Travel back in time with presenter Douglas T. Aumack as he shares entertaining, informative, and gruesome stories about medicine of the past while dressed as an 18ᵗʰ-century surgeon.
The Medicine and Surgery of the American Revolution program will take place at the Main Library on Thursday, October 17 at 2:00 pm. Based on medical ledgers from New Jersey physicians, this program focuses on everything related to medicine, including colds, fevers, epidemic diseases (smallpox), and even major surgical operations, in the Garden State during the Colonial period of American history. Aumack will also have replica medications and museum-quality reproductions of surgical instruments on hand.
Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was curator and deputy director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum; education coordinator for the USS Constellation Museum in Baltimore; and has spent most of his career working as the resource interpretive specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation. |
