# Event Details

- **Event Name**: SOLD OUT - The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 01:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for our next public lecture on February 15th!

We’ll be hosting local expert Diane Whitcomb, who’ll be presenting “The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s.”

Travel back in time for a discussion about 1800’s medical care, treatments and medications such as bloodletting, leeches, laudanum, and asthma cigarettes.  See how pills were made on an antique pill roller. Learn about illnesses once prevalent in the Lancaster and Philadelphia areas such as diphtheria, smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough. Discover the medications and herbs used then that might be similar to the medications in your home medicine chest. 
The event will begin at 1:30pm at the Lititz Public Library. 

Admission is free, but registration is required. 

Signups begin Saturday, February 1st at 9am. Beginning at that day and time, contact the library at 717-626-2255 to register. You may also register via this link: https://calendar.lancasterlibraries.org/event/lititz-historical-foundation-74715
We hope to see you there!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lititz/sold-out-the-healing-the-harmful-and-the-quackery-medicine-in-the-1800’s/200027629922628
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 450

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lititz
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lititz Public Library
- **lat**: 40.14705
- **long**: -76.29419
- **full address**: Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Rd,Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is SOLD OUT - The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s being held?
  - **A:** SOLD OUT - The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s takes place on Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 01:30 pm to Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 01:30 pm at Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Rd,Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing SOLD OUT - The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s?
  - **A:** SOLD OUT - The healing, the harmful, and the quackery: Medicine in the 1800’s is organized by Lititz Historical Foundation.

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