Lotions Potions and Deadly Elixirs

Powder papers booty balls and sugar tits— <I>Lotions Potions and Deadly Elixirs </I>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 <I>Lotions Potions and Deadly Elixirs</I> a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the most popular medicines from the frontier days and how they were intended to work.