stackyFACTSWhen your doctor’s best medical advice is essentially 'pull my finger.' During the Black Death, physicians believed the disease was caused by bad air. Their genius solution? Storing their own flatulence in jars and taking a deep whiff to combat the plague vapors. Science!
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