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Article
Abstract
The drive home from the Cashtown area home of the Kuhn family was cold and dark, but the twenty-one-year-old medical student was exhilarated. It was after four o'clock on a Monday morning, December 16, 1867. He had just assisted Mrs. Abner (Rebecca) Kuhn deliver her third child, a 14-pound son, the first of over one thousand such deliveries during his medical career. Arriving back at his lodging in the McKnightstown area, he would make the first entry in his obstetrical journal. This neat, detailed journal would eventually hold the record of 1026 cases, most involving families in the Franklin township area of Adams county, Pennsylvania. [excerpt]
Recommended Citation
Greenholt, Kevin L.
(2004)
"A "Typical Country Doctor": Robert B. Elderdice, McKnightstown,"
Adams County History: Vol. 10, Article 3.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ach/vol10/iss1/3
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