Iowa Old Press
DuBuque Visitor
Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Wisconsin Territory*
Saturday, August 12, 1837
MARRIED – At the residence of Charles
Gratiot, Rip Row Furnace, on Thursday last by the Rev. Mr.
Mazznchell, MR. JOHN P. SCOTT to MISS MARY L. GRATIOT, daughter
of the late Col. Henry Gratiot of Gratiot Grove, W. T.
MARRIED – On the 1st inst., by the Rev. E.
G. Gear, MR. CHARLES MASON to MISS ANGELICA GEAR, both of Galena.
$10 REWARD
STRAYED from the stable of the subscriber, about the
middle of April last, a light bay French pony, seven years old
this spring, about 13½ hands high, blaze face, short mane, no
other marks recollected. The above reward will be given to any
person who will deliver said horse to me at this place.
PASCHAL MALLETT
Du Buque, July 1, 1837
DOCTOR JOHN STODDARD
RETURNS his sincere thanks to the citizens of Du Buque,
for the liberal share of public patronage which he has received,
and takes this opportunity of informing them, that he intends a
permanent residence in Du Buque, and hopes, from skill and
attention, to merit a countenance of patronage he has already
received.
To prevent misunderstandings, and silence false reports, he
herewith presents a list of his charges for medicine and
professional services, by which he has heretofore been, and
hereafter be, governed.
Visits in town by day, 1 dollar; by night 2 dollars: ex officio
services, one dollar per hour; obstetrical services and
attendance, from 10 dollars to 50, as the case may be.
Consultations with other physicians fee, 10 dollars; adding
mileage when in the country, in all cases in the day, one dollar,
in the night, double.
The fee in surgical cases, will be regulated in the according to
the importance of the case. Medicines, Emetics, and Cathartics
simple, 25 cents, compounded, one dollar; Febrifugo pulverized,
simple, 12½ cts., compound, 25 cents to one dollar; Tonics,
pulverized, 25 cents per dose; Tincture from 50 to 75 cts. per
oz.; Epispastic from 50 cents to one dollar; all other medicines
in proportion.
Those laboring under chronic diseases of the Liver, Dyspepsia,
Scrofula, King’ Evil, White Swelling, Rheumatism, and
particular female laboring under Uterine diseases may possibly
derive benefit form consultation and advising with DOCTOR JOHN
STODDARD.
[transcribed by C.M., December 2018]
[*IOP editor note: Wisconsin was organized from Michigan Territory in July 1836 and encompassed the land that now is the state of Iowa. Iowa Territory wasn't organized until 1838, and became a state in 1846.]