Show WOMEN they rhey krat the as low as n 1010 0 o the e southern girl went around to bcd spend an the trained nurses at their home home in west ty first street there wa W aa a dozen doza or more moie of them at home that night and I 1 alie lie southern girl had not been there ve very y long before they were demanding to be lold told about those female doctors I 1 down south says fay the new ew york sun howman how man y of 5 ou arem Ds D s hold hands taid said the southern girl up your several hands went up were any of you ever in asheville Ath eville N C or tour four affirmative answers were given good goo then you know where the piedmont section of south carolina is about so mlle miles from rom asheville well these women doctors I 1 am going to tell you about floi risKed there long ago even before any woman in this th Is state ever studied medicine I 1 guess you was this thi way they had to take lake up the practice ol of medicine from 1 heer necessity in the early days of the century regular physicians were scarce in rural districts and this vt rs particularly particulars v true of upper carolina the only ph physicians in a county lived at a courthouse as the county seat was called consequently the people livi airing ng in remote parts of the county would have to ride 20 or 25 miles for the doe doctor when his office was reached he ml might then be on the opposite side of the co this scarcity ot of physicians and the long distance to be traveled caused the people to rely more on simple remedies the woman oman who was wisest in administering these soon became the neighborhood roctor tier her knowledge of hers herbs and roots root and their various uses added the practice of midwifery to the art of icing and blistering this too grew out ot of the necessities of f the people living miles away from the doctor 4 these granny women or as they were called were a sturdy self reliant set and most useful in their neighborhoods often they would mould ride jo 10 or or 20 20 wiles files to attend a patient some of them were kept so 0 o busy buoy that they found a good saddle horse a necessity and they were just as ready to attend the calls of ili hi sick day or night as a genuine ma doctor in cases of childbirth they I 1 often remain with the patients several days acting as nurse did they use any medicine a aked one of the nurses they used store medicine very very cautiously answered the southern girl and their collection of drugs did not go beyond calomy lau daroy 1 fire and tartar emetic you learned female doctors and trained nurses mav may recognize these drugs ot of these granny 1 women two were especially prominent down to fo the be civil war and they continued to practice afterward as long as they were able to 91 go |