Located at 859 County Line Road in Horsham, PA 19044

09Aug
2024
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Historic Records Donation

A descendent of the Penrose family recently donated a ledger book and a book containing copies of letters written by Charles Stedman (Dr. Graeme’s son-in-law), the road returns detailing the request Governor Keith made to have a new road surveyed out to his new buildings in Horsham, and a few other documents for consideration to […]

09Aug
2024
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“The Great Hurricane of 1752”

A ledger book was recently donated by a descendent of the Penrose family and contained copies of letters that Charles Stedman, who was Dr. Graeme’s son-in-law, wrote to various business contacts. Many of them from the fall of 1752 reference (see below) having heard “the melancholy news of great damages done….by the violent hurricane.” At least […]

06Apr
2024
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Elizabeth, Earthquakes, and Eclipses

With the recent earthquake experienced in the Philadelphia area and the upcoming solar eclipse, I bet you were wondering if Elizabeth Graeme experienced either of these events in her lifetime. No? That’s OK, I get paid to wonder about such things. And the answer is “Yes.” In fact, a very strong earthquake struck New York […]

10Oct
2020
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1793 or 2020?

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. (Attributed to Mark Twain) In the summer and fall of 1793 yellow fever gripped Philadelphia, the capital of the United States. Benjamin Rush, the most prominent doctor in Philadelphia, wrote to his wife Julia Stockton in Trenton on September 13, 1793. “My Dear Julia, Alive! And tho […]

27Jun
2020
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In Case of Fever

We have heard the word “fever” a lot this year because of the new virus in our midst, but fever itself is not a new phenomenon.  In colonial days there was no COVID-19 virus to cause fever but there were certainly plenty of fevers due to moderate illnesses such as common colds or more serious […]

11Apr
2020
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Dr. Graeme, Pest Houses, & Quarantine in Colonial Philadelphia

Quarantine, social distancing, and community spread are very much on our minds these days, but the concepts were not unknown to earlier doctors, including our own Dr. Graeme. Even though disease vectors were not always understood or accurately identified (bad air was often blamed), it was observed that those who avoided the sick escaped disease. While […]

25Jan
2020
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Pennsylvania, A Holy Experiment

William Penn, a Quaker, was looking for a haven in the New World where he and other Quakers could practice their religion freely and without persecution. He asked King Charles II to grant him land in the territory between Lord Baltimore’s province of Maryland and the Duke of York’s province of New York in order […]

14Oct
2017
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Human Skeletons for Sale

In the age of enlightenment, people learned about anatomy from more than just books. The use of articulated skeletons dates back to at least 1543, and by the 18th century, there were purveyors of this somewhat gruesome commodity such as Nathaniel Longbottom, whose card appears at right. Medical schools flourished in Europe in the 18th […]

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