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Thread #14919 Message #131169
Posted By: Bruce O.
03-Nov-99 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: Streets of Laredo
Subject: RE: Streets of Laredo
OED (under 'mercurial') gives a quote from a work of 1716 on the use of 'mercurials' to treat the Great Pox (syphilis).