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368: Cowboys Through and Through (w/ Roman Mars!)

Dear Hank & John

CHAPTER

The History of Human Responses to Tuberculosis

In 1881, this medical textbook was published that had a whole chapter on the so-called like a consumptive personality. Like what kinds of people were inevitably going to get consumption? And then literally the next year, Robert Koch was like, no, I'm pretty sure it's this bacteria. Yeah. There may be a simpler explanation than this like 1400 page theory of everything. Right. We think of ourselves as being artificial even though we are made out of earth and everything inside of us is earth. That's right. You know what your story and I don't know if you know this about me lately, but I like to relate everything to the history of human responses to tuberculosis.

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