(SLAVERY) Accounts for a physician hired to treat enslaved p

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(SLAVERY.) Accounts for a physician hired to treat enslaved people on a Georgia plantation. 3 manuscript sheets, each 6 inches wide and totaling 26 inches in length; folds, minor wear and foxing. [Sumter County, GA], 1835-1838

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Running account between Sumter County, GA plantation owner Colonel John Basil Lamar (1812-1862) and physician Marcus A. Franklin. Some or all of the dozens of entries relate to the care of enslaved laborers, including one named as a Negro and many others named only by first name, including prescriptions for cathartics, treatments for diarrhea, eye wash, and "examination vagina Adelaide." 3 sheets spanning services from January 1835 to December 1837, each receipted by the physician's representative in January 1838.