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1CSTAHMSHHD IN 1873LONDON, KENTUCKYKKJUTY-SECONI) YEARLondon Is An important Medical Center100-Bed State Tuberculosis Hospital Restores Many Persons To Normal HealthThe London Sin to Tuberculosis Hospital, serving the Fifth District comprising most of Southeastern Kentucky, received its first patient on Wednesday, .Tun. 31,1951. Realty there were two patients that clay, the first from Leslie county with a pntient from Pulaski county a closesecond, Most severe weather detcr-oct several others who nrevinnslLaurel County Health Department Established Here July 1,1931Pennington Ranks High As SurgeonDr. Robert E. Pennington, whois carried on the rolls of I lie IT. S. \rmy Reserves as a Lieu leu an I Colonel, can easily be ranked withHOSPITAL'S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY“Infirmary” Opened Where Judgeits Doors In 1964 Lewis Now LivesThe announcement in The Mountain Echo of May J5, 1891, that aLlie foremost surgeons in Kentucky, doctor ’ll0 been piuc-if n o t in the United Slates. Although only 43 years of age, Dr. Pennington has distinguished himself among the members of his profession for proficiency in his field and secured the abiding affection of the people in the area he serves.Dr. Pennington was born in London on September 21, J910. the son of the late Dr. H. V. and Bailie Baugh Pennington, and after attending Sue Bennett Memorial School from tiie grades through the rirst year of college, enrolled in the University of Kentucky, graduatingticing medicine nt the Camp Ground, had opened an office in the Jackson building, had more meaning for London than the people had any way to know or suspect at the time. I-Ie was Dr. H. V. Pennington, recently from Virginia, an M. D., a physician and surgeon, and 'a dentist.It was some ten years later that Dr. Pennington realized :i dream and opened the Pennington Infirmary where Judge and Mrs. Wm. Lewi5 now live. On Feb. 1G. 1901, Tiie Echo reported the fourth .successful operation at the Infirmary,But before building the Infirmary, Dr. Pennington had a-chicved a wide icpfilatlon as a surgeon, without benefit of adequate facilities or assistance. With an operation under adverse circumstances he had saved the life of Win. N. Edwards, brother of' P. P. Edwards, who had been shot through the liver in front of the Catching building by Dan S. TipLon. In this ope ration, in which he was assisted by Dis. J. B. Mason, P. E. Bryant and Alex Foster, and the operating room was a guest room in the aid .Tankson Hotel, where the Baptist church and George Hamm's store are now, a part of the liver jhnd to be removed. Instruments used in the operation were sterilized bv boilinc in a wash kettle barlt ofMAUYHOINT HOSPITALhad the assistance of Drs. G. S. Biock and J. W. Crook, and of many other well-wishers in London and Laurel county who purchased bonds. But the hospital was Dr. II, V. Pennington, and Dr. Pennington was the hospital. He lived to pay ofr all tiie bonds in full and to make improvements that were planned in the beginning hut delayed, includ-Bioodstorte And Madstone In Laurel Medical HistoryA bloodstone, long in the Baugh family, was used by Chas. A. Baugh in London early in this eentury for the prevention of rabies. People came to Mr Rniioh fi-mvi naahhu
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
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