Stories of a Country Doctor 1890 by Willis P. King - Missouri - Pioneer - Medical Practice - 19th Century

Title: Stories of a Country Doctor

Author: Willis P. King, M. D.
Illustrator: T. A. Fitzgerald

Description: Army drab-green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Heavily rubbed at head and foot of spine; area of soiling on front board. Lettering on spine mostly faded. Gift inscription by the author's wife on flyleaf (Christmas 1890). Pages clean. Many illustrations. 397 pp. 8.5 x 6 inches.

Dr. Willis King narrates a series of anecdotes and reflections around both his life experience and work as a doctor in Missouri. These are entertaining, often humorous, and occasionally disturbing. Herein, with sly wit, is presented a lively, if quirky, picture of country ways and society and medical practice (with some attention to superstition and quackery) in the later nineteenth century.

Willis Percival King (1839-1909) was a Missouri country doctor who took up his practice after graduating from St. Louis Medical College in the 1860's. He had circuit riding medical practice, including a stint in Nevada, and later, in the 1880s, settled in Sedalia and then finally Kansas City. In 1861 he married Albina H. Hoss (who inscribed this book). As a leading physician in the region he held many offices, including that of President of the Missouri State Medical Association, Assistant Chief Surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Lecturer on Diseases of Women at Missouri State University, Professor of Diseases of Women at the University of Kansas City, and President of the Pettis County (Missouri) Medial Society.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company
Place: Kansas City, Mo.
Year: 1890

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: medicine, medical practice, United States, 19th century, Missouri, pioneer, rural,