Pioneer Physicians of Wyoming Valley, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from Pioneer Physicians of Wyoming Valley, Vol. 9: An Address Before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society [In this paper no attempt has been made to distinguish between men who were educated physicians and those picturesque characters who, in one crude form or another, ministered to the ills of suffering humanity. To have passed as doctors is sufficient warrant for including them in the present narrative.] To-day there is a practicing physician for every 700 inhabitants of Luzerne County and perhaps every square mile will average a disciple of the healing art. To-day, with a busy population of a quarter of a million souls, it is with difficulty that we can picture this same portion of Pennsylvania as it was in the half century up to 1825, the period with which this paper has particularly to deal. As originally erected in 1786, Luzerne County stretched along the Susquehanna River from the mouth of the Nescopeck Creek, opposite Berwick, northward to the New York State line, a distance of 150 miles by the rough bridle paths of that day, whose trails are now occupied by our modern iron highways, or 120 miles as the bird flies. Of this vast wilderness, covering the northeastern quarter of Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre (or Wyoming, as it was called), was the centre, and here lived the doctors, here were the courts, here was the capital of old Westmoreland (belonging to Connecticut, though geographically separated from it), and here were contested the rival claims of Pennsylvania and Connecticut for a fair valley whose tragic history is known wherever the English language is spoken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.