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Back to Historic Brattonsville Home pages>> "I commenced practice of medicine..." Healing in Nineteenth Century York CountyA medicine box and portable microscope, such as these on display in the exhibition, might have been carried by 19th century physicians on visits to their patients.The medical profession in the Carolina Piedmont has changed a great deal since the eighteenth century. No longer do physicians trained by apprenticeship or two years of study visit their patients in their own homes, nor travel by horse through winter frosts and summer heat to do so. But the intention is the same - to cure the sick, heal the wounded, and comfort those in pain. This exhibit is an introduction to medical practice in this area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as an introduction to a series of prominent practitioners, including members of the Bratton family. Join us on this exploration of how environment, climate, disease and medical knowledge affected every life in the Carolina Piedmont. This exhibit is on display in the Homestead House wing at Historic Brattonsville (since April 2004). Click on the following links for more information. Special thanks to Blue Cross Blue Shield, the York County Medical Society and The Humanities Council SC for underwriting this exhibition as well as the CHM Leadership Circle: Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Williams & Fudge, Inc. |
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