Word: liniment
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...external use against muscle aches and the "rheumatiz," there were liniments galore. Merchant's Gargling Oil, not to be gargled, was one. Like Pratt's Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...Liniment & Snake Weed. He went to Arizona, then to Oklahoma and Kansas, where he had to beg for food. He tried being a cowboy in Wyoming, a homesteader in Nebraska, a farm hand in Missouri and a stock farmer in Texas-all attempts petered out. In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed. At 45 he bought a ranch in the Panhandle that quickly became part of the great Dust Bowl. Finally, in 1946 he turned...
Bill Bailey ought to know. Born in 1886, the son of a patent-medicine hawker, he learned song-and-dance routines to help sell the family product: Bailey's Gypsy Liniment. At 120-proof, the stuff worked like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill...
...week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn't win a hamburger with that kind...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...