Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 14: MEDICAL
Series 18: PUBLICATIONS RELATED
Medical Guide
“En-route with Dr. Withington and neighbors to visit a sick man.” [kingman_020b.jpg]
TAGS: Medical guide, nurses, doctors, clinics, medical settlements, Infirmary, Red Cross, surveys, reports
MEDICAL Guide to Staff and Resources
The MEDICAL Guide lists links to the pages concerning medical-related subjects that are available on the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections website. Included are sub-categories such as HEALTH CLINICS, DENTAL CLINICS, MEDICAL SETTLEMENT AT BIG LAUREL, LINE FORK SETTLEMENT, INFIRMARY, individual nurses and doctors, etc.
MEDICAL PAGES
MEDICAL 1942 Sore Throat Epidemic at PMSS
MEDICAL Dental Health and Dental Clinics at PMSS
MEDICAL 1921 Nurse Recruitment Correspondence
WELLS RECORD 11 PMSS Health 1913-1928 – Evelyn Wells
DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Dis-ease
PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL Medical Staff and Resource Guide
INFIRMARY [Hill House]
WEST WIND
WEST WIND as Hospital (1950 – 1955?)
**Many NURSES, DOCTORS and other workers wrote engaging narratives or produced photograph albums of their time at the Line Fork and Big Laurel extensions: Martha Van Meter‘s recollections; Ann Ruth Medcalf‘s reports and article; Anne Pavey‘s recollections; Isabel McLannen McMeekin‘s recollections; Emily C. Harpham‘s recollections; Annie R. Lewis’s accounts of her mother Aileene Lewis [Nesbitt] found in Aileene’s photograph album; Dr. Ida Stapleton‘s reports; and the Lutrella Baker Photograph Album (Rev. Richard E. and Lutrella Baker). All are well worth the read and the look!
Dr. CLARK BAILEY Biography [Trustee]
HARRIET BUTLER Biography
MARGUERITE BUTLER Biography
OLIVE COOLIDGE BUTMAN Biography
Dr. ELIZABETH HENDERSON Biography
Dr. EVELYN HOLT Biography
Dr. HOWARD H. INGLING Biography
Dr. TRACY JONES Biography
DOROTHY LaRUE Biography
ABBY NOYES LITTLE Biography
GRACE FENG LIU Biography
ISABEL McLANNEN (MCMEEKIN) Biography
HELEN LOUISE MADON (HEATH) Biography
ANNE PAVEY Biography
ANNA WULF PISHZACK Biography
MILDRED ROBERTSON Biography
GRACE M. ROOD Biography
ESTER SANDSTROM [NO BIOGRAPHY]
MARY SKIDMORE Biography
Drs. EMMA and FRANCIS TUCKER Biography
MARGARET FROST TWICHELL Biography
LINE FORK SETTLEMENT Medical Staff
LINE FORK Settlement
LINE FORK SETTLEMENT Guide to Workers Reports 1920-1941
EMILY C. HARPHAM Biography
ANNE RUTH MEDCALF Biography
ANNE RUTH MEDCALF 1924 In the Line Fork Country
AILEENE LEWIS NESBITT Biography
FRANCES PALMER (CONQUIST) Biography
DR. IDA STAPLETON AND REV. ROBERT STAPLETON Biography
MEDICAL SETTLEMENT at Big Laurel Medical Staff
ANNA HENNEBERGER Biography
Dr. GRACE HUSE Biography
RITA REBECCA ROEDER Biography
Dr. ALFREDA WITHINGTON Biography
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Medicinal Resources
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Traditional Plant Medicines
ASSOCIATED LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND NATIONAL HEALTH Resources
MEDICAL 1917 AMERICAN RED CROSS Dept of Civilian Relief.“Town and Country Nursing Service, Its Purpose and Scope.” An early WWI brochure outlining the role of nurses in a rural environment and instrumental in shaping early rural health programs at PMSS. August 24, 1917.
MEDICAL Frontier Nursing and PMSS Correspondence 1924-1938. Biography of Mary Breckinridge, founder and director of Frontier Nursing Service, and her correspondence with PMSS directors (1925-1938).
MEDICAL 1955 Health Care Services and Facilities in the Southern Appalachian Region – Report to Council of the Southern Mountains by Rural Life Council, Tuskegee Institute, Lewis W. Jones, Director of Research and Adella R. Shields, Research Assistant, 1955.
PUBLICATIONS RELATED 1922 “Mountain Children in Kentucky” By Lucy E. Halbert. [American Journal of Nursing, Dec. 1922, pp. 212-214.] A Hindman Settlement School nurse describes in her article the conditions in and around Hindman. She also elaborates extensively on the companion settlement school at Pine Mountain and its medical outreach and culture.
PUBLICATIONS RELATED 1932 Dr. Iva Miller “Health Survey of Harlan County.” Images and transcription of survey by the representative of the Save the Children Fund. Forward by Dr. Clark Bailey, PMSS trustee.
BRECKINRIDGE, MARY, Ed. “Yarb Lore in the Kentucky Mountains.” (Herb Lore). Frontier Nursing Service Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. XXXIX, Winter 1964, pp. 2-17. [copyrighted information FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 198 FNS Quarterly Bulletin (1959): 3–17. No full text]
See Also:
MEDICAL Staff Lists
Lists of medical staff at PMSS and the School’s medical
settlements throughout its history.
