Record #:

23471

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Retiring in 1937, Dr. Jenness Morrill of Falkland had served as a Pitt County physician for nearly 50 years. Throughout most of his long years of service, Dr. Morrill was the only physician in Pitt County and as such was visited frequently by patients and made numerous house calls all across the county. Several interesting events occurred during his travels, such as his saving a young girl from an unceasing nosebleed through the use of adrenaline. One of his patients accidentally drank from a bottle of tincture of cayenne pepper. During his 50 years in practice in Falkland, Dr. Morrill prescribed over a quarter - million remedies, traveled nearly half a million miles to visit patients, and delivered 1,400 babies.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jul 9-22 2003, p6-7

Subject(s):

Physicians--Pitt County