Events

Nov

5

Lecture

Putting Science to Work: Women Healers’ Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia with Susan H. Brandt

Location:

STEPS 101

November 5, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

In her mid-eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall was a widowed Philadelphia Quaker merchant who ran a dry goods business. She was also well known in her community as…

Nov

19

Lecture

Stewing Alive: Public Bathing, Mineral Spas, and the Curative Commons in the British Atlantic World with Amanda E. Herbert

Location:

STEPS 101

November 19, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Today we think of a spa visit as a luxury getaway, a chance to rest, relax, and indulge. But four hundred years ago, visiting the spa was something very different: uncomfortable, embarrassing, and even painful, a necessary medicine that offered the promise of a powerful cure,…

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Events

Nov

5

Putting Science to Work: Women Healers’ Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia with Susan H. Brandt

Nov

19

Stewing Alive: Public Bathing, Mineral Spas, and the Curative Commons in the British Atlantic World with Amanda E. Herbert