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Tongue depressors were once reused between patients
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The wooden stick that gets uncomfortably shoved to the back of your throat used to be a prized, permanent tool. In the nineteenth century, practitioners wielded heavy metal or glass depressors that they would quickly rinse off before moving on to the next coughing patient. Switching to cheap, disposable wood was a massive victory for basic sanitation and a terrible defeat for fancy metalwork.
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