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
A pharmacist by trade and author by design, Wayne Bethard is the truest of drugstore cowboys. For three years he served as contributing editor for The Texas Outdoors Journal and authored his own monthly section titled “At Full Draw.” He lives in Longview, Texas.
A fun read.
*Pharmacy Practice News*
This book is educational and entertaining, thanks to Bethard's
light-hearted touch.
*Wild West*
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the
American West provides a fine guide to frontier medicine and
practices and comes from a practicing pharmacist who considers
popular medicines of the times. It's of particular interest - and
recommendation - to readers of Western history who want a narrowed
focus on frontier day medicine. From strange uses of milk and
pepper to pill canisters and administration, this succeeds in being
a lively, fun read!
*Midwest Book Review*
This tongue-in-cheek account of early-day medicines and medical
practitioners makes for a fun read but also makes us glad for
modern-day medicine. In the old days, the treatment stood a good
chance of killing you before the ailment did.
*Elmer Keaton, voted All-Time Best Western Author by the Western
Writers of America*
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs should be of value to any
writer or researcher of the history of medicine or of the progress
of science in the past two to three centuries. Of special use to
fiction writers is a timeline of dates associated with major
discoveries in the arts and sciences. This book is the American
frontier.
*Don Coldsmith, columnist, novelist, lecturer*
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs deserves a prominent place in
the library of every historian, historical novelist, and anyone who
enjoys a good story.
*Henry Chappell, Author of The Callings and At Home on the Range
with a Texas Hunter*
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