Thanks for the added input on patent medicines.  I will check the archives
soon.
Allen
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Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Information on patent medicines


>In a message dated 6/6/2000 1:22:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>
><< Allen,
> Tantaquidgeon, Gladys 1972 Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related
> Algonkian Indians. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission
> Anthropological Papers #3 (33)
>
> poke root, mullein leaves, wild cherry and black cohosh barks for
> rheumatism.
> great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for lung
trouble
> great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for catarrh.
>
> I got this information from Moerman's American Indian Ethnobotany database
> on the Net. A very comprehensive and inclusive resource.
>
> John Dendy
> Archeologist
> Dynamac Corporation
> Fort Riley, KS
>  >>
>
>Allen--a point I meant to make but omitted, is that mullein is a species
>introduced by European settlers. Another name for it is "Englishman's Foot"
>which I believe is of Indian derivation. It is so called because it is a
>commensal species found on old house sites and fields. Again, not much help
>on the patent medicines, but didn't someone advertise an annotated
>bibliography of these a while back? Smoke Pfeiffer maybe? Should be on the
>histarch archives.
>
>Carl Steen