The collection includes a photocopy of Dr. Jenkins's account book from 1840-1848. It lists names of head of households, treatments, medicines and fees. Patients included John C. and Mrs. Calhoun.
Also included is a copy of a 1967 newspaper article about Dr. Jenkins by Joseph I. Waring.
Dr. William L. Jenkins was a Pendleton, South Carolina physician from approximately 1837 until his death in 1868. He served in the Confederate Army as a regimental surgeon.
0.05 Cubic Feet (89 pages, legal-size)
English
Donated by Lucille Watson, accession 68-4.
Copied from original which is in the Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository