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Pioneer Doctor

Pioneer Doctor

Moorman, Lewis J.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMedical ReferenceRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 0806148632
ISBN13: 9780806148632
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pioneer Doctor is the story of a half-century of medical practice, from the early days in Oklahoma Territory to metropolitan conditions. Lewis J. Moorman, M.D., once told a patient who apologized for calling him out late at night, You must remember, I started with a team of Indian ponies twenty miles from a railroad.

Moorman's experiences run the gamut of human ills and situations--of childbirth in a barn loft, the faith healer who infected a whole community with an itch, the mother who was sure her child had a case of the go-backs. He tells of encounters with Indians who needed medical help; the horrifying effects of gunshot and knife wounds; and the spiritual response of patients stricken with tuberculosis.

In the literature of medical practice, Dr. Moorman's association with Old Billy, his horse, approaches near-classic proportions. Obtained as payment for a long-overdue medical bill, Old Billy had a balky disposition--until the good doctor decided to talk things over with him one day. What follows offers a rare account of the relationship between a man and his horse.

Pioneer Doctor stands as an entertaining and informative memoir, but its social and cultural significance is clear. For here is apparent a tremendous transformation as countless young physicians like Moorman went out from Louisville Medical College, covering the plains with horse-and-buggy doctors.

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