Episode

They Made a Tonic

by Aaron Mahnke, Jeff Eckerle, Marilyn Osborn, Glen Morgan, Tyler Hisel and 3 others

Before we knew how disease spread, medicine was as much superstition as it was science. And in the small New England towns of the 1800s, there is a belief that consumption can only be stopped by making sure the dead are actually dead.

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