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Blue Mass

08-13-2001, 09:35 PM

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Blue Mass

A compound of Mercury and chalk commonly used as a medicine during the Civil War. It was a cure-all drug, supposedly curing thing from a toothace to constipation.

SOURCE- Civil War Cards, Copyright 1995 Atlas Editions, "Medications: Blue Mass and Quinine" by Stephen T. Foster.

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