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Diabetes diagnosis before modern labs was considerably more hands-on than advertised. Before glucose meters and lab strips, sweetness was diagnostically useful information. And that required taste testing.
A tick bite can train the immune system to attack a sugar found in mammalian meat, causing hives, stomach distress, or even anaphylaxis hours after dinner.
Neglected bacterial cultures become an unexpected breeding ground for one of medicine’s most important discoveries. Click through for the accidental discovery that changed modern medicine.