What is patent medicine? Alden’s Catarrh Cure to be placed on all packaged medications. When the Civil War began, Clara Barton was working at the patents office in Washington.
She had formerly been a schoolteacher, and mothers of former pupis of hers began to send parcels to her to be forwarded to their sons. The amount of THC in the hemp growing on hemp farms would not get a bug high. However Hashish use seems to have been in some vogue in cultured circles.
I have been writing historical pieces for magazines and newspapers for about years. Two-thirds of the soldiers who died during the Civil War perished due to disease, not battle wounds. All of these diseases needed treatment or cures, and producers of patent medicines stepped in to provide solutions.
The Civil War meant a boom in business for doctors and quacks alike. Here is a look at another wartime almanac in my collection. Though marketed as a remedy for everyone, it was also specifically advertised for children, and claimed to cure several dangerous afflictions such as whooping cough , tuberculosis , and influenza, as well as asthma and general colds and coughs. Generally, Civil War doctors underwent two years of medical school, though some pursued more education.