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Invented by Bartolome de Medina, a Spanish trader, in Mexico in 1554, and used there until the end of the 19th century. The invention changed the course of economic history in all Hispanic America 40 percent of all the silver recorded to have been produced in the world before 1900 was extracted by this process. See also Cazo, Washoe. 

Around the turn of the century, New Orleans became the Marseilles of America, a cosmopolitan port filled with sailors, traders, gamblers, prostitutes, thieves, con men, and gangsters of every nationality. Although every major city in America had its red-light district, New Orleans s Storyville was the best known of all the nation s bawdy houses for not only were the customers entertained by exotic ladies of the night, they were also treated to the strains of a new kind of music called jazz, played exclusively in these whorehouses by black musicians. 

P. ipecacuanha occurs in the rainforests of Meso and South America. It was traditionally used in the Brazilian folk medicine. In the seventeenth century, the plant was brought by traders to France, and soon it found application in Europe as treatment against dysentery. The British physician Thomas Dover invented a special preparation P. ipecacuanha that was named Dover s powder after him. It consisted of Ipecacuanha root, opium, and potassium sulphate and was used as diaphoretic and medicine against cold and fever. 

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