Doctors - in the early days

In the early days, when the land was still covered with dense forests, when there were only trails through the forest, it does not seem possible for any or many doctors to have been located at Corinth. Usually every family had someone who had a knack for taking care of the sick and knew what should be done so that the rest of the family and neighbors depended on that person. But the day came when there were doctors arriving in the community.

Dr. W. H. Daugherty was one of them. He was a good doctor but he was also good for the town. He took part in every undertaking that would be of benefit to the community. Dr. W. B. Robinson was another, then Dr. George and later, Dr. Harry Simmons. Dr. Robinson, along with Dr. Daugherty, was a trustee for the Corinth Academy and trustee for the Christian Church. Dr. Harry Simmons was the main doctor in the 1918 influenza epidemic which swept the town and surrounding countryside. He was going night and day, getting a bit of sleep at his desk in snatches. Dr. W. P. Foreman served in the medical corps of the United States Army in World War I, who in a short while after his return, moved to Shelby County. There was a Dr. McGinnis in Corinth for a while he be was an older man. It is not known how long he was there. Corinth has never had a hospital, so new doctors just out of medical school did not stay very long but went to a town where there was a hospital.

Dr. Daugherty had a drug store in town. The building which he brought was a drug store building so there was one there before his. Dr. Simmons also ran a drug store which burned in the 1904 fire and was rebuilt and it burned in the 1914 fire.

Source: History of Grant County, Kentucky
John B. Conrad, Editor
Published by the Grant County Historical Society
Williamstown, Kentucky

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