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020 _a9780813150369
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050 0 4 _aF456
_b.L854 1979
049 _aNTA
100 1 _aBaird, Nancy Disher.
_e1
245 1 0 _aLuke Pryor Blackburn
_bPhysician, Governor, Reformer.
_c
260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)1979.
300 _a1 online resource (137 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
347 _adata file
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490 1 _aKentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
504 _a2
505 0 0 _aCover; 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
520 0 _aDeadly 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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650 0 _aPrisons
_zKentucky
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPublic health
_zKentucky
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPhysicians
_zKentucky
_vBiography.
650 0 _aGovernors
_zKentucky
_vBiography.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938076&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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902 _a1
_bCynthia Snell
_c1
_dCynthia Snell