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(Continued from Page 1) we thought it was hard to keep a "bee hive" together.
The kids left the wiggery with ammunition against parental edicts for weekly shampoos when our guide announced that colonial ladies usually washed their hair only two or three times a year. Involuntarily, hands flew up to scratch as the girls imagined what heads felt like between bouts with soap and water.
We also learned the origin of the red pole with the ball on top that advertises a modern barber shop. Back in the good old days, the wig shop owner or barber conducted a little side business as a surgeon. In the 17th century, when blood letting was considered the cure-all for just about every ailment, barbers wrapped the bloody bandages from their work around a pole in front of the shop and set the copper bowl used to collect blood on top so folks would know where to find a good surgeon.
Sanitary regulations, thank goodness, forced the switch from bloody bandagesjotp symbolic red stripes. -1 -
In the apothecary-shop.Jthe smell of dried herbs used to combat diseases hung in the air as a jolly colonial druggist explained how his prototype amputated limbs with a saw, but without anesthetic or antibiotics. No wonder one-legged colonists were rare. Few survived the shock of those old fashioned operations.
Our druggist explained that patients were sometimes given a shot of whiskey to prepare them for surgery but more often than not, the booze only made the patients easier to hold down instead of leaving them unconscious.
He invited the kids to come back to see him if they took sick during their Williamsburg tour. Later, we had a few complaints about upset stomachs or headaches but no one suggested we make a return visit to the apothecary.
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