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Dr. Edwards was the physician in
Mendota, Illinois at the time that James "Wild Bill" Hickok returned to
Mendota in May 1869. He treated a wound Wild Bill had
received in his right leg. Allegedly, this wound was received from the
lance of a Cheyenne raiding party while he was carrying military
dispatches between Fort Wallace in Kansas and Fort Lyon in Colorado
Territory. The wound
had become infected by the time Wild Bill returned to Mendota and needed
continual care to prevent amputation of the leg. Dr. Edwards was said to have had one of the very few powerful microscope in the State of Illinois at that time. Doctors came from far away to use his microscope.
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