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Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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A Memoir of a Paralyzed Stroke

In september of 19 32, mary was 63, and she suffered a paralyzing stroke. One of the scientists noticed that mary was late for work and went looking for her up in the cottage. And oh my, when that person opened the door, what to her wondering eyes should appear a the hygiene, let's say, was way, way down. We would call it a hoarder's house now. There was mary lying on the filthy floor of a house full of junk and wreckage everywhere,. It smelled like a garbage tump. No one had been in there in decades. no one had seen it, and the way that she was living.

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