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The Larry Meiller Show
Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 11:00am
By Judith Siers-Poisson

As the saying goes, sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. And when one takes a closer look at the history of medicine, that’s definitely the case.

Erika Janik is a historian and the author of several books, most recently, “Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of...

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