Item Detail
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10227
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3
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3
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English
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Delegate John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake Physician Following the Civil War
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 1982
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50
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354-60
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Dr. John M. Bernhisel was the first 'university-trained physician to embrace Mormonism.' There was distrust of modern medical practices in frontier conditions. Bernhisel overcame Mormon distrust of orthodox doctors because he had been closely associated with Joseph Smith and was friend of Brigham Young.