From the murky depths of the English language, Jeffrey Kacirk has amassed yet another storehouse
of linguistic treasures. Drawing on centuries of commentary, folklore, and literature, Kacirk unearths
forty-eight definitions of once-popular tonics, purgatives, cordials, restoratives, gargles, medicinals,
analgesics, and recreational toxins. When you've learned from these cards what people used to drink,
wear on their heads, or stick up their noses, you'll understand why European history has unfolded in
such a peculiar fashion.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, these Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed
information--all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards. Tastefully illustrated, the cards present
a word on one side and its definition, quoted from a host of archaic references, on the other.