The following books provided background for “The Doctors Apprentice”
1. Black Reconstruction in America; W.E.B. DuBois. Studies in American Negro life, Atheneum, 1972, New York
2. Reconstruction [1865-1877] Edited by Richard N. Current. Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood N.J. 1965
3. The Story of Illinois; Theodore Calvin Pease Third edition, revised and enlarged Marguerite Jenison Pease, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1965
4. Good Medicine The first 150 Years of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Hospital Jim Bowman, Chicago Review Press, 1987
5. Henry, Best Town in Illinois by a Dam Site. Helen G. Raffensperger M and D Printing Company, Inc. Henry, Illinois
6. Natural Medicine, Plants That Heal, Joel Swerdlow, National Geographic
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