Day Book of Dr. Minich
of Freedom

The following is a list of entries in the day book of Dr.A.J. Minich of Freedom for the year of 1868. Dr. Minich treated over one hundred families a year in addition to also farming. There are several surnames within this book, these are only a few selections.

Patient Date Medicine/Service Rendered Price Charged/Money Collected
William Holman Jan 1 Account Payment Cash paid in full $5.00
William F. Williams Jan 2 visit & medicine for wife $3.00
John Blanton Jan 4 Account Payment Credit to acct. 2 bushels of meal $2.00
James McIndoo Jr. Jan 4 for salts 25 cents
James Defore Jan 4 visit to child & lancing abcess $1.00
Abb Antibus Jan 5 Account Payment By laying hearth 25 cents
Jess Patterson Jan 8 call & medicine for son $1.00
Dan Williams Jan 8 account Payment by resetting shoes on mule
William F. Williams Jan 11 visit & Medicine for wife in night $3.00
Eliza Tally Jan 12 Box of Blue Pills 50 cents
John St. Clair Jan 15 visit to wife to deliver boy $8.00
James Nickles Jan 16 visit to wife to deliver girl $8.00
Joseph L. Hicks Jan 30 Account Payment by hauling ice 1/2 day-50 cents
David McBride Feb 1 worm medicine 50 cents
William Firebaugh Feb 2 medicine for wife $1.00
John Foster Jan 3 worm medicine 50 cents
Henry Boruff Jan 3 medicine for self(no cure,no pay) $1.00
Louis Bolen Jan 8 visit & medicine for self $3.00
Vol Ritter Jan 8 lancing breast & medicine for wife/payment $1.50/$5.00 cash paid
Armp. Dyar Feb 13 lancing breast for wife 50 cents
Bluford Abrell Feb 14 visit to wife to deliver boy child $8.00
Bluford Abrell Feb 27 bottle of linament 50 cents
Joseph Hicks Sr. Feb 27 Account Payment groceries/$1.40
Joseph Hicks Sr. March 2 Account Payment oisters & crackers/$2.00
John St. Clair March 9 Ague medicine for child 75 cents
Abb Antibus March 9 medicine for horse $1.25
Wilson Zellers March 25 Eye Water 50 cents
Lyge Duling April 8 visit to wife consult w/Gantz $5.00
Patrick White April 20 Quinine $1.00
Sol Williams April 30 Account Payment 20 bushels of corn/$12.00
Simp Putoff April 30 medicine for cough $1.00
Marion Franklin April 30 ague medicine for child $1.00
Jacob Abrell May 1 visit to wife to deliver girl $7.50
Widow Leonard May 1 medicine for Julia 75 cents
Sarah Rowland June 5 box of Cook's Pills no charge listed
Louis Bolen Jr. June 28 arsenic 25 cents
John Wise July 2 blister salve 25 cents
W. Prewet July 5 visit to wife to deliver boy $5.00
George Hinton July 5 visit to wife to deliver boy $7.00
Wilson Zellers August 17 visit to wife to deliver girl $8.50
Jobe Hicks August 17 visit & Medicine for child $2.50
Stog Lundy Sept 1 visit & medicine for preacher $1.00 credit for fixing ox yoak
Andrew Neumeyer Sept 1 call/visit & medicine to son & dau $1.50
John A.V. Fiscus Sept 3 Account Payment shoeing mule all around
John Duck McKee Sept 3 Account Payment by getting out timbers
Jesse Patterson Sept 7 visit & medicine for Charley (night) $3.50
John A.V. Fiscus Sept 7 Account Payment shoeing mule all around
Burt Hardy Sept 7 visit & medicine for child $2.50/Cash payment $2.00
George Weatherly Sept 13 medicine for horse 25 cents
Jacob L.C. Abrell Sept 13 Account Payment by cash in full to date $7.50
Mr. Thornton Oct 8 visit to wife to deliver boy (all over) $2.00
James McClaren Oct 8 Account Payment 100 lbs. flour/$5.00
Josh Franklin Oct 8 Account Payment Cash payment $25.00
Alex Wiley Oct 10 visit to wife to deliver girl $7.00
Sam Myers Oct 10 visit to child & lancing face $3.00
Curg Wood Oct 13 visit to wife to deliver girl $7.50
Cread White Oct 13 worm medicine for child 75 cents
John (Hock) Scott Oct 13 eye medicine for self $1.00
Noah White Oct 13 salve for foot 50 cents
Daniel Firebaugh Nov 1 Account Payment 35 lbs dried peaches/$3.00
John Cory Nov 3 Account Payment 41 lbs of peaches/$4.00
Solomon Fiscus Nov 7 Account Payment 165 1/2 lbs. flour/$8.27 1/2 and 4 bu. buckwheat
John Ooley Nov 10 ague medicine 75 cents
Oleander Price Nov 10 visit to wife to deliver girl $7.00
John Hart Nov 18 sold 65 head of cabbage $8.50
John Nelson Nov 29 call & medicine for child 75 cents
John L. Stutz Nov 29 medicine for George 25 cents/paid
Ed Henderson Nov 29 visit & lancing thumb for wife 75 cents
John Light Dec 25 visit & medicine for sons $2.50
James McIndoo Jr. Dec 25 visit & medicine for wife $2.00
John Clarry Dec 25 visit & medicine for self $1.00
Jobe Hicks Dec 25 visit & medicine for child $1.00
William Reeves Dec 25 account Payment Cash $4.00
Milt Johnson Dec 25 visit & medicine for self $1.75
















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