If you are taking any prescription medications, consult your doctor before using peppermint oil. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, peppermint oil can cause interactions with cyclosporine, medications for stomach acid and diabetes as well as blood pressure medications.
James Harrington after Sir Peter Lely, ca.1658, National Portrait Gallery, London. James Harrington (or Harington) (3 January 1611 â 11 September 1677) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism, best known for his controversial work, The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656).
Forten, James. September 2, 1766 March 15, 1842. The businessman and abolitionist James Forten was born free in Philadelphia in 1766. He attended a Quaker school headed by abolitionist Anthony Benezet. At the age of fourteen he went to sea and became a powder boy on the Royal Louis, a colonial privateer under the command of Captain Stephen Decatur, father of the nineteenth-century naval hero of the same name.