The Black Swamp
Medicine Girls

will be at the next meeting
of the Defiance County
Genealogical Society
on 
Monday, March 27, 2017 
at
7:00 p.m.

St. John United Church 
of Christ, Webster Street,
adjacent to Defiance College campus

ALWAYS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The ladies will demonstrate examples of antique medical devices and treatments.  Explore the history of vintage medicine bottles, the diseases of the Black Swamp, and the treatments common for such ailments as consumption, quincy, lumbago, rheumatism, bad breath and gout.

 Learn about the old medicine show sales pitches and how one-half dollar could buy you a treatment that could cure anything that ailed you!

Join us for an 
Apothecary Adventure!

Jeanne Caryer and Susan Wiesehan, the Black Swamp Medicine Girls