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Month: January 2018

Double, Double Boiler Trouble

On January 27, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn HandcraftingLeave a comment

I am not one to venture enthusiastically into the kitchen. So when I read the instructions for making a salve, I worried that it looked a bit too much like cooking. And what would I do without a double boiler? Could this possibly end well?

A Cup of Sage Tea: Induced Abortion Has a Long History in Women’s Health Care

On January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn HerbsLeave a comment

I often teach the history of herbal contraceptives in my courses, but I had never heard that common garden sage was on the list of potential pregnancy dangers. Sage is another reminder of the long history of induced abortion in women's health care.

Culpeper is a Man, not a Spice

On January 17, 2018January 17, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn History, Methods1 Comment

When I teach the history of medicine, I ask students to think about how everyday people — people much like themselves, but in more Puritanical garb — responded to symptoms such as runny noses, sore throats, sprained ankles, and relentless diarrhea. We turn to Nicholas Culpeper for the answers.

Plantain Beginnings

On January 13, 2018January 16, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn HerbsLeave a comment

When Martha Ballard's niece was ill in 1794, she made her a syrup that contained plantain. Two hundred and twenty-three years later, I learned that this useful herb was growing wild in my backyard.

A-Wildcrafting We Will Go

On January 13, 2018January 16, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn MethodsLeave a comment

Wildcrafting is the methodology of those who gather medicinal plants from the wild. Surprisingly, its basic tenets are not all that different from the methods and ethics of the historian.

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