Bay County past and present . ake the situation still more trying and dangerous, there wasno doctor for nearly 20 years after the first settler erected his log cabinwithin the limits of Bay County. From 1837 until about 1850, Mrs. Thomas Rogers, though not a prac-ticing physician, had to act as doctorand nurse for all the families in thisvicinity. She was the daughter of aneminent physician, and before comingwest had studied medicine under herfather and had assisted him in hiswork. At all hours of the day ornight, when called upon, you wouldfind her at the bedside of the sick anddying. Through
Bay County past and present . ake the situation still more trying and dangerous, there wasno doctor for nearly 20 years after the first settler erected his log cabinwithin the limits of Bay County. From 1837 until about 1850, Mrs. Thomas Rogers, though not a prac-ticing physician, had to act as doctorand nurse for all the families in thisvicinity. She was the daughter of aneminent physician, and before comingwest had studied medicine under herfather and had assisted him in hiswork. At all hours of the day ornight, when called upon, you wouldfind her at the bedside of the sick anddying. Through storm or snow, rainor shine, it made no difference to on horseback, sometimeson foot through the woods, she feltit to be her duty, and like an angel ofMRS. THOMAS ROGERS. mercy, she did it, and would have con-tinued to do so, but as settlers began to come in, doctors came. Shestill visited the sick of a few old settlers, for they would have noneother but her. There was scarcely a birth for twenty years but what. (G) VII. 245. 88 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT. she was present. In that dreadful year of the cholera (1852), whichswept off so many of the inhabitants, including her husband, she wasat the bedside of the sick and dying, administering assistance and com-fort without money and without price. (7^ The Indians, too, made use of her skill and ability as a would come to her for relief from an aching tooth, and after thetooth had been pulled, the Indian who had received the benefit, as athank you would be outside and jump high into the air, at the sametime uttering a regular war whoop. The pioneers also had to face danger from the Indians, for whilethey were usually very friendly and harmless, yet they were, as wehave learned, dangerous when under the influence of strong drink. Anincident in the life of Mrs. Rogers shows this fact clearly: One dayan Indian who had been drinking came to her house while her husbandwas away to work, some miles from home.
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