Amazing day at Coors Field watching the Rockies. A walk-off Home Run in the bottom of the 9th. Doesn't get better than that unless you are with your family watching it.  

I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable ~ Jane Austen

Nature in Colorado

There is nothing better than getting away and going up to the mountains to get rejuvenated. The sounds of the river and the light breezes seem to put everything back in perspective again. To dip your toes in the freezing water and watch butterflies fly all around you. To let nature unfold around you and know you are a part of this creation

Red Geraniums

Red Geraniums – are said to represent hope and friendship

Red Roses

Red Roses are typically thought of as symbolizing romance or passionate love, but they also represent sacrifice or memorial.

My Summer Flowers

In writing there are so many articles, places or things that can be  symbolic of what is happening or what is going to happen.

I researched what flowers might symbolize or foretell.

Pink Geraniums –  gentility,  determination

Physicians, Apothecaries or Surgeons

Who would be called to your home if you were sick and living during the Regency era?

Most likely it would be a physician (doctor). But there have been references to apothecaries and surgeons. What distinguishes one from the other? I wondered that, too.

It seems to become a physician a gentleman had to be well-educated, studied Latin and had to pass a physician’s examination. Since the physician was a gentleman he did not use his hands. He was called to see only the wealthy people of England. To use one’s hands meant you were a laborer. Thereby, vicars, lawyers, military officers and physicians were gentlemen.  

An apothecary administered the physician’s instructions. He made the medicine and prepared the dosage. He put the leeches on the patient. The poor would visit an apothecary or have an apothecary come to their home. If servants in a wealthy home became ill, an apothecary might be called to examine the patient.

A surgeon had no education. He set bones, stitched up wounds, and removed appendages that were infected. He was a hand-on guy that did what needed to be done the best way he knew how. That’s why a surgeon by 1837 (After the Regency Period) got the nickname ‘Sawbones’.