Title: Notebook of Benjamin Webb,
Authors: Webb, Benjamin.; Webb, Benjamin,
Year: 1789
Subjects: Delivery of Health Care history; Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Materia medica.; Medicine History; Medicine History; Medicine Practice Accounting; Accounts Payable and Receivable; Fees and Charges; History of Medicine; Materia Medica history
Abstract: Volume containing medical notes on symptoms and treatment of conditions including gonorrhea, hernia, and scirrhous tumors; recipes for medicines, such as a mercury-based linament; and some patient case histories and medical accounts, dated 1789-1831. There are also extracts of a letter from a Philadelphia physician concerning putrid fever and legal writings on the powers of sheriffs and constables, among other topics, in an unknown hand, as well as some notes on farming and household accounts. The name Benjamin Webb and the phrase "Gift of Nathan Webb Junr." are inscribed on the flyleaf alongside the date of 20 August 1791.