Medicine in Kentucky (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookself Series)

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In this informed and entertaining essay, John H. Ellis describes the efforts of physicians and laymen to keep illness at bay all through Kentucky’s first 200 years. Medicine in Kentucky is a part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, “a celebration of two centuries of the history and culture of The Commonwealth.”

John H. Ellis outlines the practice and development of medicine in Kentucky from the state of medical practices all through the colonial era and the paucity of trained practitioners, to the frontier doctors of the early days of Westward expansion, to the founding of the first medical school chartered in the West, Transylvania University.

Ellis also details probably the most regularly encountered diseases, the more than a few types of practitioners (allopaths, herb doctors, Thomsonians, and homeopaths), and the more than a few, normally short-lived publications and medical societies of nineteenth century Kentucky. He highlights two native Kentuckians, Joseph Nathaniel McCormack, principal architect of the present structure of the AMA, and Abraham Flexner, whose “Medical Education in the USA and Canada” is among the great landmarks in the field, whether one feels that he laid the foundation for modern scientific medical education or merely set in concrete nineteenth century scientism as the basis for medical education.

Although dealing mainly with Kentucky medicine, it reflects also on the happenings in medicine across the country.

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