Medicines (Other Keyword)
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Explorations of Chinese occupied sites in the United States have often commented on the presence of Chinese medicines on those sites and how those products represent the continuity of Chinese practices. What has received considerably less attention is the use of Euroamerican patent medicines by Chinese immigrants. Recent excavations in Sandpoint, Idaho have provided a unique opportunity to explore this issue. Excavations of a Chinese residence/business resulted in the recovery of...
Mariners' Maladies: Examining Medical Equipage From The Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck (2015)
Treating the sick and injured of a sea-bound community on shipboard was challenging in the best of times. Chronic and periodic illnesses, wounds, amputations, toothaches, burns and other indescribable maladies of the crew, captain, and enslaved cargo had to be treated. Evidence of the tools used to heal the sick and wounded has been recovered from shipwreck 31CR314, identified as Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge (formerly La Concorde, a French slaver). Excavations by NC Department of Cultural...