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

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

CHAPTER

Do You Have Tuberculosis?

In the 1800s and before, medical doctors were of the gay illness tradition. They would look for tumors in your body being unbalanced. To balance these tumors, what they would do is make you throw up or give you something that would be a diuretic. Or they would open a vein and bleed you. So think about that. You're sick and you're losing blood as it is, so you go to a doctor and he starts bleeding you.

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