Medicine -- Kentucky

Content Description

Compiled and written by the Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; sponsored by State Department of Health of Kentucky and the Kentucky State Medical Association. Microfilmed by University of Louisville, 1978. Originally published: Louisville, Kentucky by the Standard Printing Co., Inc., 1940.

Content Description Letters from Short to his brother, John Cleves Short, of Shorthill, Hamilton County, Ohio, and correspondence with his daughters, Mary Churchill (Short) Richardson, Jane Short, and Sarah Elizabeth Short, concerning land holdings, sale of bonds, especially railroad bonds, medical affairs in the Ohio River Valley, seeds received from California and from Sir William Hooker, of Kew Gardens, England, plants and seeds sent to European collectors, and family matters; together with a typescript of A...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains administrative records from the project; bioqraphies of health professionals; information on schools of medicine, dentistry, nursinq, pharmacy, and public health in Kentucky; professional orqanizations and other societies; hospitals and related institutions; public health orqanizations; and miscellaneous health topics.