@article{Post2010,
       author = "Post, Merry B.",
       title =  {{Medical Practice in the  Harvard Shaker Church Family 1834-1843}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/d37e0c24-5c63-41be-bcd9-dab90289f59d}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2010,
       month = oct,
       volumen = {4},
       number = {4},
       pages = {218--229},
}

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Date

October 2010

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2013-10-01

Description

The Church Family medical shop was in the center of the Shaker community in Harvard, Massachusetts. Located behind the brethren’s workshop, this small, two-story frame building stood conveniently close to the institutional kitchen for the Church Family as well as to the herb shop where medicinal herbs were processed. Though the building itself no longer stands, the history of the shop remains an important reflection of the core Shaker values of cooperation, charity, spirituality, and respect for the elderly.

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• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

4

Issue

4

First Page

218

Last Page

229

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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