Article 2: Seeking Yarrow;

Healing Wounds and Preventing Infection

Setting the Scene

As summer approached in 1673, Anne Brewster prepared for her second field trip from her home in upper-Cape, Sandwich town, and with an herbal simpling need to explore Harwich town… near the elbow of Cape Cod. This time, her goal was to find Yarrow, a plant renowned for its wound-healing properties. The settlers frequently faced injuries…