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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Folger Shakespeare Library's medical exhibit tour tomorrow


I saw this a couple of nights ago and it's an excellent exhibit. This bit is clipped from their e-newsletter.


Good for What Ails You
Folger Exhibitions: Beyond Home Remedy
 
In an era before emergency rooms and HMOs, women offered vital medical care to their families and communities. This "kitchen physic" included dressing wounds, setting bones, delivering babies, administering medicine, and producing homemade remedies for a wide range of illnesses, including the much-dreaded plague. Beyond Home Remedy explores the broad scope of female medical practice in early modern England and America and sheds new light on women's contributions.

through May 14
10am to 5pm, Monday–Saturday
 
Free
Listen: Kitchen Physic
Learn More: Plague Water
Learn More: A Tudor Herbal
 
 
Personal Picks
Folger Fridays: Exhibition Tour
 
Join Rebecca Laroche, curator of Beyond Home Remedy, for a personal tour of the exhibition, which features a broad range of items from ingredient samples for early modern medicines to Martha Washington's cookbook.

"The exhibition cracks open our conventional sense of home remedies. We have countesses and duchesses and the serving women and everyone in between," she notes.

Fri, Feb 18
7pm


Meet at the First Folio display in the Great Hall.
 
Free



About the Folger

Home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is a major center for scholarly research; a lively venue for performances, readings, and exhibitions; and a national leader in humanities education.
 

 

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201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

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