Posted on 07/06/2022 2:25:40 AM PDT by Callahan
e year was 1748, the place was Philadelphia, and the book was The Instructor, a popular British manual for everything from arithmetic to letter-writing to caring for horses’ hooves. Benjamin Franklin had set himself to adapting it for the American colonies.
Though Franklin already had a long and successful career by this point, he needed to find a way to convince colonial book-buyers—who for the most part didn’t even formally study arithmetic—that his version of George Fisher’s textbook was worth the investment. Franklin made all sorts of changes throughout the book, from place names to inserting colonial histories, but he made one really big change: adding John Tennent’s The Poor Planter’s Physician to the end. Tennent was a Virginia doctor whose medical pamphlet had first appeared in 1734.* By appending it to The Instructor (replacing a treatise on farriery) Franklin hoped to distinguish the book from its London ancestor. Franklin advertised that his edition was “the whole better adapted to these American Colonies, than any other book of the like kind.” In the preface he goes on to specifically mention his swapping out of sections, insisting that “in the British Edition of this Book, there were many Things of little or no Use in these Parts of the World: In this Edition those Things are omitted, and in their Room many other Matters inserted, more immediately useful to us Americans.” One of those useful “Matters” was a how-to on at-home abortion, made available to anyone who wanted a book that could teach the ABCs and 123s.
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Looking at this, it has nothing to do with abortion but dealing with menstrual cramps.
Seriously?
You do not take opiates for abortion.
You take them for pain.
Oh gee, what kind of pain would could these unmarried women be experiencing that they would need opiates?
I will give you a hint.
It is something that means you are NOT pregnant.
I suspect he would have been the most pro-abortion Forefather, being the man-slut he was.
BS
What a discombobulated story.
I think Ben had an article in Poor Richard’s Almanack advocating for drag queen shows in preschools too. LOL
What’s it going to be Slate? Are the Founding Fathers out-of-touch, old, dead, rich white men whose opinions count for nothing? Or are they secret liberals who advocate for abortion?
They’ve already tried the “abortion recipe in the bible” angle.
There are things I liked about Franklin and things I didn’t.
I think John Adams well documented and public irritation with Franklin illustrated the political backstabbing of Franklin who was offended that Adams was pushing the French so insistently and hard, and he didn’t agree with that approach.
I agreed with Adams’ approach-men were dying at the time, and nice, leisurely dinners and discussions that fit the French sensibilities of were inappropriate.
Right next to to how to eliminate British tracking cookies from your browser
So American Leftists have discovered a reason to like one of our Founding Fathers. Whoop-de-do. Nice of them to recruit the great Ben Franklin in their push for abortion up to the moment of birth if not beyond. I guess Franklin’s statues are safe now. Babies aren’t but his statues are, such is the twisted Leftist logic.
Doesn’t matter, it will go into the liberal mythosphere and we’ll hear it forever.
I would disagree. “Progression of the courses” seems to apply to “Unmarried women” which...if it were menstrual cramps, would that not apply to all women?
“Send some Benjamins to DNC!”
It seems every culture in every corner of the world throughout history has had its little secret tricks to cause abortion or miscarriage.
Benjamin franklin says calls this recipe medicine for the “Supression of Courses”
Courses is absolutely a very old term for... menstruation
https://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com/2018/07/courses-terms-flows-menstruation-in.html
However the recipe does include pennyroyal tea, which is an abortificient
Some years ago I purchased a DVD with over a thousand distillations and POISONS you can make at home. Most of the stuff in it is from old, old books that this guy gathered together, all digitized. It’s really, really interesting and fun. Some of the poisons are sort of fanciful, the “hair of bat, eye of newt” sort of thing. Some of it is abortifacient-type stuff.
It also shows how to make all kinds of wine and distilled beverages. From the times when everybody could make his own hooch - and poison! The illustrations are awesome. It doesn’t mention Ben Frank-Loin, America’s prototype man-slut, one single time, however.
Ben Franklin is the best President this country has ever seen.
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