Lotions, potions, and deadly elixirs
Subtitle: frontier medicine in the American West
By: Wayne Bethard
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781570984549
Subjects: Medicine; Pharmacology; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Roberts Rinehart book."

Originally published: Lanham, MD : Taylor Trade, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Frontier Dosage Forms; title: Treatments: The Good, the Sad and the Ungodly; title: Frontier and Pioneer Drugs: A Folk Materia Medica; title: Frontier Medicate Dates and Other "Worthy of Note" Facts; title: Old and Near-Forgotten Medical Terms.