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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