Baird, Nancy Disher. <br/><br/>
Luke Pryor Blackburn  Physician, Governor, Reformer. 

 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1979. 
 - 1 online resource (137 pages) 
 - Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf .
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Health Officer; 2 Confederate Agent; 3 Hero of Hickman; 4 Governor of Kentucky; 5 Prison Reformer; 6 Lenient Luke; Notes; A Note to Readers 
<br/><br/> Deadly epidemics of yellow fever and Asiatic cholera plagued the South throughout the nineteenth century, yet doctors had few effective weapons against the diseases. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Kentucky-born physician, worked with more success than most to save the lives of those who were stricken and to prevent the spread of infection. He aided towns throughout Kentucky and the Deep South where resident doctors had fled or had fallen ill themselves.Blackburn's reputation as a humanitarian soared following his aid to Western Kentucky during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. A year later he was ea. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813150369 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prisons--History.--Kentucky<br/>Public health--History.--Kentucky<br/>Physicians--Kentucky--Biography.<br/>Governors--Kentucky--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F456  / .L854 1979