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Healing Through History: Ancient Herbal Remedies of Early Civilizations

Take a step back in time and discover the healing secrets of ancient civilizations! From the Egyptians to the Greeks, Chinese, and Native Americans, delve into the world of herbal remedies that have stood the test of time. 🌿 #HerbalMedicine #AncientRemedies #NaturalHealing #TraditionalMedicine

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18th October 1616, birth of the English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper. Inspired by the work of medical reformers such as Paracelsus (whose birthday was last week), Culpepper published his books of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge in English. By publishing in English, Culpepper’s works could be read by ordinary folk healers who could not read Latin. His most known work was ‘The English Physician’ published in 1653, it is known today as Culpeper’s Herbal. His questioning of traditional methods and knowledge, pairing herbs and planetary influences to counter illnesses and disease; led him to be accused of Witchcraft in 1642. One of his ancestors was Thomas Culpeper, the secret lover of Queen Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII who was sentenced to death by her husband, and beheaded on the 13 February 1542. The bottles shown are handmade from casts taken from actual 18th and 19th century medicine bottles, with original artwork inspired by actual medicine history are available on the website. www.ofgraveconcern.com/apothecarybottlesandjars Follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales of dark history, and original historically inspired artwork from 1348 - 1848. #onthisdayinhistory #botany #herbalists #herbalism #astrologyposts #astrologers #historyofscience #sciencehistory #culpeper #nicholasculpeper #folkmedicine #herbalmedicinecabinet #herbalremedies #herbalhistory #historyofmedicine #medicinehistory #thisdayinhistory #17thcentury #paracelsus #medicalhistory #interestingfacts #medicinebottle #medicinebottles #antiquebottles #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #bottleart #bottleartwork https://www.instagram.com/p/CWeI57vPdtW/?utm_medium=tumblr

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30th June 1665, the number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during the month of June is recorded as 6,137 people. The number taken from the official Bills of Mortality did not record the urban poor, so the true number was much higher. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of bubonic plague to occur in England, and would kill an estimated 100,000 people, almost a quarter of London's population. In December 1664, and again in early 1665, a bright comet was observed; being noted by both Samuel Pepys in his diary, and also later by Daniel Defoe in his "Journal of the Plague Year" written in 1722. Wondering what portent the comet held, Londoners would not have to wait long for the first signs of the latest outbreak of the plague. Samuel Pepys further mentions seeing houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury Lane, that same June, meaning somebody inside was infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death. Pepys diary again mentions the Plague on July 20th, where Samuel Pepys records being given a bottle of plague water, a medicinal distilled water, containing herbs and roots steeped in white wine and brandy, that would protect the drinker. Believed to originate from miasma, or the corruption of the air, the herbs contained in plague water would also be held against the nose for protection, or another remedy recorded by Pepys is the smoking of tobacco. In his "Journal of the Plague Year”, Daniel Defoe records dismissively of more esoteric protection such as Londoners hanging the word ‘Abracadabra’ on their doorways to ward off the sickness; the word originating as a healing amulet to protect against malaria, (continued in the comments) #bubonicplague #plaguedoctor #plaguedoctorart #plague #greatplagueoflondon #greatplague #danieldefoe #samuelpepys #thursdaytales #herbalhistory #folkmedicine #abracadabra #miasma #17thcentury #17thcenturyhistory #thebeggarsopera #historicalstory #historicalstories #plagueart #highwaymen #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #historyofcrime #crimehistory #rogues #standanddeliver #todayinhistory #onthisdayinhistory #historicalillustration #darkromanticism https://www.instagram.com/p/CQympFTFXzk/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A quick look at my website to introduce a new weekly posting called Wednesday Wares, where I display a piece of my art and go over its inspiration, history, and how it’s made. This week the website: I wanted an aged and vintage aesthetic, using scenes to display the art, with the art having its own section, such as ‘Medicine and Mortality’, and ‘Crime and Punishment’. Each section was then set up to be a historical setting, like a stage set, for each section, for example an apothecary, or a gaol. Let me know your thoughts and comments below. Follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales and art of the historically Gothic and macabre. #ofgraveconcern #supportsmallbusiness #supportartists #supportartisans #illustrationwork #strangehistory #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #darkhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #gothicliterature #darkillustration #illustrationartwork #historicalillustration #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalhistory #illustrationwork #gothichistory #gothicfiction #gothicillustration #victoriangothicstyle #printmaking #printedart #makersmovement #printedmatter #vintageaesthetic #steampunkstyle https://www.instagram.com/p/CLsENKGHTD-/?igshid=1aa9to8k92eva

