This Week In Southern History: Feb. 18, 1885 - Mark Twain Publishes Huckleberry Finn
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This week in Southern History, we go all the way back to February 18th, 1885, and here’s what the world looked like then!:
Dr. William W. Grant makes history when he performs the world’s first successful appendectomy on English watercolorist Mary Gartside.
Over in France, Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux save young Joseph Meister’s life after he was bitten by…
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