The Fasting Cure
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Linda Hazard: A Woman Who Persisted in a Time When Men Ruled Medicine
When Linda Hazard was young, a doctor told her father that his children were suffering from intestinal parasites. The doctor prescribed them what were called blue-mass pills. Nineteen-century recipes for these blue-Mass pills called for mercury, licorice root, and dead rose petals. Abraham Lincoln reportedly started taking blue- mass pills for melancholia after a breakup.
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