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Dr. Benton Among First to *2 Practice in County with - the Indian Medicine Men ; The first doctors in the region now, known as New York state were the Indian medicine men. who interpreted the witchery of the moon and had -men jump violently up and, : Then came the lay down to cure the stomach ache... accompanied the Jesubrothestonne, les from Iroquois village to village seeking to cure the Red Men's bod- i ies and to save their, souls, say's Dr. Erl Bates. of New York state college agriculture, in introducing a new series of radio broadcasts from Cornell University station WESG called "the saddlebag doctors." Dr., Bates speaks each Friday at o'clock as a part of the week-day farm program. Offer Doctors Extra Land Hundreds of settlers came into • the valley lands of old New York af-: ter the Revolutionary War. While men who served in the medical branch of the army were offered. 1,500 acres of land in addition to regular private's bonus of 600 CAUSES acres, few medical men sought a living in upper New York. General William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence, the pioneer land owner north of Utica, advertised to pay the bill of any visiting physician at the tavern of Benjamin Pike at Floyd Corners. Jedediah Sanger, founder of New Hartford and owner of mills from there 'o Skaneateles in Onondaga county, introduced during eleven terms in the State Legislature all of bills proposing state aid to physicians who might establish themselves in the "West." To induce settlements in the Southern Tier, James McMaster and John McQuigg of Owego advertised that four physicians were located in distance of their holdings. Since the nearest physician was Dr. Lewis Beers of Beers Settlement, now Danby, which was more than 40 from their land, it shows. Dr. Bates, something miles, of th? regard for medical men in those days.
Article from 07 Nov 1932The Daily Messenger(Canandaigua, NY)
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