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President James A. Garfield easily survived being shot in the back by a delusional assassin in 1881, but he was subsequently murdered by his own extremely…
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Ancient anatomy was basically guesswork. To cure blindness, they squashed a pig's eye and poured the gooey remains directly into the patient's ear, expecting…
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What absurd, highly-respected medical treatment directly caused the sudden death of America's first president, George Washington?
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Eating absolutely massive quantities of incredibly rich red meat has a very aggressive physical toll. Known strictly as the 'disease of kings', gout violently…
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Working incredibly closely to loudly blasting brass horns takes a massive toll on delicate human eardrums. Surrounded entirely by aggressively booming…
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Surviving the sixteenth century was hard enough without rapidly fatal perspiration. Multiple terrifying outbreaks of a completely unidentified disease swept…
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