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What’s in the Bag?

by | Sep 5, 2008 | Inside History

Digging into the frontier doc's black bag.
Colorado Territory, February 1874. Fictional frontier doctor Elijah Baines sat quietly at the bedside of his 64-year-old female patient Sarah, who had just fallen on ice the day before and hit her head. He had already cared for the small laceration on the side of her scalp with four catgut sutures. He was now worried that her unrelenting headaches and sleepiness were signs of a con


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