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Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State (New Books For New Readers)

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Most towns didn’t have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception. Kentucky’s first real hospital opened in 1823, nevertheless it used to be in Louisville―too far away to serve many Kentucky communities, especially in cases of emergency. For this and other reasons, the lifespan of the average Kentuckian in the 1800s used to be only 40 years. Lately it has grown to 75, and trained medical professionals are to be had to most communities all the way through the state. Healing Kentucky tells how medical care changed in Kentucky over 200 years and became the much safer and better system we know Lately. It also describes early healing practices and methods used to handle the unwell in the days before protected hospitals, even on Civil War battlefields. From cholera epidemics to polio and plastic surgery, readers will learn much about the individuals who shaped medicine in Kentucky.

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