Fur Trade Medicine

[Rod]

On another board Isaac Walters posted links to a couple of articles on common patent medicines, like Turlington's Balsam and Essence of Peppermint. These were rather common medicines of the time, and show up on any number of fur trade inventories.m Well worth a read...

www.gutenberg.org/files/30162/30162-h/30162-h.htm

www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/Jones1981.pdf

Rod

[buckconner]

Take a look at our own North American Indian Tribes and their use of plants. Native Americans are renowned for their medicinal plant knowledge. It is rumored they first started using plants and herbs for healing after watching animals eat certain plants when they were sick. In order to protect these plants from over harvesting, the medicine men used to pick every third plant they found. The Native Americans had a spiritual view of life, and to be healthy, a person had to have a sense of purpose and follow a righteous, harmonious, and balanced path in life. They believed some illnesses were life lessons the person needed to learn and that they shouldn’t interfere. Many modern remedies and medicines are based on the Native American knowledge of the different plants and herbs they used for thousands of years.

Thanks for this posting Rod.

Buck