Medicinal Herbs w/ Gordon Kenneson Saturday, Jul 28, 2018
Please join us on Saturday, July 28, 2018 from 9 – 10:30 a.m. for a program on Medicinal Herbs at Windsor Historical Society. Horticulturist Gordon Kenneson will share research into old medical texts and recipe books which has yielded fascinating herbal remedies, some still used, some blessedly not! Learn about Greek physician Hippocrates, often termed the father of medicine whose theories were still very much a part of English Colonial medicine. Bleeding, blistering, purging and puking, anyone? Kenneson will show and tell about herbs used in these treatments and how they were thought to reba |
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