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Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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How Many People You Killed Like That?

Mary mellon was quarantined on an island, north brother island, in the middle of the east river. Since 18 85, riverside hospital had been a state-of-the art quarantine hospital cases of tuberculosis and yellow fever were housed there. Mary didn't even want to give them a sample of her poo. She certainly isn't going to lay on a table, get knocked unconscious and give them an organ. And then, not reading the room, doctor sober asked for her help so he could write a book about her case. To which she wrote: ' clueless dingdon now she has my ticket to start em'

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