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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.
Contents
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