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The People Who Turned Burning Your Face Off Into A Healthcare Fad

Behind the Bastards

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Hellen Losen and the Black Salve

The story of hellen lossen who died horribly in australia due to a quack doctor. A natural medicine practitioner named dennis wane jensen convinced her that the surgery would do nothing to help her. He eventually had his patient apply black salve all over her stomach rotting the skin away and covering her belly, top part of her groin and what looked like third degree burns. It is impossible to say for sure if surgery would have saved helen's life but we can say to a point of certainty that black salve did not because of jensen's treatment she spent the last month of her life rotting away in unspeakable agony.

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