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Medicine Chest, 19th century.
Normand Desjardins Collection.
Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre.
At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, in the absence of doctors and pharmacists, each family of colonists probably had a medicine chest in order to look after its family unit. This type of chest could also have been used by doctors. Certain families even grew their own medicinal herbs. The largest were used on boats, and the Captain had the responsibility of filling it before departure. The medicine chest that appears in the exhibition came from the Thompson House in New Carlisle and dates from the 19th century. Until the middle of the 19th century, the presence of permanent doctors was cruelly missing in Gaspesia.
(Photo - Heritage New Carlisle)
Normand Desjardins Collection.
Kempffer Cultural and Interpretation Centre.
At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, in the absence of doctors and pharmacists, each family of colonists probably had a medicine chest in order to look after its family unit. This type of chest could also have been used by doctors. Certain families even grew their own medicinal herbs. The largest were used on boats, and the Captain had the responsibility of filling it before departure. The medicine chest that appears in the exhibition came from the Thompson House in New Carlisle and dates from the 19th century. Until the middle of the 19th century, the presence of permanent doctors was cruelly missing in Gaspesia.
(Photo - Heritage New Carlisle)