Lotions, potions, and deadly elixirs

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.

subjects: Pharmacology,  Medicinal plants,  Drugs, Non-Prescription,  History, 19th Century,  Medicine,  Materia medica,  History,  Medicine, united states,  Medicine, history,  Pharmacology, history,  Nonprescription Drugs

Places: United States

Times: 18th century,  19th century