The Wandering Disciple

Here is a look inside the surgical suite at the Spanish Military Hospital Museum in the historic city of St Augustine. The museum provides a look into medical treatments and equipment from the Second Spanish Period which lasted from 1784-1821. The museum docent takes you through the hospital and explains the procedures that doctors performed on soldiers and also a look into apothecary treatments during this time period. While the procedures and care are barbaric by today's standards, these were top notch services during this period. (Photo: March 17, 2020)

Way before we had major pharmaceutical companies to mix up medicine to cure our ailments, the sick and injured required the needs of an apothecary to mix up a cure. A good example of this early art of medicine can be found at the Spanish Military Hospital Museum in St Augustine. Here you can see an 18th century apothecary and learn about how plants were used to help heal soldiers during the second Spanish occupancy of St Augustine. (Photo: March 17, 2020)