Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"A teenage Navajo mother in blue jeans would come in with a baby who was suffering from a cold and ask for some medication," recalls Dr. Joe Jacobs, summoning up a scene from his days at the Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. "She'd be accompanied by the...
Jacobs has a healthy respect for grandmothers' folk remedies and for unconventional therapies in general. He comes by it naturally. For though he is a conventionally trained pediatrician, he is also the son of a part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs...
That unusually broad experience led officials at the National Institutes of Health to pick Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many...
Other points include the residences of Lewis and Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, John J. Fatal, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Patrick H. Raymond and Joshua Bowen Smith, all associated with the abolition, emancipation, and reconstruction movements.
"I didn't even know what it was," said Jacobs. "Visually, I don't understand it. Conceptually, I don't understand it."