Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horse chestnuts or pieces of potato carried in the pocket, brass or copper rings on the fingers, or copper plates in the shoes to prevent rheumatism...
Peony roots to prevent epilepsy and convulsions...
...pretty stock certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some big bad men thought to worm their way into the companies he had formed and, rather than permit this attempt to divert benefits from the beloved peepul, honest old Sam spent their last nickel in an attempt to prevent it. Bunk! Your attempt to make a martyred hero out of this old fellow is nauseating. . . . You say that "in place of small local operating plants he built big utilities - and built them well, for they still stand, still make money." What of it? ... Did old Sam build these...
Asafetida suspended in a little sack from the neck to prevent acute infectious diseases like measles, diphtheria, whooping cough...
Necklaces of amber to prevent and cure goiter...