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so they were as mad upon their running after quacks and mountebanks, and every practising old woman, for medicines and remedies; storing themselves with such multitudes of pills, potions, and preservatives, as they were called, that they not only spent their money but even poisoned themselves beforehand for fear of the poison of the infection; and prepared their bodies for the plague, instead of preserving them against it.
Charles Sheard
Just like the Arizona man who died taking what President Trum was pushing
A Journal of the Plague Year, Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London
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