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HEALTH CARE: HERBAL MEDICINE TO MODERN HOSPITALS Among early settlers of Parowan were two men with experience healing the sick who were therefore called doctors-Priddy Meeks and Calvin Crane Pendleton. Meeks was a self-educated practitioner of the Thompsonian school, promulgated by Dr. Samuel Thompson of New Hampshire, for healing the sick with herbs, roots, and other home remedies. Meeks was fifty-six years old when he arrived in Parowan in May 1851 to begin farming, exploring, working with the Indians, treating the sick, and teaching women nursing and midwifery.l Calvin Pendleton studied at the Electis Medical College at Worthington, Ohio, in 1838. This school advocated proper diet and temperance in eating and drinking and thus harmonized with teachings of Mormon leaders. After his baptism into the Mormon church in Ohio in 1838, Pendleton moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he was set apart to care for the sick. He received little money for his services as a doctor and made his living as a mechanic. George A. Smith convinced Pendleton to move to Parowan in 1854, where he established a gun and machine shop. He was also regarded as an accomplished gar222
