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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2985/6bc1fc02-7ed1-4938-bc17-0847557cbe2f_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Old Medicines Preserved in US Apothecary Museum' data-article-id='3528'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9333'>In earlier times, healers and health workers used strangely-named plants for medicinal purposes.</span> <span data-start-time='9333' data-end-time='21896'>Plants with names such as dragon’s blood, mandrake root and devil’s snare could be bought at a drugstore called an apothecary.</span> <span data-start-time='21896' data-end-time='34146'>Today, one of the best preserved apothecaries in the United States has been turned into a museum in Alexandria, Virginia.</span> <span data-start-time='34146' data-end-time='43813'>The museum provides interesting examples of medicines used before the development of modern drugs.</span> <span data-start-time='43813' data-end-time='55417'>The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary served customers for more than 140 years, from 1792 to 1933.</span> <span data-start-time='55417' data-end-time='62229'>When the business failed, the store and its contents were bought.</span> <span data-start-time='62229' data-end-time='68188'>It was redesigned to look as it had in the 18th century.</span> <span data-start-time='68188' data-end-time='74000'>In 1939, it reopened as a museum.</span> <span data-start-time='74000' data-end-time='78771'>Lauren Gleason supervises the museum.</span> <span data-start-time='78771' data-end-time='88604'>“A lot of the medicines that people would have been purchasing here were probably for minor ailments, rashes, skin conditions, the flu, a headache.”</span> <span data-start-time='88604' data-end-time='93208'>The apothecary has many thousands of objects.</span> <span data-start-time='93208' data-end-time='98708'>Some seem strange now, like the bloodletting tools.</span> <span data-start-time='98708' data-end-time='106583'>They were used to take blood from patients in hopes of removing their sickness as well.</span> <span data-start-time='106583' data-end-time='114979'>The treatment was often harmful, however, and ended in the late 19th century.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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