6a. Daybook

Item — Box: 1, Volume: 7

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This collection of twelve of Thomas F. Madill's daybooks (1857-1892) spans almost his entire professional career and gives a comprehensive view of the daily practice of a country physician in the towns of central Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The daybook entries are chronological and provide each patient's name, a brief description of the medical work, and the charge involved. Many entries refer to pages in a ledger which has not survived as part of the collection. An interesting adjunct to the daybooks is a volume listing Madill's accounts which were turned over to William Lewis and John A. Codding, who was a professional bill collector in Wysox.

The William A. Madill daybook gives similar, though sketchy, information about this more obscure Pennsylvania physician and his practice. The three series of entries, 1859-1860, 1866, and 1881-1882, contain information similar to that found in the daybooks of Thomas F. Madill. The William A. Madill daybook also includes, however, a breakdown of his patients and charges by town most refer to towns in Bradford County.