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Word: cypripedium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Lore | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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