The Doctor of Dunstable Plains

The practice of medicine seems so arbitrary. Some live, some die. Even when you do your best. In a moment of despair and grief, Dr. Increase Graves moved his small family to rural New Hampshire to doctor the mill workers of the Industrial Revolution. He finds himself healing more than bodies, though, when he discovers the town's prejudices are causing disease of epidemic proportions.Now he must push aside his own grief and pain to treat the citizens of Dunstable Plains. But when he...
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The practice of medicine seems so arbitrary. Some live, some die. Even when you do your best. In a moment of despair and grief, Dr. Increase Graves moved his small family to rural New Hampshire to doctor the mill workers of the Industrial Revolution. He finds himself healing more than bodies, though, when he discovers the town's prejudices are causing disease of epidemic proportions.Now he must push aside his own grief and pain to treat the citizens of Dunstable Plains. But when he meets Jean Giatros, an herbalist from the Old Country, he discovers there is more to death than just dying. And more to life than just living.A story of learning to live in the midst of death.