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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs Pdf

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs
Author: Wayne Bethard
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1570984328

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. Download Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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. An authoritative "Frontier Materia Medica" Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs medical books pdf for free. An authoritative "Frontier Materia Medica"



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