This medical journal was written between 1839 and 1891 by H.B. Mathiot, a physician who lived in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Included are notes on anatomy, recipes for medicine, lists of patients (races noted), and recording of births. Mathiot studied medicine in Newark, Ohio from 1837 to 1840 and began practicing in Smithfield, Pennsylvania afterwards. He eventually graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1852. Mathiot was also ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1872; there is a list of people whom he married. The transcribed journal is attached.

"HENRY BERNARD MATHIOT, an old and skilled physician and a prominent citizen of Fayette county, is a son of George and Ruth (Davies) Mathiot, and was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Pa., August 30, 1815. 

Dr. H. B. Mathiot received a limited common-school education, and while yet a mere boy, began for himself the battle of life. He trudged forty miles on foot through the snow to engage as a clerk with his brother at Ross Iron Works. Subsequently read medicine with Dr. Anderton Brown of Newark, Ohio, for three years (1837 to 1840), when he returned to Fayette county and began the practice of medicine at Smithfield, as an undergraduate, a common custom at that time in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in the class of 1852, and has successfully practiced medicine at Smithfield ever since. For the past year or so, however, he has been trying to retire from active practice. On March 19, 1844, he married Miss Rebecca Ruth, daughter of Col. Thomas Brownfield. They had born to them ten children, of whom four are now living: Caroline; Ida M. F., wife of Dr. Longanecker (see his sketch): Dr. Edward B., and Perie A. Dr. Edward B., graduated in 1882, from Jefferson Medical College, and practiced at West Newton, Pa., until 1888. Since 1888 has been in attendance at the celebrated medical schools of Gormany and France to fit himself as a specialist.

“His domestic life has been most fortunate and happy. His wife has been a helpmeet in the grandest sense. Her husband's comfort and her childrens' happiness have been her greatest care, and to her wifely devotion he is largely indebted for the comforts of his home, the hospitable doors of which are ever open. It is proverbial that no house in the community entertains so many persons,friends and strangers, as Dr. Mathiot's. He is an earnest and persuasive public speaker, and for a quarter of a century his voice has been heard in advocacy of every moral, temperance and religious movement that has agitated the community in which he lives.”

Of indomitable will and iron constitution, Dr. Mathiot has achieved a successful career in life over apparently insurmountable obstacles. He was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church by Bishop Simpson in 1872, and has given his services religiously as well as medically, freely alike to rich and poor. He was a whig and is now a republican; was twice a candidate for the legislature, running ahead of his ticket but was defeated each time. Dr. Mathiot is of that class of men who make their mark in whatever station in life to which they aspire."

Excerpt from: John M. Gresham (Editor), Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1889. Pages 512-513

This medical journal was written between 1839 and 1891 by H.B. Mathiot, a physician who lived in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Included are notes on anatomy, recipes for medicine, lists of patients (races noted), and recording of births. Mathiot studied medicine in Newark, Ohio from 1837 to 1840 and began practicing in Smithfield, Pennsylvania afterwards. He eventually graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1852. Mathiot was also ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1872; there is a list of people whom he married.  The transcribed journal is attached.