While World War I was taking place in 1918, a new influenza virus emerged throughout the world. The conditions of World War I helped…
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OLD PRACTICE IN MEDICINE1 In the private memoranda left by Judge A. A. Coleman, a distinguished citizen of Alabama from the founding of the…
Recently, there has been talk of restoring and reopening Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama as a mental health facility in Mobile County. Searcy…
{I've often wondered why people seemed to be so serious and not smiling in old photographs, then one day I realized that it may…
MARINE HOSPITAL (U. S.) AT MOBILE The Marine Hospital at Mobile, Alabama was the oldest building used as a Marine Hospital in 1914. It…
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