Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon

Ledgers recording accounts for medical treatment and drugs dispensed. Patients included, as well as private individuals, the Oxfordshire and Herefordshire militias, the poor of various parishes, and the local bridewell. On the front covers are annotations by Dr B E A Batt and his father Dr C D Batt, including the names of Edward Batt (1741-1797), surgeon and apothecary, and Augustine William Batt (1774-1847), MRCS Eng. Both practised in Witney.

1744-1799

2 volumes

Deposited on permanent loan by Dr B E A Batt, 1967.

Further details of the family, with a genealogical table, are given in W L Parry-Jones, The trade in lunacy (London, 1972).

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).