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Family History Charts

by Sharon Hall | Oct 3, 2019 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Home Remedies and Quack Cures, Services

One of my favorite services is creating custom-designed family history charts.  It’s a great way to display your family history!  I’ve recently added a link on the Services page so that it’s easier to view samples of charts I’ve done for...
Home Remedies and Quack Cures (and a “Royal Touch”):  Curing Consumption

Home Remedies and Quack Cures (and a “Royal Touch”): Curing Consumption

by Sharon Hall | Dec 7, 2013 | Home Remedies and Quack Cures

It’s known by various names – most commonly tuberculosis, but at times throughout history referred to as:   “consumption” because the patient experienced severe weight loss and was almost literally “consumed” with the disease; phthisis (derived from Latin-Greek...
Home Remedies and Quack Cures:  Sobering Up – Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific

Home Remedies and Quack Cures: Sobering Up – Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific

by Sharon Hall | Nov 23, 2013 | Home Remedies and Quack Cures

Before it became illegal to lie on the package label, this “cure” for alcoholism was called “Golden Specific” – later changed to “Golden Treatment” when the law went into effect.  Dr. James Wilkins Haines of Cincinnati, Ohio claimed his medicine was endorsed by the...
Home Remedies and Quack Cures:  Hall’s Catarrh Cure

Home Remedies and Quack Cures: Hall’s Catarrh Cure

by Sharon Hall | Nov 16, 2013 | Home Remedies and Quack Cures

I’ve recently been performing a lot of historical and ancestral research by combing through digitized newspapers.  Inevitably, in the newspapers of the mid-1800’s until the early 1930’s, I am reading advertisements extolling the benefits of so-called...

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