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>         Sometime last spring, I recall conversations on this list about
> excavations of pharmacies. Can anyone (without going to too much trouble)
> provide citations (even of gray lit.) for excavations of doctors offices,
> medical schools, hospitals, and pharmacies. Please feel free to respond to
> me directly so as not to tie up the list.  Thanks in advance.
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>                 Eric L. Larsen          [log in to unmask]
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Eric,
 
I am presently writing up two excavations here in Richmond, Va. One
was a cadaver pit for the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) and the
other was a series of houselots, middens, privvies, etc. occupied
first by a free black surgeon/barber in the 1780-1800 period, then by
a series of both white and black doctors. The latest occupation we
worked on was the house, office and yard of a physician and former
dean of the faculty of MCV (1870s-80s). I don't have reports to offer,
but I'll be happy to kibbitz if I can be of any help.
 
Dan Mouer
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