This is the mother of the first 5 Rachal children. She was married to Francois Xavier Rachal and they had 14 children, 11 of who lived into adulthood. One of her sons, against all odds, became a prominent physician in New Jersey, and later on in, in California.
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at Cane River in Natchitoches, Louisiana USA
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...