{"id":10195,"date":"2019-06-24T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:48:25","slug":"evidence-of-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/evidence-of-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melinda Newman&#8217;s 1<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=422\">860-era estate inventory in Linn County, Iowa, indicated that she owned a galvanic battery at the time of her death<\/a>. These batteries were used as a &#8220;cure&#8221; for various medical ailments. It wasn&#8217;t an old battery that she used to run her buckboard wagon when the horse wasn&#8217;t feeling up to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, just based on her owning the battery, it&#8217;s difficult to say exactly what ailment she suffered from&#8211;particularly because various advertisements indicated that these batteries could be used to cure a variety of ailments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t use her ownership of the battery to state she had any particular illness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always worth taking care to not reach conclusions that are not supported by the evidence. What I know is that she owned a galvanic battery at the time of her death. I can learn about what these batteries are used for and include that information in my compilation of information on Melinda and in writing up what I have on her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just can&#8217;t say exactly what illness she used the battery for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Newman&#8217;s 1860-era estate inventory in Linn County, Iowa, indicated that she owned a galvanic battery at the time of her death. These batteries were used as a &#8220;cure&#8221; for various medical ailments. It wasn&#8217;t an old battery that she used to run her buckboard wagon when the horse wasn&#8217;t feeling up to it. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}