Shawn Minihan

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The extremely poor were forced to live in “cellar homes,” permanently shut off from sunlight. The rats gnawed at the faces and fingers of malnourished infants, many of whom died in these dark, fetid, and damp surroundings.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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