The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean· Staffel 10· Folge 8
Jake Leg Blues
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2025 · 20 min
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It was one the largest epidemics in American history: 30,000 people paralyzed over a few months in 1930. A dogged epidemiologist eventually traced the cause to adulterated bottles of an illegal liquor/medicine called “jake.” Yet the epidemic is almost completely forgotten. About the only place it survived was in blues songs...
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