Finding Aid for the Louis A. Livingood Account Book Biomed.0711
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
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Title: Louis A. Livingood account book
Creator:
Livingood, Louis A.
source:
Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0711
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 account book)
Date (inclusive): 1883-1894
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Palinurus Antiquarian Books, 2010.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9964636133606533
[Identification of item], Louis A. Livingood account book (Collection 711). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and
Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
A manuscript record of physician Louis A. Livingood's medical practice in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, a borough east of Harrisburg
and north of Lancaster, from 1883 through 1894. New entries were added chronologically on 640 [i.e., 641] of 696 pages in
a pre-bound, lined ledger. Each page is headed by the name of a head of household; patient visits and reasons are entered
chronologically in two columns, along with fees charged. Additional handwritten notes, describing Livingood's obligations
to certain patients for other products or services for himself, are pinned to or laid-in alongside the name of the community
member.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books