Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis FOSC Families walking together in line

Families walking together in line

and they’re often driving the same type of vehicle

the model works well for display at home or in an office

Convenient carrying case with carabiner

southwestern cooking is really very simple

Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis FOSC Families walking together in lineFrom a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales. In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than raids. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD, and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were