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Pox Stoppers
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May 16, 2013
Smallpox inoculations were used in India as early as 550 AD.
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For most of history, false teeth were a luxury afforded only by the wealthy. In the decade after 1815, implanted teeth recovered from dead soldiers on the battlefield were called “Waterloo teeth.”
Source: Terrors of the table by Walter Gratzer
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