Day: Caring For a Town -The Physicians of Westford, Mass., 1740-1960
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“Caring For a Town, The Physicians of Westford, Mass., 1740-1960,” the author has described 49 of the physicians who served the town, the care facilities, school and publichealth nurses, and the Whitney-Herrick fund. (170 pages) 2nd edition (2021)
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For a small town, Westford has an amazing medical history that extends from 1740 to the
current day. Did you know there were nursing homes in Westford Center and
Graniteville, as well as an osteopathic hospital, and a sanatorium? Did you know the
Abbot Worsted Company had a hospital in Forge Village? And did you know that
Chelmsford Medical Associates got its start right here in Westford? In the manuscript,
“Caring For a Town, The Physicians of Westford, Mass., 1740-1960,” the author has
described 49 of the physicians who served the town, the care facilities, school and public
health nurses, and the Whitney-Herrick fund.
Names like Dow, Wells (who died here in the 1918 influenza epidemic), Sleeper,
Forsley, Cole, Huckins, Lambert all well respected physicians with wonderful stories; Dr.
Guarino, who lived at 82 Graniteville Road, a Presidential Medal of Freedom award
nominee, who with his engineering brother Louis, were inventors of one of the first
mechanical kidneys. And Dr. Blaney, who was known to blow the lint off pills from his
pocket before handing them out. He was such a short man, when people saw what
appeared to be a driverless car coming down the road, they knew it was Doc Blaney, a
man who now has a street named in his memory.
With pictures and stories, what a great piece of Westford history to curl up with as we
wait out the end of the current epidemic. (2nd Edition 2021)
