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Health and Healing

Of Maggots and Infection

By Robin Oliveira
During the war, the removal of the wounded from a battlefield involved not only the negotiation of a truce, but also tortuous rides in lumbering ambulances to makeshift hospitals in barns, commandeered houses and open fields. These trips were sometimes followed by a train ride in a cattle car to a nearby city, [...]

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Real Life Sleeping Beauty

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By Molly Caldwell Crosby
Sleeping Beauty falls into a deep slumber. Rip van Winkle awakens after twenty years to find life dramatically changed. What if they were more than tales inspired by colorful imaginations? What if sleep could be dangerous ¬ even deadly?
From 1916 through the 1920s, people around the world faced [...]

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