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Thomas Proctor Hughes
b. 1905
Best known for a detailed study of colonial medicine, this historian explored how European medical ideas and local conditions shaped health care in early Virginia. His work offers a vivid look at the hardships, beliefs, and improvisations of life in the seventeenth-century colony.
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Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
by Thomas Proctor Hughes
About the author
Thomas Proctor Hughes was an American historian born in 1905. He is known for Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699, a mid-20th-century study of medical practice in colonial Virginia.
The book was published in 1957 by the Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, and contemporary editions identify him as an assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University. In it, he traced the roots of Virginia medicine from European traditions to the realities of disease, injury, and treatment in the early colony.
Beyond that, readily confirmed biographical details are limited in the sources I found. What does come through clearly is his interest in careful historical research and in making the early history of Virginia's medical world accessible to general readers.