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1837–1880 · CHAPMAN FIRST-HAND
By 1880 the town had two settled physicians, and Chapman sketches both.Joseph county." Thomas T. McDonald, born in Clark County, Ohio, 5 November 1832, studied medicine first under a preceptor and then at Bush Medical College in Chicago in the winters of 1863–64 and 1864–65, began practice in 1864 in what is now Lincoln Township, and "in 1866 he came to New Carlisle, where he has been located ever since, and where he has steadily followed his profession" — holding, as he practiced, the offices of School Trustee and Township Trustee, the latter "at present" in 1880. The pairing is the pre-hospital system's whole shape: the doctor was a town officer class of one or two men, and the township's sick were carried on a practice, not an institution. No earlier resident physician stands in the record reached; the practice line before Harris's arrival in the county is a named gap (GAP-NC3-HEALTH-1), settler the county medical society's early rolls as printed in the county histories' later editions.
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- 777–778) and Dr. Thomas T. McDonald (pp. 779–780). Read first-hand.