Dr. J. H. McCracken the oldest physician in town was still sticking to his old standby of a prescription: Give a man a jug for what ails him. Dr. McCracken's medicine is far from being the alcoholic type. It is the water - the kind that puts Mineral Wells on the map as a health center. Throughout his career, he found mineral water was curing people and presented a paper on the subject to a state meeting of the Texas Medical Association. Many scoff at his science but was later elected as president of the Texas Medical Association. He is now 85 years old and will be honored in September by the University of Tennessee Medical School where he graduated in 1891. He practices in Mineral Wells since 1892.
This project was funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services/Texas State Library and Archives Commission.