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Sawbones: Alkaline Water

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The Origins of the Germ Theory of Disease

Dr. Roberta Young believed in a 19th century concept called pleomorphism. This was prior to us learning the germ theory of disease and widely accepting it. He would do something called live blood analysis, which is not accepted by any laboratory medical organization. And he basically thought treating diseases like changing the water in a fish tank that was one of his great analogies.

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