Medicine and Surgery of the American Revolution.
The presenter will arrive dressed as an eighteenth-century surgeon, from tri-corner hat to buckled shoes and tell entertaining and even gruesome stories of medicine during the past. Based on New Jersey physicians’ medical ledgers, this program focuses on everything related to medicine in New Jersey during the Colonial period of American History, including colds, fevers, epidemic diseases (smallpox) and even major surgical operations. The surgeon comes prepared with replica medicines and museum quality reproductions of surgical instruments.
Douglas T. Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was the Curator and Deputy Director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, the 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. He has researched and presented papers on at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council for Social Studies. The subjects he has presented has included child labor, patent medicine, and indigenous people. He was the Executive Producer of “Middlesex County History” a podcast series that focuses on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County. The first podcast season focused on the archaeology of Raritan Landing, an 18th century community buried under a Middlesex County Park.
The Main Library on Plainfield Avenue next to the Edison Train Station. The library offers an extensive children’s room, a Meeting Room/Event Space, and a dedicated Maker Space.
