MEDICAL Guide

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 14: MEDICAL
Series 18: PUBLICATIONS RELATED
Medical Guide

MEDICAL Health and Hygiene Guide

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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 albumDr. 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

MEDICAL SETTLEMENT Big Laurel

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.