By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist His name was Edward Teach. Or some say it was Edward Thatch. But he was known and feared as the pirate, Blackbeard. Born around 1680 in Bristol,
The notorious Blackbeard's sunken flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, offers more than just tales of piracy its treasures expose the desperate measures taken to maintain a crew's health in a perilous era.