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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The German Chemist, Von Leibeg, Devoted His Career to Understanding Nutrition and Specifically Fighting Hunger

In 18 15, Mount tambor on the island called a sumbawa in what is now indanesia erupted sas this big volcano. It was the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history. A german chemist who had devoted his whole career to understanding nutrition and specifically fighting hunger discovered that you can fix cow's milk by adding cream, sugar and water. But it was very unscientific. And so analyzed the chemical composition, they could probably reverse engineer something approximating a recipe rite. Well, i guess o. So that fell to justus, von leibeg, who was the who was a german chemist Who spent years trying to find out how best to make cows

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