The presenter will arrive dressed as an ei ghteenth-century surgeon\, from tri-corner hat to buckled shoes and tell e ntertaining and even gruesome stories of medicine during the past. Based o n New Jersey physicians&rsquo\; medical ledgers\, this program focuses on everything related to medicine in New Jersey during the Colonial period of American History\, including colds\, fevers\, epidemic diseases (smallpox ) and even major surgical operations. The surgeon comes prepared with repl ica medicines and museum quality reproductions of surgical instruments.
\nDouglas T. Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was the Curator and Deputy Director for the Naval Air Stat ion Wildwood Aviation Museum\, the Education Coordinator for the USS Const ellation Museum\, in Baltimore\, and has spent most of his career working as the Resource Interpretive Specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation. \; He has researched and present ed papers on at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council fo r Social Studies. \; The subjects he has presented has included child labor\, patent medicine\, and indigenous people. \; He was the Executi ve Producer of &ldquo\;Middlesex County History&rdquo\; a podcast series t hat focuses on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County . \; The first podcast season focused on the archaeology of Raritan La nding\, an 18th century community buried under a Middlesex County Park.&nb sp\;
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