Medicine Show
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The Travelling Medicine Show
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Author : Jesse Wolf Hardin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11
The Travelling Medicine Show written by Jesse Wolf Hardin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with History categories.
The Traveling Medicine Show: Pitchmen & Plant Healers of Early America by Jesse Wolf Hardin Plant Healer Press Full color - 104 pages 8x11 - $24 Reasd the truth about the largely wonderful if oft maligned Traveling Medicine Show, the unfortunate shift from plant medicines to harmful pharmaceuticals, and the benefits and joys of resurgent herbalism in this modern age.... in a book as beautiful as it is fascinating, filled with over 500 lovely vintage and contemporary illustrations. "Step right up, and please loan me your ears," a spiel might begin. "It is I, a doctor to the common people, your maestro of popular music and entertainment, alchemist of wellbeing and conveyor of necessary remedies for a well balanced and fruitful life... asking each of you now: when it comes to health and healing, who could possibly know better than Mother Nature?" The silver tongued speaker might be alone, traveling only with a wide range of herbal products in his painted wagon, or else part of a troupe that not only shilled but entertained. What followed, might be a "scientific" or medical lecture, a magic act, musicians or comedians, providing not only bottled remedies but also a darn good time! Although exceedingly popular from the early 1800s until the 1930s, the Traveling Medicine Shows and other herbal sellers were often unfairly maligned in their times, and today are most likely to be trivialized. Read here the truth about these alternative healthcare providers and their plant medicine allies, from traveling herbalist showmen like Indian John and the Diamond King, to the once best known woman in America, Lydia Pinkham. A large number of such folks were not only medicine sellers but also medicine makers, gathering or growing the potent plants for tinctures, decoctions, and tonics that could effectively treat a large percentage of common illnesses and conditions. Then as now, herbal nostrums provided a reasonable alternative to seeing a costly licensed physician and to the all too frequently dangerous drugs that they prescribed, for a majority of common conditions. For the lovers of historic Americana, Steampunk sensibilities and wondrous curiosities, this book seeks to provide entertainment worthy of the early Traveling Medicine Shows themselves. And for anyone interested in herbalism, medicinal plants, personal health or the art of healing, it provides inspiration as well as information, feeding what is most certainly a new folk herbal resurgence. Table of Contents Forewords by Gene Fowler & Dara Saville Act I: On The Medicine Trail - Herbs & Entertainment for The Common Folk Act II: The Medicine Wagon Act III: Propaganda - The Reality of The Traveling Medicine Show Act IV: Jacob "Indian John" Derringer Act V: The Diamond King: J.I. Lighthall Act VI: John Halleck Center: Folk Herbalist Act VII: Lydia Pinkham - From Bathtub Herbs to Corporate Makeover Act VIII: Anything Modern - The Shift Towards Electric Wands & Miracle Drugs Act IX: Denigration & Legislation Act X: The Curtain Closes, & Opens Again - Transformation & The Beginnings of a Movement
The Indian Medicine Shows
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Author : Daniel David Moses
language : en
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Release Date : 1995
The Indian Medicine Shows written by Daniel David Moses and has been published by Exile Editions, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
"In these linked plays, Daniel David Moses, the prize-winning playwright and a "registered Indian," explores the "frontier" and discovers that the human face of the old West was more than cowboys and Indians"--Page 4 of cover.
The Medicine Show
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1980
The Medicine Show written by and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Health products categories.
The Medicine Show
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1974
The Medicine Show written by and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Health & Fitness categories.
Medicine Show
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Author : Jody Lynn Nye
language : en
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Release Date : 2016-11-23
Medicine Show written by Jody Lynn Nye and has been published by WordFire +ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-23 with Fiction categories.
It’s the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy–and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor’s Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine. She has a menagerie of very special assistants, including an Abyssinian cat, a dog, rabbits, mice, and an alien ottle named Chirwl. Now, this highly trained crew faces the ultimate medical mystery. On Chirwl’s home world, humans and ottles alike are aging at an alarming rate. And if Dr. Taylor doesn’t find a fast cure, the entire colony will die...of old age.
