All posts tagged "mercury"
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7.5K5New HampshireSamuel Thomson Ridicules Modern Medicine
If New Hampshire’s Samuel Thomson had been George Washington’s doctor, America’s first president might well have lived another 10 years. Calomel was...
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31.5K6Arts and LeisureSophia Peabody Gets Married In Spite of Herself
As Sophia Peabody approached her 30th year, she wrote a letter to her sister saying, “I never intend to have a husband.”...
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