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21st January 1677, publication of the first medical pamphlet in North America, published in Boston: ’A brief rule to guide the common people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.’ written by Thomas Thacher, appeared on this day during the smallpox epidemic of that year. Boston in 1677 had only been established for 37 years however smallpox had already become established in Native American populations, who had had no previous contact with the disease, it would kill an estimated 90 percent of North America’s Native peoples, before the end of the 17th century. Even in populations where it was established, smallpox would continue to kill an estimated 400,000 people a year in 18th Century Europe alone; with on average one out of every six persons who contracted smallpox dying from it. Again in Boston in 1721, the Reverend Cotton Mather, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, would provoke controversy by pushing for a treatment told to him by his African slave Onesimus, who had been inoculated in Africa as a boy. On June 6, 1721, Mather sent reports on inoculation to local physicians, most viewing inoculation as violating the natural laws of medicine. However Boston doctor, and great uncle of future President John Adams, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, did successfully try the procedure on his youngest son and two slaves. In 1798 a smallpox vaccination was successfully demonstrated and proved to be effective by Dr. Edward Jenner, leading to smallpox’s global eradication in 1980. Continued in the comments. #macabreart #potterysale #pottery #ceramics #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #herbology #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #gothicstyle #illustrationwork #historymystery #historymysteries #smallpox #smallpoxhospital #newenglandhistory #newengland #bostonhistory #edwardjenner #tarotillustration #tarotart #tarotartist #tarotdecks https://www.instagram.com/p/CKbt8XDHpH9/?igshid=1nfknh60dt9sb

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17th January 1574, birth of English Paracelsian physician, astrologer, mathematician, and cosmologist Robert Fludd, Fludd’s occult cabalist philosophy, and hermetic approaches to knowledge, set him in opposition to the German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler, who criticised Fludd's theory of cosmic harmony. Fludd also defended the theory of sympathetic medical magic, especially the healing power of a ‘weapon salve’, the healing of a wound by treating the weapon that made it with the patient's blood, and human fat. In 1618 Fludd proposed the first design for a perpetual motion machine he called a "water screw", his perpetual motion machine designs were still gaining patents into the 1870s. Johannes Kepler’s aversion to Fludd’s sympathetic magic, was not possibly all due to scientific and rational reasoning at the beginning of the scientific revolution in the 17th century. On the 7th August 1620, Kepler’s mother was accused and imprisoned for witchcraft, with the charge of concocting an evil brew, to sicken a neighbour. Imprisoned for 14 months, she was eventually released due to the legal defense written by her son. All art shown is original, all the bottles are made from molds cast from actual antique bottles, with added historically inspired artwork with real macabre and strange medicines from history. They can be found for sale on the website alongside the prints. See link in bio. @ofgrave.concern www.ofgraveconcern.com #robertfludd #johanneskepler #witchtrials #witchtrial #witchhistory #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #astronomyart #herbology #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory #sympatheticmagic #macabreartwork #macabreart #medicalhistory #usnea #strangehistory #weirdhistory #interestingart #interestingfacts #medicine #medicinebottle #medicinebottles #corpsemedicine #gruesome https://www.instagram.com/p/CKJkgFjnJbc/?igshid=ryw73v408hzs

