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Word: bloodroot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Enigma | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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