I decided I had better briefly explain what a daybook is, since it's an old-fashioned term. It literally means a book where day-to-day transactions are recorded. What those transactions are can encompass many things. It may also mean a diary or a journal, or in more current times, a blog. Blog is such a blot of a word. I prefer to use daybook to define my writing for you.
This is the daybook of Dr. James Carmichael, Fredericksburg, Virginia. The daybook, a record of credits and debits to his medical practice between 1816 and 1817. It is housed in the Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Carmichael Letters :: "Patient's Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia"
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