Hektoen International

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Tag: Lynn Veach Sadler

  • The divine leaf: physick and the cause for physick

    Lynn Veach Sadler Burlington, NC, United States   The photograph is of John White’s 1585 watercolor of a Secotan mother and child now in the British Library. Columbus is believed to have rebuked his crew for sharing the Indians’ “drinking” of the smoke of tobacco through toboca/tobaga pipes and chewing its dried leaves. He was among…

  • Beyond negativity

    Lynn SadlerPittsboro, North Carolina, United States My husband Emory and I have traveled to China five times since participating in the (Eisenhower) People to People’s Citizen Ambassador Program from May 21 through June 2, 1995. Then we were members of a “Biofeedback Delegation to the People’s Republic of China” and visited educational and medical facilities and tourist…

  • Baghdad Medical City

    Lynn Sadler Pittsboro, North Carolina, United States      Image of plaque owned by Armand Burgun and lent to Lynn Veach Sadler Can humans build and destroy simultaneously? Can they erect a gigantic, sprawling hospital complex as bombs drop, scud missiles home in, and anti-aircraft fire fills the air with flak? The Medical City of…