Internet search site Google honored Jamaican Mary Seacole with a commemorative doodle on October 14. 2016. Mary Seacole was a nurse known as “Mother Seacole” to the British Army. She learned herbal medicine from her mother, who knew the traditional remedies used in the Caribbean and Africa. In spite of the challenges Seacole faced as a mixed-race woman in the 1850s, she experimented with medicinal cures under the supervision of her mother at one of the best facilities in Kingston. She then moved to Gorgone where she operated a woman-only hotel before making the journey that would secure her place …read more
Source: Jamaicans.com