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🌱 💀 Usnea In the medieval period those suffering from wounds inflicted in battle, or a variety of other ailments could be treated with ‘Unguentum armariun’ a magnetic treatment from bandages or medicines that had been infused with a liniment using usnea. Usnea was the highly prized moss that was collected from the skulls of the dead, preferably the skulls of individuals who had died in battle or had met violent ends. This moss was considered medicinally potent due to the belief that it contained the remaining spirit, especially if that spirit had been trapped by a violent death which in turn had been absorbed by the moss or lichen growing on the skull. This spirit could then be absorbed to empower the sick person’s spirit and heal them. All art shown is original and inspired by the actual history described. The bottles are handmade using molds made from actual 18th and 19th century bottles, and decorated with artwork inspired by the macabre history of medicine. They can be found for sale at www.ofgraveconcern.com/apothecarybottlesandjars Cannibalistic medicine and the ingestion of corpses was an accepted medical practice from the medieval period right up to the 19th century. Peaking during the 16th and 17th century medicines containing human fat, brains, and blood were popular from the lowest in society to the highest. #macabre #macabreartwork #macabreart #macabreartwork #medicalhistory #usnea #historyofmedicine #moss #strangehistory #weirdhistory #interestingart #interestingfacts #medicine #medicinebottle #medicinebottles #antiquebottles #historymemes #historymemes #corpsemedicine #skull #gruesome #darkart #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory #historicalstories https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4jzHQnhmw/?igshid=1uwirn9v2nowj

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10th March 1702, the first English daily newspaper the "Daily Courant" was printed for the first time by Elizabeth Mallet. Previously Mallet and her husband had dominated the trade in printing "last dying speeches", by condemned prisoners before they were executed at Tyburn. During the early 18th century, public executions were as popular as they had been in the century’s preceding it. The widespread use of broadsides (early public notices), and the emerging public sphere in the form of printed media in coffee houses ensured that the dying words of executed criminals and pirates were always available for a public to watch and read about. The "Daily Courant” newspaper consisted of a single page, with advertisements on the reverse side, many of those being for patent medicines. With the advent of newspapers, also began coffee houses, where a slight increase in literacy during the period fuelled the consumption of news; with coffee houses becoming political meeting points, each side frequenting their own coffee shops. The medical advertising became an intregral part of the dualism of coffee shops and newspapers, in fact the early marketing of early medicines through their ‘letters patent’ (royal approval) fueled the circulation of early papers, which in turn created the ‘public sphere’. Many advertising and sales techniques were also pioneered during this period by patent medicine promoters. To keep patent medicines in the early public sphere, they began to use distinctive bottle shapes, and also claim in their advertising that no disease was beyond the cure of their medical formulae. All art shown is inspired by the history above, continued in the comments. #mysteryhistory #historicalmysteries #historicalillustration #vintagegothic #gothicillustration #steampunkillustration #historical #historicalstories #historicalstory #vintagelooks #vintagelooking #gothichorror #historymystery #strangehistory #weirdhistory #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory #18thcenturyhistory #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #printmaking #printmaker #regencygothic #historicscene https://www.instagram.com/p/CMU7RvDHSaX/?igshid=1d300y1c5l0ka

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This weeks ‘History Mystery’ 5th March 1815, death of German physician and astronomer Franz Anton Mesmer, father of "mesmerism", the 18th forerunner of hypnotism. Influenced by the English physician Richard Mead, Mesmer incorporated Mead’s theories that the gravitational pull of the planets affected human health by acting upon an invisible fluid found in the human body. In 1775 Mesmer revised this theory into his own as “animal magnetism”. These fluids he concluded could be manipulated by the use of magnetized objects, to clear the body of disease caused by their incorrect flow. Practising his method to growing popularity in Vienna, he relocated to Paris in 1778, after being accused by Viennese physicians of fraud. Finding success in Paris, he was again accused in 1784 by Parisian doctors of fraud. In response King Louis XVI appointed a commission of scientists and physicians to investigate Mesmer’s claims and methods. The committee included the American ambassador Benjamin Franklin and the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. The committee finally concluded that there was no scientific basis for Mesmer’s claim, or the existence of the fluid in the body, and the movement named for him declined. Incidentally Richard Mead is also known for his medicinal cure all ‘Snail Water’, his recipe recorded in his work ‘A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it’, published in 1720. Dr. Meads recipe, for use by the poor who could not afford more expensive treatments, called for the use of snails, worms, berries and a mixture of herbs, which would need to be ingested by the patient. Continued in the comments; #mesmerism #snails #mysteryhistory #historicalmysteries #mysteriesdecoded #historicalillustration #vintagegothic #victorian gothic #gothicillustration #steampunkillustration #historical #historicalstories #historicalstory #vintagelooks #vintagelooking #gothichorror #historymystery #printedmatter #printmaking #creepyhistory #strangehistory #weirdhistory #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CMC221hH0oy/?igshid=xrpycofz1i6b

