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.
- ISBN10 1570984549
- ISBN13 9781570984549
- Publish Date 16 March 2013 (first published 17 May 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Roberts Rinehart Publishers
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English