Record #:

5708

Author(s):

Rogers, Susan Stone

Abstract:

The Country Doctor Museum in Bailey was created in 1967 by physicians Gloria F. Graham and Josephine P. Newell. Housed in doctors' offices dating back to 1887, the museum harkens back to a time when doctors made house calls and measured their own medicine. Among the exhibits are eleventh century apothecary jars, bleeding bowls, ear trumpets, gunshot forceps, and the surgical tools used to amputate the left arm of Stonewall Jackson.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 58 Issue 9, Feb 1991, p16-18

Subject(s):

Country Doctor Museum (Bailey); Museums--Bailey

Record #:

10664

Author(s):

Goerch, Carl

Abstract:

Located in the town of Bailey, in Nash County, The Country Doctor Museum was established in hopes of keeping alive the memory of the now nearly extinct old-time country doctor. The museum includes many exhibits, including apothecary jars, operating tables, old medical books, and the surgical implements used by Doctors Matthew Moore Butler and Hunter McGuire to amputate the arm of Stonewall Jackson.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 1, June 1969, p13-14, il

Subject(s):

Country Doctor Museum (Bailey); Museums--Bailey

Record #:

12334

Author(s):

Roberts, Bruce

Abstract:

The surgical set used to amputate General Stonewall Jackson's arm changed hands several times before being donated to The Country Doctor Museum in Bailey, North Carolina. One of Jackson's surgeons, Dr. Matthew Moore Butler, had the responsibility of preserving the instruments and bringing them home to Bristol, Tennessee. The instruments had been placed in a barrel filled with hot wax and were brought home at the end of the war. Roberts recounts how the instruments arrived at the Country Doctor Museum.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 4, Sept 1974, p18-19, il, por

Subject(s):

Country Doctor Museum (Bailey); Museums--Bailey; North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Surgical instruments; Butler, Matthew Moore, 1838-1913