Potions or poisons / executive producers, Robb Weller, Gary H. Grossman ; producer/writer, Nancy Gimbrone ; produced by Weller/Grossman Productions for the History Channel.

In the late nineteenth century, costumed performers roamed rural America entertaining people and selling vast quatities of medicinal preparations. Usually neither beneficial nor healthy, their elixirs ofter contained opium, cocaine, mercury, and grain alcohol. In the late 19th century, costumed perf...

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