Isaiah Alden daybook

Collection — Volume: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/055

Scope and Contents

Daybook of I. L. Alden’s medical practice in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties, Me., 22 June 18769 Sept. 1877. Daybook lists income accounts chronologically with patient’s name, date, charge, and brief explanation. Includes accounts with towns of Jay and East Livermore and extensive notes on case of paracentesis thoracis, 1877.

Dates

Creation: 1876 - 1877

Creator

Alden, I. L. (Isaiah Leavitt) (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Isaiah Leavitt Alden, Livermore Falls, Me., physician, was born on 8 June 1846. He received an M.D. from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1869 and attended the 1877 annual meeting of the Maine Medical Association. I. L. Alden died on 1 July 1886.

Full Extent

1 volume

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

Genre / Form

Ledgers (account books)

Topical

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Isaiah Alden daybook
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin

Physical Storage Information

Volume: 1 (Text)

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Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository

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