The Travis Traveling Medicine Show
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Author : Carlos M. Lago
language : en
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-01-10
The Travis Traveling Medicine Show written by Carlos M. Lago and has been published by BookLocker.com, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with Fiction categories.
This Novel tells about the practice of American medicine from colonial times through the 20th century, and its effects. Medicine was in its infancy. Epidemics of malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, and others, decimated the populace. Medications were few, and deadly elements like arsenic and opium were commonly used. Fortunately, Traveling Medicine Shows brought cures, and elixirs (magical or medicinal), plus entertainment, to the people living in small and large towns and cities. They relieved the boredom of open spaces and rural living; some of them brought musical entertainment. The Travis Traveling Medicine Show had a sterling reputation. It provided medications to the populace, and was ethical in not selling any medicine they thought would harm their customers. The main characters, Charles Reynolds and Carole Blanchard, live in Schenectady, New York. Charles studied to become an apothecary, and Carole became a singer and took voice lessons in famous musical conservatories. They were both hired by the Travis Traveling Medicine Emporium and performed as its top singers. It is possible that young apothecaries who frequented the Shows may have learned of the toxicity of certain patent medicines from customers of the Shows, and decided to look into the matter and if possible, eliminate them. The motivated young men and women employed in Patent Medicine Production and Marketing, sometimes found each other and fell in love. This is also their story.
Dr Potter S Medicine Show
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Author : Eric Scott Fischl
language : en
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
Release Date : 2017-02-07
Dr Potter S Medicine Show written by Eric Scott Fischl and has been published by Duncan Baird Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Fiction categories.
The year is 1878. Dr. Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now huckster and seller of snake-oil, travels the wet roads of the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, illusionists, fortunetellers, and musical whores. Under the quiet command of the mysterious, merciless, and murderous Lyman Rhoades, they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual ... although, for a few unfortunate customers, the Sagwa offers something much, much worse. For drunken dentist Josiah McDaniel, the Sagwa has taken everything from him; in the hired company of two accidental outlaws, the bickering brothers Solomon Parker and Agamemnon Rideout, he looks to revenge himself on the Elixir's creator: Dr. Morrison Hedwith, businessman, body-thief, and secret alchemist, a man who is running out of time.
Snake Oil Hustlers And Hambones
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Author : Ann Anderson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Snake Oil Hustlers And Hambones written by Ann Anderson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with History categories.
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage. This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.
The Medicine Show Murders
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Author : John A. Miller Jr
language : en
Publisher: Pima Books
Release Date : 2012-08-23
The Medicine Show Murders written by John A. Miller Jr and has been published by Pima Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-23 with Fiction categories.
A body falls off a train during a heavy downpour near Tucson, Arizona in late January of 1895. As the rain ends, the wagons of a traveling medicine show arrive in town with performers to entertain and a doctor of questionable credentials to peddle his wares. Pima Gallagher, a detective for the Southern Pacific Railroad, assisted, or at least she thinks so, by Scout Walker, his eleven-year-old stepdaughter, try to learn the identity of the corpse and whether its sudden appearance has anything to do with the nearly simultaneous arrival of Dr. Blenheim's show. Meanwhile, Pima's brother and sister, back in his home state of Mississippi, are causing him a great deal of concern with their letters about brother Jefferson's deteriorating health. Eventually things come to a satisfactory conclusion, but not before more murder and mayhem manage to put Pima and Scout in fear for their lives in the mountains and desert areas between Tucson and Phoenix.
The Medicine Show
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Author : Virginia G. Koste
language : en
Publisher: Anchorage Press (UK)
Release Date : 1983-10-01
The Medicine Show written by Virginia G. Koste and has been published by Anchorage Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-10-01 with categories.