Word: herbalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbalist William H. Cruez of East St. Louis, Ill., who sold worthless concoctions to FDA inspectors posing as sufferers from arthritis, diabetes and swollen feet, was sentenced to a year in jail...
...Most celebrated was Su Tung Po (1036-1101), who was exiled for three years to Hainan. Poet, painter, engineer and herbalist, Su fought against the state socialism of Premier Wang An-shih, who favored government monopoly of retail and wholesale trade, government control of transport (horses) and credit (loans to farmers). After eight years, Wang's statism reduced China to economic and political chaos...