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Sawbones: The Great Stink of 1858

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The Dangers of Bad Smells

People would pour like lime and carbolic acid into the water to try to just sort of cover it. Febreze is not exactly fair because it like bonds to the molecules or something. So anyway, they would do this to try to fix it. But obviously that's not like going to fix the problem. Even if you are hiding the smell momentarily, the waste is still in the river. And so this was bad for a couple of reasons. One is the obvious, it's grody. It's great. You don't want to smell that. The other is that many people, and this includes not just lay people, but doctors and people who would tell you, how does

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