The John P. McGovern Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents have been fully processed and digitized, and a finding aid is available here: https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ms-021.

This collection, donated by Dr. John P. McGovern, includes medical ledgers, bills, apothecary receipts, legal documents, colonization contracts, a book about effects of climate and weather changes on disease and death, correspondence, legislative and government records, official government seals, Republic-era currency, and more! All historical documents in this collection have been digitized and can be viewed and accessed John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents.

The records in this collection were created primarily by Texas-based physicians and surgeons during the pre-Republic era to the beginning of the 20th century, making it the oldest collection of historical documents in the McGovern Historical Center repository.

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Submissions from 1897

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Sworn oath affirming no exposure to yellow fever in the past 20 days, George D. Neal

Submissions from 1894

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The Climate of Texas in Relations to the Distribution of Diseases and the Effects of Climate and Weather Changes in Causing Diseases and Deaths, Issac Monroe Cline

Submissions from 1893

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Yellow Fever Quarantine Proclamation, James S. Hogg

Submissions from 1878

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Correspondence, Henry Eustice McCullough

Submissions from 1875

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Notice to clean/sanitize property issued by the Office of the Health Physician in Galveston, TX, George W. Peete

Submissions from 1871

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Hospital ledger, St. Mary's Infirmary

Submissions from 1870

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Receipt for medical and post-mortem services, Greenville S. Dowell

Submissions from 1866

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Receipt for medicine purchased, E F. Schmidt

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Certificate of election, Ashbel Smith

Submissions from 1864

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Confederate voucher for medicine, W H. Elliot

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Correspondence, William R. Smith

Submissions from 1861

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Receipt for medicine purchased, H. C.L. Aschoff

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War Tax Receipt for five dollars in Confederate Treasury notes, James Nagle

Submissions from 1860

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Receipt for the capture of fugitive enslaved person, E S. Alexander

Submissions from 1858

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Itemized bill and probate claim for medical services, medications rendered, Edward Randall

Submissions from 1848

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Notarized legal document requesting payment for medical services, F. Earest Baumgarten

Submissions from 1846

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Legal summons, William M. Carper

Submissions from 1845

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Ledger of medical services, prescriptions provided, M G. Durham

Submissions from 1844

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Treasury warrant, Joseph Henry Barnard

Submissions from 1843

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Probate claim, W L. Adkins

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Order granting partition of estate property, Joseph Henry Barnard

Submissions from 1842

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Government Joint Resolution for reimbursement of services and supplies provided to the Republic of Texas, Anson Jones

Submissions from 1841

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Land tax receipt, John Gordon Chalmers

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Itemized bill for medical services, medicine, Lyciersus E. Griffith

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Legal instrument binding William King to pay monetary and territorail obligations owed, William P. King