The entertaining value aside, remedies are probably par for nineteenth-century culture, no more better or worse than pharmaceutical remedies that kill patients today.
Nothing has changed--a trip to any broad-minded California grocery will reveal a host of remedies, herbs, palliatives, and spiritual balms to ease the common cold, yet none are as funny as Twains'.
The entertaining value aside, remedies are probably par for nineteenth-century culture, no more better or worse than pharmaceutical remedies that kill patients today.
Nothing has changed--a trip to any broad-minded California grocery will reveal a host of remedies, herbs, palliatives, and spiritual balms to ease the common cold, yet none are as funny as Twains'.