From the Author's Note:"Medicine in the early days ofAsheville is of interest primarilybecause of the absorbing life storiesof the physicians who practicedduring that period. In addition,the physicians and their practiceof medicine in Asheville-in theantebellum days and during thedifficult years of the Civil Warand Reconstruction and for manyyears thereafter-present a strikingcontrast with the present day.""Perhaps most interesting are thefifty-odd years beginning in the1880s when Asheville became thenation's best-known center for thetreatment of tuberculosis, and itstuberculosis specialists were widelyrecognized as authorities in theirfield.""Asheville's medical history isreplete with unusual and captivatingcharacters from the earliest days tothe most recent times. The littlepublicizedaccomplishments of theseindividuals need to be recordedlest they be lost. Consequently,biographical sketches of manyAsheville physicians are scatteredthroughout this history to acquaintthe reader with these unusualmen and women and their careers.Because they represent such anexceptional group, Asheville'swomen physicians receive specialattention. Similarly, because it islittle known, the interesting story ofAsheville's black physicians also hasa special section."

The History of Medicine in Asheville

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