Up for some herbage and heavy metal? No, we don’t mean a rock concert. Episode 3 of ‘Between the Lines’ explores the medical treatments available to those who lived in early 19th century Indiana. The use of garden grown herbs and heavy metals like mercury and copper were standard treatments. Many of those same herbs we still use today.
Featuring Laura Willyard, a domestic history scholar and Scott Frede MD, medicines used by Jacob Weaver and his family are analyzed. You will be surprised and perhaps shocked at what the leading home remedy book of the time prescribed. You’ll also be glad of the modern cures we now use in their place.
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One of the Rangers: Part 1
American history as you know it might have been changed by the actions of one man. “One of the Rangers” explores the waning days of the War of 1812 in the west. While rumors of peace with Britain were being circulated, in the Indiana Territory, things were different. Join us and our historians in...
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One of the Rangers, Part 2
In the closing days of the War of 1812 a murder took place at Ft. Harrison, Indiana Territory. “An act so Atrocious” was about to unleash violence and retribution too horrible to be conceived. Did this murder deserve atonement and in what form could it be? Find out as we present part 2 of “One of...
