The Surgeon’s Tale:

A Story from Colonial North America (In The Year of Our Lord; 1705)

Introduction

Gather ye ‘round, good folk of my Simples & Worts Herbal Apothecary and Wellness Community, as I regale thee with a tale from the days of yore. In the year of our Lord 1705, in the colonial settlement of Sandwich, on Cape Cod and a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony… there lived a learned surgeon by the name of Doctor Jonathan Brewster. Es…