A quick link

Today's luncheon speaker was David Dary, author of the book Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941. In introducing him, 2009 Annual Conference Administrator Douglas Haneline mentioned that he had fortuitously happened upon Dary's book by reading a review in the New York Times. Here's the link.

If you're not inspired to click yet, maybe a little snippet from the review's lede will do the trick:

Bear attacks. Syphilis. Bullet wounds. Malaria. Scalpings. Cholera. Arrows shot into the skull. Scurvy. Rabies. Ax mishaps. Crushings by moving wagon wheels. Outsize tumors. Snake bites. There were many ways to die in frontier America, plenty of them gruesome.

Are you clicking yet?

--Victoria White