Contents: The settling of the county; Lancaster medicine in colonial days; John Henry Neff's inventory; Henry Melchior Muhlenberg - man of letters, divinity, and healing; Leckey Murray's last will and testament; The Revolutionary and postwar period; The "state of the art" during the Revolution; Colonial military hospitals; Dr. Kuhn and the 'Flying Camps"; The first pharmacopeia; General Edward Hand; Dr. David Ramsay; Dr. John Houston; Dr. Thomas Whiteside; Christoper Marshall's diary;The vendetta: Rush and Morgan vs. Shippen; The famous duel: Riegar vs. Chambers; Testimonial by a grateful citizen; Healing by remote control; Doctor Perkins and the metallic tractors; Lancaster's first hospital; The fabulous Fahnestocks; Reuben Chambers and the "Bethania Palladium"; The 1832 cholera epidemic; The surgeon general's report anticipated; Health and safety tips from the "Palladium"; Preventive medicine - 1832 version; Nature's own son - Dr. Samuel Thompson; Resuscitation : who pays the bill?; The first bath tub in the nation; Meanwhile, Out in the country - a self-made man (Dr. Isaac Winters); The vaccine farm; Folk medicine; Native sons - Lancaster County has had its share; David Hayes Agnew, M.D. (1818-1892); A Lancaster County success story (Samuel Brubaker Harman, M.D.); A case of prolonged labor : the birth of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society; Formation of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society; The charter members of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society.