Back to III.2: Cowboy Medicine
Here are 17 photos of plants that could be used to cure 17 old-timey-sounding diseases. Simply find the names of each plant (perhaps using a tool like Google Lens) and the modern names for these diseases.
Matching the remedies (plants) to the modern maladies, notice that each pair have the same number of letters, and overlap at exactly one letter. For example, CHARLOCK and SHINGLES are both 8 letters long, and have H as their respective second letters.
| Plant | Old disease name | Modern disease name | Extracted letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARLOCK | Zona | SHINGLES | H |
| WINTERGREEN | Malta fever | BRUCELLOSIS | E |
| GUMTREE | Ague | MALARIA | R |
| CABBAGE | German measles | RUBELLA | B |
| BUTTONBUSH | Screws | RHEUMATISM | S |
| SNOWBUSH | Variola | SMALLPOX | S |
| ORANGE | Dropsy | OEDEMA | O |
| HAZELNUT | Mormal | GANGRENE | A |
| GINGKO | Apoplexy | STROKE | K |
| TURMERIC | Falling sickness | EPILEPSY | E |
| SABADILLA | Ablepsy | BLINDNESS | D |
| GERANIUM | Icterus | JAUNDICE | I |
| PIMENTA | Trismus | TETANUS | N |
| DEERBERRY | Grippe | INFLUENZA | E |
| TEASEL | Camp fever | TYPHUS | T |
| MOSS | Podagra | GOUT | O |
| MUSHROOM | Great pox | SYPHILIS | H |
The extracted (pun intended) letters gives the cluephrase HERBS SOAKED IN ETOH, referring to TINCTURES (or TINCTURE, also accepted), which are old-timey preparations of usually herbal-based medications where ethanol is the primary solvent.
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Guess log
| Guess | Frequency |
|---|---|
| TINCTURES | 22 |
| TINCTURE (accepted alternative) | 11 |
| BASIL | 3 |
| ABSINTHE | 2 |
| HERBSSOAKEDINETOH | 2 |
| SILYBUMMARIANUM | 2 |
| ALTERNATIVE | 1 |
| ASHWAGANDHA | 1 |
| ASPIRIN | 1 |
| BLACKLUNG | 1 |
| BLACKPLAGUE | 1 |
| BSOBT | 1 |
| DIGITALIS | 1 |
| ECHINACEA | 1 |
| EIGHT | 1 |
| GINSENG | 1 |
| HATEFULEIGHT | 1 |
| HEABTSOEORDIEETOH | 1 |
| HERBSOCIETY | 1 |
| HERBSSOAKEDINALCOHOL | 1 |
| HERBSSOAKEDINETHANOL | 1 |
| HERBSSOAKEDINETHO | 1 |
| HERBSSOAKEDINETOS | 1 |
| HIGHNOON | 1 |
| HOLYBASIL | 1 |
| IDENTICAL | 1 |
| JUMPERSKNEE | 1 |
| KUDZU | 1 |
| MILKTHISTLE | 1 |
| NATUROPATHY | 1 |
| OATSTRAW | 1 |
| PANADOL | 1 |
| PARACETAMOL | 1 |
| PLECTRANTHUSCANINUS | 1 |
| PLEURISY | 1 |
| PUCCINIA | 1 |
| PUCCINIACORONATA | 1 |
| RETICULOCYTE | 1 |
| SAMENUMBEROFLETTERS | 1 |
| SOMETHINGABOUTCOWBOYS | 1 |
| SOYBEAN | 1 |
| STJOHNSWORT | 1 |
| STMARYSTHISTLE | 1 |
| STOOLOCCULTBLOODTEST | 1 |
| THEHATEFULEIGHT | 1 |
| THEMAGNIFICENTEIGHT | 1 |
| THEMAGNIFICENTSEVEN | 1 |