Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State

Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception. Kentucky's first real hospital opened in 1823, but it was 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 was only 40 years. Today it has grown to 75, and trained medical professionals are available to most communities throughout the state. Healing Ken

Author: Nancy Disher Baird
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.32w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780813109145

About the Author

Nancy Disher Baird is a librarian and specialist in Kentucky history at the Kentucky Library (Special Collections) at Western Kentucky University.

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