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Aug 2023
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DANK OFF: Medical Marvels Of The 19th Ce...

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Medical treatment before many of the inventions/theories/methods covered in this episode would have been brutal to say the least. Which of these advances in medicine had the longest lasting impact on humanity? 

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Sources: Historyextra.com ‘Victorian Medicine: Why the 19th Century was a Time of Seismic Medical Change’ by Charlotte Hodgman 2022, Interestingengineering.com, Nobelprize.org, Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ‘Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination’ by Stephan Riedal 2005, Nationalgeographic.org

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