Wayne Bethard

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs (eBook, ePUB)

Frontier Medicine in the American West

• Format: ePub

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. An authoritative "Frontier Materia Medica" lists common drugs, the dates they were in use, customary doses, and idiosyncrasies. The author's outstanding collection of bottle labels, advertising art, and rare photographs of "medicine shows" rounds out this colorful survey of America's medicinal past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Roberts Rinehart
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461625742
• Artikelnr.: 38095253

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