Manuscript daybook of colonial Connecticut physician Thomas Toucey by (Medicine-Connecticut) Toucey, Thomas - 1758

Newtown, CT, 1758. 134 pp in ink. 4 x 6 inches. Disbound. Browned and brittle, excisions to a small number of leaves. 134 pp in ink. 4 x 6 inches. Newtown's first physician. Daybooks covering seven years in the practice of Dr. Thomas Toucey, the first physician in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. Treatments of several dozen citizens of Newtown are recorded, with several patients of Stratford and Reading noted as well. Medicaments given by Tousey include lavender, camphor, ammoniac, balsam, oil of juniper, blister and fever plasters, etc.
In addition to being Newtown's first physician, Toucey (1688-1761) was Newtown's first minister, a post he held from 1715-1724. He graduated Yale in 1707. His great grandson, Isaac Tousey, became governor of Connecticut in 1846.