832 graduated from the Ohio Medical College. He married Margaret T. Carlyle that year and began practicing medicine in Woodford County. He was active in the treatment of victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832-1833.
- Scope and Content
- The Joseph Coleman Carter medical account books (dated 1859-1892; 1.35 cubic feet; 3 boxes) comprise ledgers that document the nineteenth century Woodford County, Kentucky physician's practice, with accounts of his patients' visits, treatments, and payments. Most volumes contain alphabetical name indexes and some detail patient birth and death dates. Later ledgers were maintained by the doctor who took over the practice after Carter's death.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
1859-1860
1860-1861
1862-1863
1864
1865
1868-1870
1898-1870, 1888-1891
1871-1874
1873-1874
1876-1881, 1892
1878-1887
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