The frontier was a great place for a doctor to practice....and that’s what many of them did…..practice. In 1880 Tombstone, a town of 2,000 had a dozen doctors but eight of them didn’t have a license. It was a place where they could improvise at will working without the same restrictions and restraints as their eastern colleagues.
They treated all kinds of ailments from broken limbs, gun
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