Doctor Woman of the Cumberlands Author:May Cravath Wharton, M.D. Dr. May Cravath Wharton was born in Minnesota, spent three years at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and was graduated from the University of North dakota and the Medical School of the University of Michigan. When the medical mission post on which she had set her heart failed to materialize, she turned to private practice in Atlanta wher... more »e she married Edwin Wharton, then to work with him in a settlement house in Cleveland, Ohio, and next to private practice in rural New Hampshire. She came to Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, in 1971 when her husband became principal of Pleasant Hill Academy, a school for mountain youth which the American Missionary Association maintained in Pleasant Hill. Her work with the mountain people of the surrounding are abegan during the flu epidemic of 1918 when she was 45 years old. At that time doctors' visits in the homes of highlanders were practically unknown and the nearest hospital was 85 miles from Pleasant Hill. After her husband's death in 1920, the mountain people pesuaded "DR,. May," as she is best known on the Cumberland Plateau, to stay and be their "Docotr Woman." "We feel we cannot do without you," they said. Doctor Woman of the Cumberlands is Dr. May's story of her health ministry among the mountain people.« less
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