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Dr. Michael E. Bell | Micro-Biotic Adversaries, Paranormal Folklore, and New England Vampires

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

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Consumption and the Diseases of the World

People didn't understand the germ theory, or at least that in terms of consumption until late in the 1800s. The 1882 was when Edward Coeft, a German medical doctor and scientist, announced his discovery of the backstellus,. So until then, it was a total mystery. People were not willing to accept their sentence. And I think that's true today, too, we have a disease that we don't understand that we can't do it, that we try to cope with.

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