Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar titsâ€” 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.
Country USA
Brand Roberts Rinehart
Manufacturer Roberts Rinehart
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2013-01-16
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781570984549

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West