https://latterdaysaintmag.com/brigham-y ... -medicine/
herbalist John Heinerman observes:
“First of all, he [Brigham Young] believed in doctors, but only to the extent of fractures, sprains and such, with a surgeon necessary for amputation when they may occur … the real reason is because a good majority of the Mormon people wanted these services for themselves in the territory.
“And rather than suffer to see some corrupt Gentile practitioners come in and work their stuff upon the members of the Church, he felt that if they had to have doctors, they might as well have those of their own faith treat them. The territory had already been ‘blessed’ with a few of those kind of the world, and he did not want any more if he could help it. (Joseph Smith and Herbal Medicine, page 93)”
