Word: schickert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made basically of potassium iodide, iodine and soft soap, and usually administered by doctors or midwives, is more effective, but vastly more dangerous. When the paste gets into the blood stream, as it often does, it quickly kills. Introduced to. the U.S. in 1931 by a German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths...
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