A Medical Emergency
January 8, 2010 by eastwickpress · 1 Comment
Friday, September 3, 1852: Today we begin a piece of stone wall fence in my south meadow joining James M. Glass, and John Merrils worked for us a laying wall 3/4 of a day. Geo P. laid wall today and John drew stone with his ox team. I piled some brush and bundles that were in the way of laying wall and today I picked plums and picked up fall apples.
Saturday: This morning at two o’clock I went to Pittsfield with my horse and wagon and sold two bushel apples for one dol and half a bushel for twenty cents and sold about two bushel damson plums at two dollars per bushel and one bushel sugar plums by the small quantity at different prices. I paid one dollar for an ax at Smith and Morey’s store and I paid sixty cents for a long handle spade in to Pomeroy’s factory store. On the way home I took a letter out the post office to B. Nichols post paid from New Hartford from my two daughters on their visit west. Today my two sons tended to drawing stone and laying wall and John Merrils helped them.
Sunday: My wife and widow F. Wylie rode to Elder Sweet’s meeting with John F. to the Baptist church, then towards night to the lecture room.
Monday: I cut and drew a chestnut tree and chopped and split part of it to put into a wall and I picked plums. Today John Merrils laid up wall for us and John F. worked in the turnip ground. Today Geo P. bargained with a brick yard Shaker, to sell him the hay in the bay of Wm B. Maxon’s Zacheus Chapman barn for one hundred dollars and a stack of old hay in Salmon Owens meadow and three hundred bushels carrots and one hundred bushels turnips to be delivered on the premises for one hundred and twenty five dollars, and today brother F. Jay Wylie and two daughters Louisa and Mary came and took dinner. The Irish woman washed, I paid her 15 cts cash and one pound butter
Tuesday: Today Geo P. dug about thirty bushels of his June potatoes in the hill on his Maxon farm and Mrs. Lynch picked them up.
Wednesday: This morning at three o’clock Geo P. went and got Doctor Bates for his Mother for she has coromorbus or summer complaint. I paid Mrs Lynch 25 cts to iron. Today Geo P. carried the widow Freelove Wylie to the Baptist socialization and he helped some at the wall that John Merrils is building.
My son whoo lives in Stephentown NY has been mailing the articles in the Eastwick Press of George Holcomb since they started in the newspaper to nmy brother who lives in MA. My son and brother have visited the homesite because my brother is very interested in history. So in reading the latest article in which the word “coromorbus” was noted, my brother called me to ask its meaning. I was so surprised when I went on ssearch and the entire article appeared. I guess this word is no longer in the dictionary but the article did refer to “summer compalint”. What was “summer complaint” in 1852? Thank you so much.