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Seen in FBDO
This book is best seen at approximately 00:07:02 in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as we see an overhead shot of Cameron in his bed. The book can be seen to the side of Cameron’s bed in the bottom left corner of the screen.
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It should be noted that this book is only seen in the full-screen and open matte versions of the film as the wide screen version cuts this portion of the shot.
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Description
Published in 1969 by Doubleday & Company, Potions, Remedies, & Old Wives Tales was written by W.W. Bauer, M.D. – a former director of Health Education and Editor of “Today’s Health” for the American Medical Association. The book is “an entertaining history of medical folklore that proves why Grandma’s prescriptions were often right.”
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Notes
The premise of this book falls right in line with Cameron’s doomsday mindset. With “surprising facts” on the back cover like the one suggesting that “if 13 people sit down together, one of them probably will be dead within a year,” Potions, Remedies & Old Wives Tales would have been the perfect book to feed Cameron’s constant worries and anxieties.
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