Out of the Viper’s Mouth
A Miraculous Bite to Cure the World’s Diseases. What’s New in Old News, no.4
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5 min readMay 2, 2024
It was a medicine that promised to cure the deadliest diseases of the day: scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid — even extreme insanity. A powerful nostrum, a superb tonic, a remedy for humanity’s ills.
