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| "Medicine Shows" were a not uncommon feature of American culture from around the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s, often associated (at least in our minds) with the "frontier": a travelling show with entertainment, song and dance, and a pitchman, a sales man, often posing as a Doctor or Professor - for example Prof. Marvel in the Wizard of Oz - selling "patent medicine": {hence sometimes refered to as Patent Medicine Shows}. | |||
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most famous of the patent medicines, wiki tells me, was the Kickapoo Indian
Medicine Company's "Sagwa" made, they claimed with ‘roots,
barks, twigs, leaves, seeds, and berries," and "most beneficial,
because they assist Nature in the right way to make her own cure."
(a rival company, though, claimed it was really
a mixture of stale beer and aloe.)
Buffalo Bill Cody is quoted as saying that, "Kickapoo Indian Sagwa is the only remedy the Indians ever use, and has been known to them for ages. An Indian would as soon be without his horse, gun or blanket as without Sagwa." |
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