Today, we visited the St. Louis cathedral, the Old Ursuline Convent, and the pharmacy museum. I found that the pharmacy tour very interesting, and a little bazar. I was surprised to learn that leeches are used on wounds to improve circulation to the affected area and speed up the healing process, I have never heard of that before. Something else I found interesting during the tour was about how some drugs were used during the time. They seemed to just use anything despite not knowing wither it would actually help or not. Many times what people took was either the wrong thing, highly additive, or deadly. At the time it sounded normal for people to use the "treatments" they did, but now they should insane. Something else I thought was interesting about the pharmacy and "medications" they gave out at the time was about how they bottle the substances. Poison was put in blue bottles, with rough sides so people would know that it was poison. New Orleans was the first place to do this. Also, they had love potions that had names but they did not call them by their actual names, they called them by numbers so they would not have to say them. Overall, I found the pharmacy museum interesting because the guide also was hilarious and presented the information in a way that made it very exciting and entertaining to listen too. He did a great job explaining what he thought would be most interesting, what has changed the most compared to modern day medicine, and then mentioned how truly strange their medical system was at the time.
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