Paducah, KY, United States
Dr. Reuben Saunders. On this site stood the office of Reuben Saunders, M.D., credited with discovering that hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera during epidemic here in 1873. Telegraphed prescription to other plague-stricken areas. Accepted by Materia Medica, world over. Honored by Ame
rican Medical Association and in Europe. See other side. Marker presented by the McCracken County Medical Society. (Reverse) Dr. Reuben Saunders - Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, September 6, 1808. Outst
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