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Sawbones: The Great Stink of 1858

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The History of Diarrhea

London's first major cholera epidemic was in 1831 and over 6,000 people died. The problem back then is that we didn't have antibiotics to treat it. Most people still thought that all these people were getting cholera because they were smelling the river.

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