Hospitals (23)

by . Amputated legs and feet in a pile at a Civil War army hospital. About 60,000 surgeries were conducted during the American Civil War and about a quarter of them were amputations. The large number was [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Hill, Michael. Babies Hospital by Michael Hill, 2006 The Babies Hospital was a seaside pediatric institution that operated in New Hanover County from [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Civil War Field Hospital A field hospital in Savage Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign of May–August [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Coonin, Bryna R. The Crossnore School, a nondenominational Christian home for children located in the town of Crossnore in the Linville Valley of Avery County, was founded by two doctors, Mary Martin Sloop, of [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wood, Steve. James Wagner Davis, physician, was born in Statesville, the son of Lawson Davis of Wilkes County and Delia Josephine Wagner Davis of Statesville. He studied in the public schools of Statesville until [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Smiley, David L. Dorothea Dix by David L. Smiley Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 1996; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, June 2023 Tar Heel Junior [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by McKown, Harry W., Jr. Dorothea Dix Hospital by Harry McKown UNC - North Carolina Collection, 2006; Revised by NC Government & Heritage Library, June 2022; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, June [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Mitchell, Memory F., Anthony, Robert G., Jr., Causey, Ellen Fitzgibbons, Lillard, Stewart, Bumgarner, Sheila, Taylor, Margaret, Goloboy, Maggie. Well into the twentieth century, sick or injured North Carolinians were cared for primarily at home. In colonial times ill persons without families were looked after in almshouses. As contagious [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Parramore, Thomas C., Norris, David A., Cockrell, David L., Joyner, William S., Hosfeld, Andrew. Infectious Diseases by William S. Joyner, 2006 Additional research provided by David L. Cockrell, Andrew Hosfeld, David A. Norris, and Thomas C. Parramore. See also: Public Health; [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Parramore, Thomas C., Norris, David A., Cockrell, David L., Hosfeld, Andrew. Infectious Diseases by William S. Joyner, 2006; Revised November 2022. Additional research provided by David L. Cockrell, Andrew Hosfeld, David A. Norris, and Thomas C. Parramore. See [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Murray, Elizabeth D. R. The Leonard Medical School, established in Raleigh by Shaw University in 1880, was the first four-year medical school in the United States and trained more than 400 Black and African American [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S., Johnson, K. Todd, Wright, Marilyn. Medical education for North Carolinians who desired to become physicians in the eighteenth or nineteenth century was generally obtained through a program of apprenticeship. In the absence of formal [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Hatcher, Susan Tucker. The North Carolina Medical Society was founded in 1849 "to unite, serve, and represent physicians, in order to enhance physician advocacy for their patients, and improve the health of the people of [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Zuber, Richard L. The "Miracle of Hickory" refers to the hospital more formally known as the Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital or the Hickory Emergency Infantile Paralysis Hospital. It was established [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wright, Ann S. Moore General Hospital, located between Swannanoa and Black Mountain on U.S. 70, was built as a general army hospital for the treatment of sick and wounded soldiers during World War II. Named for [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)