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Show TODAY IN HfSTORY SLIGHTLY JAZZED I Hue and wormwood made up thci old-fashioned remedy for the Black Plague, once so popular In Europe' and now rather well confined to Mex-I ''" and i Lin ,. The rm- n nd v. orm- i H'OOd market in London was not mov-l in;; very rapidly In 1760, so, on July' 2: of that year, or 2C0 years ago to-! day, the druggists started a story that the plague had broken out in the city. The people rushed to buy preventive medicine and found an Increase of -10 per ci nt overnight. "it's the great and unusual demand that makes it cost more." said the druggist. It look all the power of the British government govern-ment to stop the rumor and the profiteering. profi-teering. How human nature has not changed: |