When Joseph I. Greenwell began practice in his home county, he had to be a horse & buggy doctor. It was 1900; no horseless carriage had yet been seen around New Haven, Ky., nestled in the valley of a river picturesquely named Salt Rolling Fork, and if it had, it could not have penetrated the surrounding hills.
Many of Dr. Greenwell's first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy...
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