Sep 28  A Physician in the Hall of Fame
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 28/09/2016

Elizabeth Robertson presents today's Natchez History Minute about Dr. John Wesley Monette, the first physician inducted into the Mississippi Hall of Fame.  Monette first gained notoriety for his observations on cholera and yellow fever. In the 1840s,, he compiled an early important history of the discovery and settlement of the Mississippi Valley.