From Folk Medicine to Professional Practice
October 21, 2006
8:30-3:30
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA
215-679-3103
www.schwenkfelder.com
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
$30 per person; special student rate only $15.00!
Lunch and refreshments included

The 18th century saw increasing advances in medical science and professional
healing.  Many Pennsylvania Germans, however, found traditional notions of
healing and their relationship to spirituality in conflict with professional
physicians who were becoming more common in towns and cities across the
region.

Presenters include:
Dr. Don Yoder on "Folk Medicine Practices Among the PA German Community"
Dr. A. Gregg Roeber on "Renewal and Body and Spirit in PA German Belief"
Donald Roan "Pow-Wowing"
Michael Showalter "Physic, Folk Cures and Faith:  Medicine at the Ephrata
Cloister"
Candace Perry "Dr. Christopher Heydrick: an 18th century German American
Physician"
Moderated by Dr. John Crellin, Medical Historian at Memorial University of
Newfoundland

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