Word: greentown
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Late in 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 38, of Danville, best surgeon west of Philadelphia, received a call to Greentown, 60 miles across country, to deliver a Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford. Dr. McDowell, a big, vigorous man, rode over to Greentown. Two attending physicians assured him that Mrs. Crawford carried twins. He made an examination per vaginam, soon ascertained that she was not pregnant but had a large tumor in the abdomen which moved easily from side to side...
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