Bibliograph

Healing Kentucky, medicine in the Bluegrass State, Nancy Disher Baird

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Healing Kentucky, medicine in the Bluegrass State, Nancy Disher Baird

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Healing Kentucky

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

753966276

Responsibility statement

Nancy Disher Baird

Series statement

New books for new readers

Sub title

medicine in the Bluegrass State

Summary

From the pioneering Danville surgeon Ephraim McDowell, the first doctor to successfully perform abdominal surgery, and Luke Blackburn, dubbed the "Hero of Hickman" and elected governor in 1879 after his efforts to combat yellow fever, to contemporary Kentucky doctors performing groundbreaking reconstructive surgery and artificial heart implants, Healing Kentucky tells the story of the two-hundred-year struggle to provide good health care to all Kentuckians. Nancy Disher Baird describes Lexington schoolteacher Linda Neville's mission to treat the eye disease trachoma in rural Kentucky, Louise Caudill's efforts to pen the first hosptial in Morehead, the 1833 cholera epidemic, and many other important episodes in medicine in Kentucky

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