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Conversation in an Asian medicine store

All over Asia, you will find market booths or stores filled with dried spices, dried animal parts, and flowers. These are used to create medicine and home remedies. At the beginning of this conversation, we are talking about a fish stomach. There are apparently...

Format: audio

The County Doctor Museum

The Country Doctor Museum offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about the history of health care.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Macon County Historical Museum

This Museum's collection includes artifacts from the earliest civilization of the area through the mid twentieth century.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Cargo manifests of Confederate blockade runners

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.4

Cargo manifests of various ships that ran the Union blockade to bring goods from Nassau, in the Bahamas, to Wilmington, North Carolina, during the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.

Format: document

Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

Midwives and herbal medicine

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.3

Excerpts from the medicine recipe book of Rachel Allen, who lived near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, show how residents of the backcountry treated wounds, illness, and disease.

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

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Colonial Williamsburg

This extensive website features access to the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library collections, primary source materials, videos of what life was like in the 18th century in Williamsburg, Va. and much more. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation