Credit Due: An 1850 Apothecary Through One Year of Purchases
presented by Owen Ever
Wednesday | October 23, 2019
5:30 reception | 6 pm presentation
Beauregard-Keyes House | 1113 Chartres
Seating is limited
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These events are open to the public and will take place monthly on weekdays. Seating is first come, first serve at these lectures and will be capped after 75 guests. Suggested donation is $5.
Louis Dufilho, Jr – America’s first licensed pharmacist – offered a year’s credit to prominent French Quarter families. The 1850 ledger of transactions between Dufilho and the household of Jacque Telesphore Roman shows a year of camphor rubs, corset re-boning and intestinal worms. Whether the need was cosmetic or pharmacological, the apothecary served as a multi-faceted site for Creole consumption. And in the end, credit is due.
Owen Ever is a social historian, curator and docent at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum. As such, he is committed to storytelling and health-care justice. Recent collaborative exhibits include Position of Birth: Early Midwifery and Obstetrics and Bedside Manner: The Afflicted, the Indecent and the Indisposed. Recent speaking engagements include “Challenging Academic Debates: Situating Decolonial Science, Art and Faith in the Syllabus” at the University of Leeds and keynote lecturer at the 2019 Weinstein Memorial Banquet for the History of Medicine Society, Tulane School of Medicine. In partnership with Antenna Gallery he has recently hosted “ONUS: The Responsibility of Cultural History” at the Hermann-Grima Historic House and “HUES: Diversity and Inclusion in the Museum” at the African American Museum. He was a lead artist with Goat in the Road Productions and Friends of the Cabildo’s “Stranger Disease” at Madam John’s Legacy. He is currently contributing to a theatrical interpretation of the Gallier House. Ever is also a member of Louisiana History Alive, portraying America’s first licensed pharmacist.
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