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Word: snakeroot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Derived from the root of the snakeroot shrub, Rauwolfia serpentina, crude extracts of which have been used for 3,000 years by India's medicine men. The late Mohandas Gandhi took such an extract as a tranquilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pills for Mental Illness? | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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