His parents divorced when he was a child, and his father married actress and singer Shirley Jones in 1956. Jones and Cassidy went on to play mother and son on The Partridge Family, which debuted in the fall of 1970. Danny Bonaduce and Susan Dey were also key members of the cast.
Swedish Bitters is an elixir, made from the extracts of 11 herbs. Believers in the use of Swedish Bitters claim that it enhances one's health and well-being by improving the digestive system. Swedish Bitters was created in 1541 by Phillipus Paracelsus, a Swiss physician.
In the early publishings of Maria Trebens Book Apotheke Gottes she mentioned two recipes of the Schweden Bitter den kleinen und grossen Schwedenbitter, the small and the large Swedish bitters. There are quite a few differences, not only in the quantity of the ingredients but also what ingredients that were used.