Apothecary Walking Tour

Description

Hear about early Moravian medical practices. Learn how barber-surgeons would conduct blood letting and surgery without anesthesia. Get the recipe for the 1743 Elixer for a Long Life and find out how inoculations were done before vaccines. Explore the Apothecary museum- the oldest continually operating drug store in the U.S.--to find out what other medicines they used between 1743 and 1952.