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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.

John Harland and Jim Firth talk to extraordinary people in order to unpack practical wisdom that can be used by the listener in everyday life.The expert guests impart useful advice, life hacks and life lessons to ensure the listener benefits from uncommon knowledge. The hosts go 'narrow and deep' on the specialist subjects of the guests to mine informational gold for the listener.The podcast style is relaxed, conversational and warm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.