Word: rheum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America, as told by Historian Gerald Carson in One for a Man, Two for a Horse, published last week (Doubleday...