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Part One: The Father of Gynecology

Behind the Bastards

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Speculum

In the 18 thirties, a plantation doctor in Alabama was experimenting on women with fistulas. He would use them as experimental test subjects and pay their owners to cover his taxes. This is part of why so little progress had been made on the problem.

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