Bloodletting and Germs: A Doctor in Nineteenth Century Rural New York

Traveling west in 1834, the newly graduated Dr. Jabez Allen becomes embroiled in the care of a dying child and attached to a village on New York's western frontier. When competing medical society doctors rebuff his license application, he conceals his medical practice by opening the first drugstore in rural New York. Soon Dr. Allen marries a village socialite who is an abolitionist and his bookish equal. His patients and family endure Consumption, Anthrax, Cholera, the Civil War and Melanch...