Wayne Bethard

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs

Frontier Medicine in the American West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Roberts Rinehart
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781570984549
• ISBN-10: 1570984549
• Artikelnr.: 35896336

Autorenporträt

By Wayne Bethard

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Henry Chappell Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Frontier
Dosage Forms Chapter 2: Treatments: The Good, the Sad, and the Ungodly
Chapter 3: Frontier and Pioneer Drugs: A Folk Materia Medica Frontier
Medical Dates and Other "Worth of Note" Facts Old and Near-Forgotten
Medical Terms References Index About the Author