We Are All Well: 

Healing and Healthcare in Early America

 

March 9, 2007

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

 

 

A Symposium on American Social History and Material Culture

 

We are All Well explores the history of medicine and health care in
America from 1750-1850. Presentations, costumed interpretations and
tabletop exhibits examine treatment of common illnesses and epidemic
diseases, remedies and medicines from the apothecary and garden,
training of physicians and midwives, pregnancy and childbirth, medical
instruments and other associated material culture.

 

 

Presenters & Exhibitors

Anna Dhody-Hager, Mutter Museum

Clarissa Dillon, Past Masters in Early American Domestic Arts

Kris Dippre, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Marie Jenkins Schwartz, University of Rhode Island

Dale Smith, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Nancy Webster, Friends Historical Association

Mike Williams, Brigade of the American Revolution

 

 

Cost: $65.00. 

Advance registration is required and must be received by February 28,
2007. To register, email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>  or phone Museum Collections at
(703) 631-1429 or FAX (703) 631-8319.

 

Sponsors

Fairfax County Park Authority 

George Mason University-History Department


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