Day Book of Dr. Minich 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.
of Freedom
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