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(Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1915) Good Ole Days --Infection Through Cigar Cutters When it is recognized how easily the…
Grandma's cure for Aching Limbs - and more - health remedies for the 1880s Do you have trouble with Aching limbs? Here's Grandmother's cure…
Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was by some accounts the first professional woman journalist in the United States. When her…
We often take for granted our health care today, but in the past, these diseases that we now can treat with vaccinations were feared…
{These health tips from the Perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland have changed over the years. } EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early…
Here are some unusual Home Remedies for common ailments from 1880 cookbook! Nervous spasms are usually relieved by a little salt taken into the…
YELLOW FEVER (Transcribed from: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 2 Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen) Alabama was first visited by this…
1853 YELLOW FEVER DEATHS NEAR THE DOG RIVER COTTON FACTORY & ST. STEPHEN'S ROAD (FROM: Report on the epidemic yellow fever of 1853 New…
Did you know....? In 1902, Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound…
(Our ancestors did not have access to medical treatment like we have today and came up with many home remedies. This is a very…
From New York Journal ca. 1908 To Polish Wood Floors ---- Take a strong boiled coffee and strain it twice through a fine strainer,…
Photographs of wounded veterans from World War II From time to time we find and publish photographs that might be of interest to families…
TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUMS ARE NO MORE! by JEAN BUTTERWORTH It was announced in the Birmingham News that as of June 1, 2011 that the Public…
Buttermilk is the liquid left behind after churning butter out of cream. "Before cream could be skimmed from whole milk, the milk was left…
[When conducting research for my historical fiction series, Tapestry of Love, I sometimes run across historical trivia that is very funny. I thought I'd share this one.]…
I think it is always interesting how time has changed our ideas regarding medicine. I love old books and found the following in an…
Anyone who has lived in the south knows about chigger bites. Here are some home remedies from a 1930's cookbook. Rub chigger bites with…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) ABSALOM PRATT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1793-1845) Bibb County,…
From the perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early rising cannot be too strongly insisted upon;…
PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: This is hilarious! But I imagine it was true. . . A prominent physician of Baltimore tells of an amusing…
How to cure rheumatic gout and using food for ailments instead of medicine (Transcribed from The Iron Age, Birmingham, March 5, 1874) An Englishman…
On Aug 6, 1879 - 30,000 people from Memphis fled from epidemic - some were put off in the woods rather than allow entrance…
