In the 1920s the granddaughter of a U.S. Vice-President established a unique nurse/midwife service in rural eastern Kentucky. Mary Carson Breckinridge led this program until she died in 1965, providing health care and midwife services to the folks living in this part of Appalachia.
Today we tell you about Mary Carson Breckinridge and present a silent film about the Frontier Nursing Service from the 1930s.
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(Film from the National Library of Medicine, digital collection. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8600028A)