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Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
This Podcast Will Kill You
The History of Germ Theory
When germ theory was introduced in the mid second half of the 19th century and malaria was shown to be caused by a parasitic organism, people began looking more towards chemical compounds to the brain to treat diseases. Napthalene had been prescribed before as a quote unquote internal aniseptic. And so this is again, trying to treat the worms. This is where the germ theory thing becomes relevant. They're like, we're going to try to eliminate these worms. Okay. So then they found out that the pharmacist had not, in fact, given them napthalene. But rather something else entirely, a compound called acid analyte that had not been used in medicine before ever,.
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