Word: vomica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Casework and his mind is irradiated with this: 'Familial societality is already a settled question biologically, structured in our inherited bodies and physiology, but the answer to those other questions are not yet safely and irrevocably anatomized.' Unless this is immediately thrown up like the nux vomica it is, it will contaminate everybody it touches, from pupil to public-in fact the whole blooming familial societality...
...half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles are now filled with one or another of the long line of new "wonder drugs": the sulfas, the antibiotics, the hormones...
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