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February 13th 1832, first appearance of cholera in London during the second cholera pandemic from 1826 to 1837. The disease unknown in Europe before this period had spread from India and western Asia, and had reached Russia by 1830, where claims of 250,000 cases and 100,000 deaths were reported. It was carried to Poland during the Polish–Russian War of 1830–31, reaching the north of Britain in December 1831, carried by passengers on a ship from the Baltic. In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims. Cholera would return during the third pandemic (1846–60), a decade later, claiming over 10,000 lives in London, and 23,000 deaths across the country. At the time despite the emergence of germ theory in the 19th century, the debate between the modern theory of contagion, the spread from person to person was still challenged by the theory of miasmas the theory of poisonous vapours, and foul decayed particles in the air; the theory that had explained all outbreaks since the Black Death, six hundred years before. As the emergence of cholera spread across Europe both sides entrenched their theories, and the debate became heated. With the miasma theory being defended by those campaigning to improve the unsanitary conditions of urban living. Without strong evidence by the contaignon camp, it made sense to the inhabitants of cities whose rapid industrialization had led to appalling, dirty and cramped living conditions. The exact conditions where outbreaks occurred, and where the conditions produced the foulest quality of air. Continued in the comments: #darkillustration #illustrationartwork #cholera #illustrationwork #historymystery #historymysteries #strangehistory #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #darkhistory #oddhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #miasma #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory #historicalillustration #gothichistory #victoriangothicstyle #historylesson #historyfacts #darkacademia #creepyhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CLM0VTSnXir/?igshid=ik5b8du45397

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Valentines art in production! Stay tuned for historical love potions, and literary doomed lovers! Cards, bottles and candles all inspired by historical fact and fiction based upon love from 1348 to 1848. #valentinesdaydecor #valentinesdayhistory #valentinesart #valentinesartsandcrafts #valentinesartwork #lovepotions #historyofvalentinesday #lavoisin #heartartwork #heartartist #frenchillustration #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #hiddenhistory #historicalmystery #historicalmysteries #darkhistory #oddhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #illustration #darkillustration #medicinebottle #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #medicinehistory #herbalhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ9A-hznUzT/?igshid=1d21f772kuzx9

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10th January 1654, death of the English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper. Using a combination of reason experience and astrology, Culpeper devoted himself to using herbs to treat illness. Questioning traditional methods and knowledge, he paired herbs and planetary influences to counter illnesses and disease. For these methods he was accused of Witchcraft in 1642. His most known work was ‘The English Physician’ published in 1653, it is known today as Culpeper’s Herbal. All art shown is original, all the bottles are made from molds cast from actual antique bottles, with added historically inspired artwork with real macabre and strange medicines from history. They can be found for sale on the website. See link in bio. #historymystery #historymysteries #17thcentury #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #hiddenhistory #historicalmystery #historicalmysteries #darkhistory #oddhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #illustration #darkillustration #medicinebottle #historyofmedicine #historicalillustration #ceramicartists #ceramicbottle #ceramicbottles #nicholasculpeper #astronomyart #herbology #medicinehistory #herbalmedicine #herbalhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3iBUXnOlg/?igshid=12ffndppkgbx6

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