"A Saddlebag Doctor of the Mahantongo Valley of Pennsylvania" with Lawrence Knorr
12 November 2025

"A Saddlebag Doctor of the Mahantongo Valley of Pennsylvania" with Lawrence Knorr

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The life and medical practice of Reuben Harris Muth, M.D., a rural saddlebag doctor, is reconstructed from an extant set of physician's daybooks, chronicling his professional activity from 1858 until 1898. Experience a rare glimpse of early medical history from an economic and cultural perspective.


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