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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