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The Green Children of Woolpit

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The History of Green Sickness

The name green sickness or chlorosis, would not come along as a colloquial term for a few hundred yearsu but that doesn't mean people didn't turn green before then. Eventually, it would be, eventually tied really ly to like, young women and it. There were a lot of theories, like, it's because all your humors are like, stuck in your uterus, and they're making you sick. Wead there's a whole episode tof sawbones, if you're interested.

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