Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180) and index.
Contents:
"Everyone was poor" -- An autumn arrival -- The transformation of nineteenth-century Maine -- Religious and ethnic struggles -- Yankee benevolence -- First foundations -- Portrait of a patient -- The nuns and the Yankees -- Beyond health care -- Appendix A: Lewiston's parish statistics -- Appendix B: Hospital general Sainte-Marie patient statistics -- Appendix C: Central Maine General Hospital patient statistics -- Appendix D: Lewiston's Grey Nuns.
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