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  • Category: Living History
  • Founded: Apr 4, 2005
  • Language: English
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668 surg18thc Send Email May 12, 2010
3:15 pm
Medical Colleagues, I am not sure if the change has gone through, but my new email address is MarjyArts@..., for those I haven't heard from in a while....
669 aardvark
aardvark1956... Send Email
May 26, 2010
11:20 pm
http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&handle=psu.pmhb/1172610255&view=body&content-type=pdf_1# No, it won't help...
670 Bernard
bernardkazwick Send Email
Jul 2, 2010
10:59 am
Dear List; I have been copying "Synopsis Medicince or a Summary View of the Whole Practice of Physick." by John Allen,M. and F.R.S. 1746 from microfilm. YMOS. ...
671 Jay Callaham
callaham... Send Email
Jul 2, 2010
12:09 pm
And? Jay callaham@... "Molon Labe" - - attributed to Leonidas, Spartan King "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -- Thomas Paine "If you do...
672 Lee & Dot Fisher
lupa03820 Send Email
Oct 4, 2010
11:11 pm
To all 18th physicians. This list has been slow for too long, so its time to get some discussion going. A group of us were talking at the Lebanon CT event...
673 Mikey
mikeeeebx Send Email
Oct 4, 2010
11:26 pm
Mike here in Brooklyn, New York, and while time and responsibilities have not permitted much reenacting of any sort over the last few years, I have been moving...
674 bartpressbooks Send Email Oct 7, 2010
5:45 am
Now Available! The eBook Edition of THE BOOK OF THE FAIR, 1700-1825 by Keith West. Essential Guide for All Living History Enthusiasts! For more information,...
675 David Ledoyen
ledoyen_david Send Email
Oct 28, 2010
10:58 am
List, This amazing book is for sale one Iegor¹s Internet auction page: http://www.iegor2.net/working/page3.php?lang=en Ref.: 8928 PERRET, Jean-Jacques L'art...
677 bartpressbooks Send Email Jan 10, 2011
12:20 am
eBook Sale Extended -- THE BOOK OF THE FAIR, 1700-1825 by Keith West. Still Available at a Extended Sale price of $9.95. Essential Guide for Historians and...
678 pamatshshs Send Email Mar 21, 2011
5:45 pm
Hello, I recently joined this group, and am now in the process of re-habilitating a medical program centered on 17th- and 18th century medical practices in the...
679 Wendy Moyer
wendysdolls Send Email
Mar 21, 2011
5:57 pm
I had the kids make "pills" out of sculpy clay (in browns I mixed prior and put into pre portioned amounts) Then we made "pill" tiles from heavy printer paper...
680 k6j3p@...
k6j3p Send Email
Mar 21, 2011
9:30 pm
Can you do that with me???? KP ... From: Wendy Moyer <wendymoyer@...> To: Physick18C <Physick18C@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 1:57 pm ...
681 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 21, 2011
10:39 pm
Pam, Would be glad to exhange ideas with you. I have an 18th century pill maker; I've seen many of them in displays in England. You mix the desired herbs in...
682 minuteman@...
patriotsparade Send Email
Mar 22, 2011
1:43 pm
Dear Richard, this book sounds most interesting. Please keep the group informed as to how to obtain this book as I would be most interested. Also, can you...
683 Lee
wmwartman Send Email
Mar 22, 2011
9:42 pm
Richard-- Could you post a picture of your pill roller? All of the brass and wood pill rollers I have seen have been identified as 19th century. I am not...
684 Lee
wmwartman Send Email
Mar 22, 2011
9:59 pm
Pam--I have had kids tear and roll bandages and shown them how to apply them on each other. I also have a plastic lower jaw mounted on a board and affix one...
685 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 22, 2011
10:17 pm
Not sure that I have a digital photo of the pill maker. Will look.  But I  have seen them in a number of museums in London, in the garret of the Old...
686 pamatshshs Send Email Mar 23, 2011
1:05 pm
Wow! Thank you, everybody for a bunch of wonderful ideas for hands-on activities! Richard, thank you for offering to exchange ideas further -- I plan to...
687 Wendy Moyer
wendysdolls Send Email
Mar 23, 2011
1:15 pm
Hi Pam, Yes if it proves that there are no pill rollers during the 18th century (which I have not heard of being so yet) then a pill tile & rolling out by hand...
688 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 23, 2011
2:15 pm
Pam, A pill maker device in colonial American would have been a rare luxury. So, rolling by hand was likely. I like to talk about the perenial desire -then and...
689 Wendy Moyer
wendysdolls Send Email
Mar 23, 2011
2:25 pm
I like Cullen's idea as long as it does not do the patient harm and there is not really anything else to be done give a placebo (inactive pill or other thing)...
690 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 23, 2011
2:27 pm
Not very good photos but I have attached them. The wooden pill maker was made for me before I was given the wooden/brass one. Ear candling is still being done ...
691 Bernard Carol Kazwick
bernardkazwick Send Email
Mar 23, 2011
3:12 pm
My local health food store sells ear candles, been selling them for years. Bernard Kazwick...
692 Nancy Stewart
nstewart130 Send Email
Mar 24, 2011
5:19 pm
Please explain ear candling.  What was/is supposed to be accomplished?  How is it done?  Nancy Stewart Campbell's Rifles and Bookstore @ Guilford...
693 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 24, 2011
10:46 pm
I’m not joking! It’s really your chance!... http://www.einzig-art-ig.ch/page.php?paPage=74ko5...
694 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Mar 25, 2011
12:48 pm
Ear candling is done with a paper/fabric tube. One end is inserted into the ear. The other end is lighted. The smoke goes into the ear and clears the...
695 David C Jahntz
davidjahntz Send Email
Mar 25, 2011
1:38 pm
Ah, smoke. I think an interesting aside to these kinds of medical notions could be during the first half of the 20th century, cigarette advertising suggested...
696 pamatshshs Send Email Mar 25, 2011
2:50 pm
I have seen the modern-day ear candles at my food coop, but are these close enough to those used in the 18th C, in terms of materials/construction, to pass in...
697 minuteman@...
patriotsparade Send Email
Mar 25, 2011
3:36 pm
Amazon has them with beeswax and unbleached muslin cloth which I understand is more period correct. Be careful not to order the paraffin ear candles. Tom B ...
698 Richard Kennedy
rkennedy_02915 Send Email
Apr 1, 2011
11:27 pm
Natural formula which can help you to stop smoking!. http://ecutrip.the-best-web-sites.com/web/page.php?gjcgoogleId=42jt9...
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