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Word: prolapsus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lydia Pinkham's New Dress | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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