The basic idea: Mix a few dramatic ingredients like whiskey, red pepper and opium; stick a label on it; hawk it on streetcorners as a universal medicine; and leave town before the suckers can get wise. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1870s, 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1604d.swindlers-medicine-shows-388.html)