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Dedication Disclaimer Acknowledgement Foreword Introduction Part I - Frontier Dosage Forms The Wets The Mineral Acids The Vegetable Acids Tars, Paints, Swabs, and Other Disgusting Taints Astringents, Expectorants, Tinctures & Fluidextracts, Bitters, Blisters, Tonics, Waters, and Wines Medicinal Waters and Wines Lotions and Emulsions Pastes, Ointments, Poultices, Plasters, Oils, Liniments, Fats, Salves and Rubs The Drys Medicinal Folded 'Powders' Pills Cachets Solid and Semi-solid Extracts Effervescents Sprinkle Powders, Sugartits, Talcs and Insufflates Lozenges, Troches and Pastilles Suppositories Part II -- Treatments The Good, the Sad, and the Ungodly Frontier Viagra Mamoides' Aphorisms Miss Clare Sofie Herzog Bad Medicine An Uneasy Dose to Swallow Diathermy Have a Seat Ben Franklin's famous "Turpentine Pill." Awe Shucks Have a Real Drink, Son. A Bazaar Brassiere An Apron full of Gut Cuff's Bluff There's a Tear in My Beer Dear Rats! America's First 'Lady' Doctor Barefoot, and Pregnant---for a long long time. Wound Sucking On the Sly Saving Grace Give Me A Break A House of Pain The Hair Shirt. A True, Inside Glance at Indigestion. Bloodletting The Worms Crawl In.... Who's There? Water Cures Abraham's Blue Pills The Snake Oil Legacies The Perry Davis Pain-Killers Dear Lydia Part III -- Frontier and Pioneer Drug Monographs A Frontier Materia Medica By Wayne Bethard RPh. Aconite (1762-1960) Alum (1750-To Date) Angostura (1824 to date) Anise Oil (1500- to date) Apple Cider Vinegar (3000BC-To Date) Arsenic (3000BC to 1920) Asafetida (1753-1960) Aspirin (1897- to Date) Bamboo Barbwire and Horse Shoe Nails (1753-todate) Barley (1753-to date) Bat Crap (Guano) Belladonna (1504-to date) Beeswax (300 BC- to date) Benzoin (1300- to date) Bezoars Boneset (88BC-to date) Borax (10 AD- to date) Black Pepper (1753- to date) Buckeye (1753- to date) Buchu (1842-todate) Burdock (1753-to date) Calamine (1740-to date) Chamomile (1753- to date) Camphor (1753- to date) Carbolic Acid or Phenol (1867- to date) Cascara Sagrada (1894-to date) Castor Oil (1800 to date) Chalk (1753- to date) Charcoal (1753-to date) Chaulmoogra Oil (1826-1955) Chokeberry Chloral (1832- to date) Chloroform (1831-To Date) Cinnamon (78 BC- to date) Clove Oil (1753-to date) Coal Oil (Kerosene) (1753- to date) Cocoa Butter (1863- to date) Coca Cola (1886 to date) Cod Liver Oil (1851-to date) Columba (1753- to date) Copper (2600 B.C. to date) Corn Silk (1700-to date) Cotton Creosote (1842-to date) Cow's Milk Colostrum Cream of Tartar (1753-to date) Croton Oil (1753-1947) Dandelion (1753- to date) Deer Balls Deer Digitalis (1753- to date) Dirt Dogwood (1820-to date) Ephedrine (Adrenalin) (1898-To Date) Epsom Salt (1753- to date) Ether (1275-To Date) Ergot (1820-1947) Eucalyptus (1852-to date) Fennel (1820-1960) Figs (1820-1936) Flax Seed (2300 B.C. to date) Garlic (1820-1936) Gentian Violet (1856 to date) Gentian Root (USP 1820-to date) Ginger (1100 A.D. to date) Gold (1595-to date) Goldenrod and Jimson Weed Hog Lard (1753-1960) Honeysuckle Horsetail Ichthammol Iodine Ipecac (1601- to date) Jalap (1753- to date) Juniper Tar (1753-1955) Kudzu Licorice-glycyrrhiza (400 BC- to date) Manure Mayapple (1820-to date) Mercury (3000BC-to date) Mesquite Milk Milk Thistle Nutgall (450 B.C. to 1955) Nux Vomica (1640-1989) Oak Bark (1753- to date) Olive Oil (1753- to date) Onion (1753- to date) Opium, Laudanum, Morphine and Codeine Peppermint (400 BC to date) Persimmon Peruvian Bark (1753-1955) Pink Root (1820-1926) Pine (1753- to date) Pond Lilly Pomegranate (1753-1936) Pokeweed (1820-1947) Potash Prickly Pear Cactus Rock Candy Sage (1753-1950) Sarsaparilla (1500 to date) Sassafras (1512- to date) Senna (400 BC to date) Slippery Elm (1753- to date) Snakeroot- (1753- to date) Stinging Nettle (1753- to date) Sulfur (1753- to date) Tickle Tongue (1820 to date) Tolu (1574 to date) Tulip Tree (1820-1882) Turpentine (1753-1968) Unicorn Horn (no dates, sorry) Urea Uva Ursi (1753- to date) Valerian (1753- to date) Witch Hazel Yucca References Parting Doses Part IV--Old and near forgotten Medical Terms Frontier Medical Dates and Other 'worthy of note' Facts Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Medicine United States History 18th century, Medicine United States History 19th century, Pharmacology United States History 18th century, Pharmacology United States History 19th century