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

By Wayne Bethard

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570984549
• ISBN13: 9781570984549
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Rinehart Publishers, Roberts
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"