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The Morning Call: Weekend entertainment highlights for Lehigh Valley: Apothecary tours, beer and wine fests, Capitol Steps

January 18th, 2018 |

It was a time when few physicians had medical degrees and we lacked antibiotics and sterilization procedures. You couldn’t count on pain-free surgery, and the average life expectancy was only 36.

The Moravians, however, had their own highly advanced medical approaches and at the center of it was an apothecary.

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