Keywords: Bangor Physicians
Item 31827
Body of Brady Gang leader, Bangor, 1937
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1937-10-12 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 16207
Surgical unit, Bangor General Hospital, 1899
Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: 1899 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2
"When news reached Bangor, physicians were dispatched to the scene. The next day, spectators and photographers flocked to the site of the wreck…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2
"… the modernization project, and recruiting 21 new physicians to expand the amount of care they can supply."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
