Lotions, potions, and deadly elixirs
frontier medicine in America
by Wayne Bethard
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Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits- Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to popular medicinal forms during America's frontier era that were said to cure everything from fallen arches to a broken windmill. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available: barbed wire and horseshoe nails, cactus, pokeweed, buckeyes, you name it. Ironically, a lot of these homespun treatments actually worked. In Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the most popular medicines from the frontier days and how they were intended to work. -- Provided by publisher.
Gives an account of early-day medicines and medical practitioners during the past two to three centuries in America.
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Lotions, potions, and deadly elixirs: frontier medicine in the American West
2013, Roberts Rinehart Publishers
in English
- 1st pbk. ed.
1570984549 9781570984549
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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America
2004, Taylor Trade Publishing
in English
1461625742 9781461625742
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Lotions, potions, and deadly elixirs: frontier medicine in America
2004, Taylor Trade Pub.
in English
1570984328 9781570984327
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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America
July 25, 2004, Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Hardcover
in English
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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America
2004, Taylor Trade Publishing
in English
1299457916 9781299457911
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"A Roberts Rinehart book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
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