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Bedside Rounds

A tiny podcast about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. 

 

Mar 21, 2022

In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As fierce debates about this new disease, now called milk sickness, raged – was it from toxic swamp gasses? arsenic in the soil? infectious microorganisms? from the poor...