Sickness

Weaponized Witch Bottles

Fighting Witches & Demons with bottles and other things ever since the 1600s The year is 1644. You left your home in a bustling town in...

The Big Green Bottle, Full of Miracles & Tragedy

In the early 1880s, Jacob Welch had accomplished having the biggest furniture store in Lynn, Massachusetts, and he felt he could achieve...

Mercy Quimby & the Clairvoyant Physician

It happened one night about 35 years ago at an ephemera show in Boston, Massachusetts – a few minutes of my life that I haven’t...

A Big Story from a Small Bottle

Several years ago, I went to the illustrious Baltimore Bottle Show. Traveling from Texas to Maryland for a long weekend cost me several...

Curing the 'King's Evil' with and without a King

It could be ugly, painful, and embarrassing. The lymphnodes around the neck would become infected, causing swollen lumps that sometimes...