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Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State - New Books for New Readers
Nancy Disher Baird
Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State - New Books for New Readers
Nancy Disher Baird
Tells the story of the 200 year struggle to provide good health care to all Kentuckians. This book describes Lexington schoolteacher Linda Neville's mission to treat the eye disease trachoma in rural Kentucky, Louise Caudill's efforts to open the first hospital in Morehead, the 1833 cholera epidemic, and other important episodes in medicine.
62 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 12, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780813109145 |
Publishers | The University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 64 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 3 mm · 99 g |