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Source: BBC Radio 4 "The Old Bill"

Roundup

Doctoring in 17c County Limerick [15min]

Thomas Arthur, an Irish doctor, kept his fee books from 1619 to 1666 in a neat Latin hand, leaving to posterity an incomparable record of the state of his nation's health. Richard Foster with stories which stem from that basic piece of a historians research -- a bill.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The Old Bill"