Guiacum


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Gui´a`cum


n.1.Same as Guaiacum.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain.
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The first book examines the causes of the disease, the second its remedies, and the third a guiacum cure that leads to what appears to be the earliest poetic account of Columbus's voyages (syphilis was often thought to have been brought to Europe from the Americas in the Renaissance).
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