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Frontier Fever: The Silly, Superstitious-And Sometimes Sensible-Medicine of the Pioneers
Frontier Fever The Silly SuperstitiousAnd Sometimes SensibleMedicine of the Pioneers Author:Elizabeth Van Steenwyk A history of frontier medicine discusses the home remedies and healing beliefs of the Pilgrims through the settlers of the 1890s, revealing some of the more outlandish "cures" as well as the more effective ones.