Description
The Wood Family papers consist of office and some
household records of a multi-generational physicians' practice in Muncy
(Pennsborough), Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, from 1803 to approximately 1868,
with a few later items. In addition to 40 bound day books, which list patient
names, dates and short notations of treatment or medication, and ledgers, which
follow the payment history of each account, approximately 200 separate
manuscript sheets or scraps include invoices, promissory notes, receipts, legal
judgments, and a few letters. The collection also includes some printed
pamphlets and journals, a very few medical/surgical instruments, and three
photographs. The contents of these materials provide a small window on medical
treatments and therapeutics in one specific practice over 60-some years, plus a
rather good picture of the business lives and some insight into the personal
lives of these doctors.
Background
The Drs. Wood whose records comprise this collection descended from James
Wood "the Immigrant", who came from the British Isles to settle in
Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley ca. 1735, built a stone house on the Cumberland
Valley Pike which was still standing in 1948, and who died in 1750. One of his
grandsons:
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