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I have just plain run out of time to do much blog reading. I’m really working hard just to get some of my bog posts done before I collapse each night. It will probably be this way until we leave Virginia and things calm down just a bit.
Hugh Mercer (January 17, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a soldier and physician. He became a brigadier general in the Continental Army and a close friend to George Washington. Mercer died as a result of his wounds received at the Battle of Princeton.
When Dr. Mercer wasn’t fighting in the Revolutionary War he was a physician in the town of Fredericksburg. His office is now a museum and we took the tour. My maiden name is Mercer and that side of my family came from Scotland. Dr. Mercer escaped from Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. So I figure somewhere along the line, way back when, we are probably related.
They don’t allow pictures so this one of the inside is from the website.
They also gave a very knowledgeable presentation on the uses of all the herbs that the doctor would have prescribed.
We really enjoyed this tour.
What a cool museum. I would need to know what my other options were for blood letting before I would agree to leeches...yuck!
ReplyDeleteHmm, think I like the modern technology better.
ReplyDeleteI'm having the same problem keeping up with blogs on my trip to AZ this fall. Just too dang busy!
ReplyDeleteAnd leeches are still used in modern medicine today for certain cases. Some things never change... :c)
ReplyDeleteWe also have the same problem with keeping up with blogs. There just isn't enough time in the day to do it when you are traveling.
ReplyDeleteAs for the leeches, I have heard that they are still used today, not often but in certain circumstances they are the preferred method.
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ReplyDeleteDoctoring has come a long long way.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the time we were visiting a living history museum when someone asked about my poor walking. Wanting to stay in their time period I told her I had gout. She got a kick out of that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not busy and I have trouble keeping up reading blogs. It's hard to pare down to a few when so many are so interesting!
ReplyDeleteI remember when we toured Hugh Mercer's place several years ago. Such an interesting place and so much history to take in.
ReplyDeleteMy maiden name is also Mercer and that side of the family also came from Scotland!! I wonder if WE are related??? It is indeed a small world!!!
Some good history and another spot we have missed.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are going to have to read more and blog less, you are giving us too many places to visit :-) Seriously, looks like a neat museum.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that herbs and all things natural are being ignored to the pharmaceutical and medical communities...for the want of the money.
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