| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A Roberts Rinehart book." |
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Originally published: Lanham, MD : Taylor Trade, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontier Dosage Forms -- Treatments: The Good, the Sad and the Ungodly -- Frontier and Pioneer Drugs: A Folk Materia Medica -- Frontier Medicate Dates and Other "Worthy of Note" Facts -- Old and Near-Forgotten Medical Terms. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Gives an account of early-day medicines and medical practitioners during the past two to three centuries in America. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Pharmacology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Pharmacology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
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Pharmacology. (OCoLC)fst01060259
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781570984549 (pbk.) |
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1570984549 (pbk.) |
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