Author: King, Willis Percival [1839-1909]
Title: Stories of a Country Doctor
Description: Philadelphia, Hummel and Parmele, 1891. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 397,(8) pp. Original illustrated cloth. Name on flyleaf.. Textual illustrations.. Some rubbing. Small cover stain. Good. ¶ Includes 10pp medical advertisements. Author "former Vice-President of the American Medical Association, Ex-President of the Missouri State Medical Association...Physician and Surgeon to the Pettis County (Mo.) Jail and Poor House; & Ex-Physician and Surgeon to the Branch Water Man and his Folks". Contents: The West; Education & Pioneer Schools; Old Time Dances & Parties; Civilization & Pioneer Weddings; Peculiarities of Pioneer People; Then & Now; Superstions, Tradtions & Foolish Ideas; Preacher, Doctors; Midvives & Nurses; The Branch-Water Man; The Ups & Downs in Early Practice;Benevolent Designs; Death Bed Repentence & Confessions; Sham Suicides; Liars & Their Lies; Consultations & the Code; People Who Annoy Doctors; Did He Kill His Wife? Going Back to College; Quacks and Quackery.

Keywords: American Medical History, United States, Missouri, West, Quacks Quackery, Rural Medicine, Anecdotes, Humor,