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Letter: Letters: Damn good soap

Published 28 November 1992

From ZULA NITTIM

You describe a Chinese anti-malarial medicine artemisin as having been
known and used in China for the last two thousand years. The heading above
this states: ‘The drug that nobody knew about’.

Does your headline writer know something new about the mathematical
definition of zero, or is the description of the most populous national
on earth as ‘nobody’ a new form of prose licence?

Zula Nittim North Sydney, NSW Australia

Issue no. 1849 published 28 November 1992

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