Former Kosciusko nonmigratory Dr. Stanley Hartness was the impermanent talker astatine the Attala Historical Society’s “Get to Know Attala County and Attala Countians Better” meeting.
He delivered a presumption titled “Tie a Bag of Asafoetida Around Your Neck and Call maine successful the Morning: A Lookback astatine Medicine successful Attala County” astatine the caller meeting. He besides brought his postulation of antique aesculapian instrumentality for display, immoderate of which has been framed successful an artwork plan compiled by a Mississippi artist.
The rubric of the presumption was inspired by the operation doctors person been accused of telling their patients: Take 2 aspirin and telephone maine successful the morning. Because helium was speaking connected aboriginal medicine, helium chose to usage asafoetida successful the title, a works erstwhile utilized to forestall and dainty pharynx and thorax infections. The presumption covered who the archetypal physicians were successful the aboriginal communities of Attala County, wherever those communities were, and however and wherever physicians of the clip received aesculapian training.
Hartness told that Kosciusko was settled by John Adam successful 1834, who built a tavern by Red Bird Spring. He explained that an nonfiction successful The Sun paper said that Kosciusko’s sanction was primitively Greenville, which aboriginal changed to Paris, earlier yet being changed to Kosciusko by William Dodd. The aforesaid nonfiction said that Dr. Munson was the town’s archetypal physician. Hartness said that determination were nary physicians accounted for successful Attala County successful the 2nd Mississippi census of 1841, “however, by 1870, respective doctors had hung retired their shingles.”
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