Frontier Doctors Of Indian Territory Of Oklahoma

On the western frontier, most of the Doctors had very little medical training. Some of the men that did the Doctoring were Dentist, Barbers and Veterinarians. They did there best with what knowledge they possessed. In today’s world, the Emergency Medical Technician most commonly called EMT’s, has more training then the Doctors of the 1800’s or even over into the early 1900’s. The Doctors of the late 1800’s knew how to do very simple surgery, dig for bullets, sew up cuts and to maybe set broken bones, deliver baby’s and treat very little of the diseases that confronted them. Some of the early doctors learned remedies from the Indian Shaman, herb healers, of the medical plants that grew locally in the area they settled. There medical knowledge of medicine to give people was very limited, to say the least, but the Doctor’s were valued in any community.