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About Evelyn Ridge
In the summer of 1878, during the cholera outbreak that swept through Dodge City’s cattle-drive camps, Evelyn Ridge stitched a makeshift surgical tent from wagon tarps and boiled her own sutures in vinegar when antiseptic carbolic acid ran out. She treated over two hundred men in twelve days, many with compound fractures or dysentery, using a modified version of Dr. Joseph Lister’s techniques adapted for frontier conditions: charcoal-filtered water, sun-sterilized linen, and willow-bark poultices to reduce fever and inflammation. Unlike most physicians of the era, she kept meticulous case logs in a leather-bound ledger now held at the Kansas Historical Society, cross-referencing symptoms with local plant life and weather patterns to anticipate outbreaks. Her practice wasn’t just reactive, it was predictive, grounded in observation, not dogma. She refused payment from widows and orphaned children, accepting only traded goods: a mended rifle lock, a hand-stitched quilt, a jar of wild-plum jam. That ledger, its margins filled with sketches of medicinal roots and notes on horseback pulse readings, remains the earliest known clinical record authored by a woman physician operating independently on the High Plains.
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