This article from a 1920 publication about public health describes how early nurses ministered during a flu outbreak that year. She describes a nurse traveling on a horse named Ginger who used ice, mustart footbaths, castor oil, epsom salts, gruels, chicken broth and vebison broth and potato soup to heal her patients in rural areas.
City
Medford
Location
Vertical Files, Subject, nurses and nursing, and in Medical Care, Public Health
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