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Pocono Medical Center: 75 Years of Loyal Dedicated Service, 1815-1990

By Dr. John Appel et al. 1992. Softcover, 8.5 x 11, 88 p.
Subtitled “A History of the First 75 Years.” Self-published history of Monroe County’s community hospital.

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Pride and Promise: A Centennial History of East Stroudsburg University

By Lawrence Squeri, Neil Hogan and Peter Nevins. 1993. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25, 208 p.
Self-published history of East Stroudsburg University, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Monroe County’s only four-year institution of higher learning.

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The Spirit of Swiftwater: 100 Years at the Pocono Labs

By Jeff Widmer. 1997. Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.75, 150 p.
Corporate history of the vaccine laboratory founded in Swiftwater in 1897, today known as Sanofi Pasteur.

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By Jeff Widmer. 1997. Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.75, 150 p.
Corporate history of the vaccine laboratory founded in Swiftwater in 1897, today known as Sanofi Pasteur. (Pasteur Merieux Connaught at the time this book was written.)

In the early 1890s, an American with Canadian ancestry fled Brooklyn, N.Y., for the clean air of Pennsylvania to recuperate from cholera. There, at the Swiftwater Inn, Dr. Richard Slee met and married the innkeeper’s daughter and settled on land across Route 611 to claim his fortune.

His timing was perfect. Expansionism was sweeping America. Eastman, Rockefeller, Edison, and Ford ruled the Industrial Revolution. It was a time of Manifest Destiny, and Dr. and Ella Slee embraced it wholeheartedly.

Just as entrepreneurs had started to conquer the land, Louis Pasteur and others had begun to conquer disease. But the smallpox vaccines of the era caused infections. Euphoria gave way to public backlash. Dr. Slee traveled to the Pasteur Institute in France to acquire a new formula that promised fewer side effects.

In 1897, Slee established Pocono Biological Laboratories in Swiftwater, Pa., to manufacture and distribute smallpox vaccine.

From cottage industry to global leader, the Swiftwater facility influences health and healthcare policy throughout the world. Its history is more than a tale of bricks and mortar, of test tubes and machines. The Spirit of Swiftwater: 100 Years at the Pocono Labs is a study in human character, a saga of more than a thousand people who, despite the odds, have shown a remarkable ability to thrive.