A Country Doctor and the Epidemics
A COUNTRY DOCTOR AND THE EPIDEMICS
Montana 1917-1918
by Steven D. Helgerson
softcover, 152 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59152-191-4
$16.95
Can a country doctor alter the fate of his patients? Or his own fate?
In mid October 1918 the largest epidemic of the 20th Century struck in a small eastern Montana town. Within a few weeks influenza had killed dozens of people in the rural county. But this was just one of a series of extraordinary events attacking the social fabric of the community in 1917 and 1918.
Rich in detail, broad in scope, this story places a fictional physician in the midst of the riveting events of those years. The physician grieves the death of his wife and unborn child. He is deeply troubled by the limitations of medical science. Then he is tragically enveloped by yet another epidemic.
What fate will the country doctor meet?