Setauket program shows how medicine was once practiced
The young girl was in poor health when she arrived at Dr. Samuel Thompson's house in Setauket.
Thompson's midwife apprentice, "Mary," examined the 10-year-old, noting "she gets bad fevers, coughs blood and she's tired a lot." Her diagnosis: "consumption." Mary told the patient Thompson would treat her with "cupping" - using a heated glass bell to raise blisters on the skin to remove poisons...
