FREEPORT

The Freeport Historical Society announces the second in its series of four public programs in support of the organization’s current exhibit.

“To Comfort, Heal, & Cure: A Survey of 18th c.–20th c. Medicine in Coastal Maine” continues through November at 45 Main St.

“Plants to Pharmaceuticals,” with Dr. Tom Feagin, is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22, at 1:30 p.m. at the Freeport Community Library Community Room. Tickets are $5. Light refreshments will be served.

Two hundred years ago there were no drugs. There were only plants and some minerals. No one knew how they worked or even if they worked and no one knew why anyone got sick.

Dr. Feagin will discuss the vast changes in understanding the causes and processes of disease and how this understanding has led to effective therapies.

Dr. Feagin received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He had a fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and received his certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine in geriatrics and by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Care. Dr. Feagin has held academic posts at Tulane, Louisiana State University and at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, among others.

Before retiring in 2004 he had a private practice focused on hospice and palliative care in Memphis from 1998-2004 and he was in practice at Darlington, Mohlar & Feagin, in Augusta, from 1971-81, among others. He served as attending staff at Augusta General Hospital, 1991-81, and went on to serve as the chairman of the Department of Medicine, from 1977-81.

Dr. Feagin was a Fellow at the American College of Physicians, nominated to Pi Kappa Phi at the University of Mississippi and was awarded the Taylor Medal in German at the University of Mississippi. He has also written and lectured extensively.

He continues in his role as educator on a variety of nonmedical topics at the University of Maine, Augusta Senior College.

For more information, call Freeport Historical Society at 865-3170 or visit www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org or the Facebook page.