GLMS
ALLIANCE News
Millicent Evans
Our opening GLMS Alliance meeting was with the Kentucky Medical Society Alliance on August 26, 2017. We had lunch and a fashion show at the University Club on the UofL campus. It was presented by Delanor Manson, with clothes and jewelry from Koi Gallery and Rodes For Her and For Him( see them modeled above). We auctioned a basket, and the excellent earnings of $ 5,500 went to the Dr. Ephraim McDowell House in Danville, Kentucky.
In 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed a surgical experiment on a woman named Jane Todd Crawford. After four children, at the age of 46, she thought she was pregnant. When she was long overdue, she discovered that she had a 22-pound cystic tumor. The prognosis was death. She contacted Dr. McDowell, and he agreed to do the abdominal surgery that might save her life. On that Christmas morning, in an upstairs bedroom, Dr. McDowell removed the tumor. It took him 25 minutes, and Jane was given only an oral dose of opium before being cut open, since anesthesia had not yet been invented. Without medical intervention, she was doomed to die. Such surgery had never been done before and antibiotics and modern sterilization techniques were unknown. Yet Jane Todd Crawford lived to be 79 years old.
At the end of last year, GLMS Alliance gave $ 1,350 to paint and repair the children’ s room at the McDowell House, in addition to $ 300 donated earlier. The GLMSA is always continuing the tradition of making the best we have into something better.
Millicent Evans is the GLMS Alliance President.
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