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The collection consists of a single account book listing patient names, services, charges, and payments for Dr. William C.
Nixon's medical practice in Floyd County, Georgia. His medical services included the dressing and setting of broken limbs
as well as removing splinters from them, the extraction of teeth, conducting of uterine exams, and the attendance of women
in parturition. Among the medicines he prescribed were opium, morphine, quinine, and paregoric. A cross-reference of Census
records reveal that Dr. Nixon treated African-American patients, including members of the Zuber family.
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