Book 22, by Helen Wells
Illustrated by ???
Grosset & Dunlap, 1961
(Reissued as The Case of the Dangerous Remedy,
Tempo, Grosset & Dunlap, 1972, illustrated by ???;
and 1978, illustrated by "R. Hicinbotham"?)
"Well, now you're on your own, Cherry Ames," said the nurse supervisor. "Now you'll be the one and only nurse responsible for good public health nursing service in this entire county. Just you, Cherry."
--From Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse, p. 1
As a public health nurse in Iowa, Cherry works with federal authorities to quash the manufacture and distribution of a bogus remedy and discovers the secret of a decrepit, abandoned farmhouse.
Chapter 1: New Job, New Friends
Chapter 2: Guest at Aunt Cora's
Chapter 3: Jane's Story
This was the last book issued in the familiar reddish tweed format with a paper dust jacket; it was also the last book published in the yellow-spined pictorial cover format.
Chapter 4: All Kinds of Patients
Chapter 5: A Curious Emergency
Chapter 6: Medical Detective Work
Chapter 7: A Theft and Some Answers
Chapter 8: A House with a Secret
Chapter 9: The Search
Rural Nurse was issued in a digest-sized paperback edition, renumbered as book four and renamed The Case of the Dangerous Remedy, in 1972; Camp Nurse, At Hilton Hospital, and Island Nurse were also published in paperback in 1972. Rural Nurse also was reissued in a rack-sized paperback edition in 1978, along with At Hilton Hospital and Island Nurse.
Chapter 10: A Ruse Is Set Up
Chapter 11: Discoveries
Chapter 12: The Old Peddler Reappears
Chapter 13: Bad News
This is one of two books in the series to feature secret passages that date from the pre-Civil War days of the Underground Railroad, the other being Rest Home Nurse. Helen Wells wrote about the Underground Railroad in a young adult book entitled Escape by Night: A Story of the Underground Railway.
Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse
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