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Word: kushippu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Sumerian pharmacologist neglected to sign his work. It is also disappointing in another respect, the patient translators note: he failed to say what diseases his remedies were for. But along with such oddities as the ground-up skin of the kushippu bird, he also used salt and saltpeter, which had some value as antiseptics and astringents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kushumma & Kushippu | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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