Administered to the dying president and describes the effort of the doctors. Our speaker tonight is very experienced. Rather new on the lecture circuit. But he has experience to speak from. He has been a practicing physician on Infectious Diseases for 37 years. He practiced in california before coming to d. C. Where he has been active speaking for the National Museum of civil war medicine. He frequently lectures civil war groups. We are thankful to have him speak to us tonight. Hes a member of the board of directors of the society of civil war surgeons and public concerning, he is what we call a switch hitter he does reenacting as a physician in the civil war for confederate and union soldiers. We are happy to have you anyway, jon. Please welcome to the podium, dr. Jon willen. [applause] dr. Willen ok. Thats better. Normally, when i give talks, i think the organizers for inviting me. In this case, being the chairman of this group, i have to thank myself. We will dispense with that. As
And Clappville.
Industrialist Joshua Clapp, his influence so grand, was recognized in the 1800s with his own section of town, to the south, at the Oxford border. The area is now part of the Rochdale village.
Clapp s mansion is pictured in our Then photo. The home, was located on the eastern end of the Common. It s gone now.
The mansion was built in 1833, amid Leicester s emergence as an industrial powerhouse, dotted with textile and carding mills.
The Western Railroad line and the landscape s many brooks lured mill owners, some from next-door Worcester, the county seat.
Clapp was educated at Leicester Academy and worked for years as a commission merchant in Boston.
Thomas C. Rosenthal, MD
In his history-based novel, “Bloodletting & Germs: A Doctor in Nineteenth Century Rural New York,” the professor emeritus of family medicine tells the story of Jabez Allen, a doctor who worked in the Western New York village of East Aurora during the 1800s.
The book describes the evolution of medical practices in the 19th century through the eyes of Allen, whose life and experiences Rosenthal painstakingly researched and recreated. It explains how Allen’s medical practice developed during a period of enormous social and scientific change that included the Civil War and the cholera epidemic of the mid-1800s.