Dr. John Wadsworth and Colonial Era Medicine Talk with Carolyn Ravenscroft (Duxbury)

Join Archivist & Historian Carolyn Ravenscroft for an exploration of colonial medicine through the remarkable handwritten medical notebook of Revolutionary-era Duxbury physician Dr. John Wadsworth. Compiled in 1755, the notebook contains recipes for pills, elixirs, plasters, poultices, and remedies for ailments both familiar and mysterious. Using this extraordinary manuscript as a guide, the lecture examines how physicians diagnosed and treated illness in eighteenth-century New England.