The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

When Mosquitos Cured Insanity

May 18, 2021

21:31

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How one doctor in the early 1900s risked the lives of patients by pitting one ancient scourge (malaria) against another (syphilis)—and won a Nobel Prize in the process...

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