Doctors, Disease & Dying in the Pikes Peak Region [first edition]

New, in publisher's shrink wrap; Includes material presented at the 2008 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium; black and white illustrations (chiefly photographs), black and white map ; 22 cm. 393p. Articles include: From Pike to Fitzsimons : U.S. Army doctors in Colorado, 1806-1921 / John M. Hutchins; " . [And] the patient recovered" : medical practice on the Santa Fe Trail & Bent's Fort / Don Headlee; Francis Schlatter : Denver healer of the 1890s / Thomas F. Dawson; Back stage with a medicine show fifty years ago / William P. Burt; Women of health & caring in the southern Rockies / Lynn A. Gilfillan-Morton; Trooper! Boswell Preston Anderson, MD / Bob Hoff; Matters of life & death : Dr. Charles Fox Gardiner & Colorado's early tuberculosis physicians / Chris Nicholl; The sanatory tent & its use in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis / Charles Fox Gardiner, MD; Healers in Pikes Peak history / Marshall Sprague; Justina Ford : Colorado's lady doctor / Joyce B. Lohse; Healer, humanitarian, historian : a remembrance of Dr. Lester L. Williams / Edwin A. & Nancy E. Bathke; "He may have saved someone you loved" : Dr. Juan del Regato & cancer treatment in the Pikes Peak Region / Juanita (Nita) Peters; On a cough & a prayer : the Modern Woodmen Sanatorium & the tuberculosis industry in the Pikes Peak Region / Matt Mayberry; Mental health issues : examples from a pioneer family / Nancy K. Prince; Helping the destitute & dying : the Colorado Springs Aid Society; The influenza pandemic of 1918 : a Colorado Springs timeline / Katie Rudolph; Morbidity & mortality in the media; The widow's herd : a one-act play / John Stansfield. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall