Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society volume 2
Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society volume 2
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, " which was not in use among practitioners much before 1670, was without doubt the earliest and most prominent settled Salem physi- cian of the seventeenth century, his practice covering a period of fifty years. He was granted land in Salem upon his set- tlement in 1636, at the age of about twenty-seven years, but the house in which he lived as early as 1657 was situated at the corner of the present Washington and Norman streets, and, indeed, a portion of the old building now standing there i...s believed by Mr. Sidney Perley to be a part of Dr. Emery's original house. When the services of the midwives and the dispensers of concoctions of herbs fail to produce a cure, it was doubtless Dr. Emery who was called to the Farms to ex- ercise the "skill of his art. " He received a grant of land very ■early near the Orchard farm. His name appears frequently as a witness to or an execu- tor of wills and an appraiser of estates. In the Quarterly €ourt records of Essex county, there is occasional reference to actions brought by him against various neighbors for neglect to pay for services, showing that the Puritans were no more desirous of paying their doctor's bills than some of their descendants.
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