TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baird,Nancy Disher
TI  - Luke Pryor Blackburn: Physician, Governor, Reformer
T2  - Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
SN  - 9780813150369
AV  - F456 .L854 1979
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - History
KW  - Public health
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Governors
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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