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The Mysterious Case of Drinking & Spontaneous Human Combustion

Incineration

How celebrities, dubious science, and teetotalers fostered fake news to advance the temperance movement.

Wayne Curtis
Wayne Curtis
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Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis

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