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when the desperate attempt was made to stop Asiatic cholera
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with measures that had worked against plague,
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but turned out to be entirely counter-productive.
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And we'll see it again in the early years
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of the AIDS pandemic,
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and in that case too with haunting consequences.
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So, now you know where we'll begin:
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on Wednesday with medical science,
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in its first but long-lasting embodiment,
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and the way that Europeans experienced plague,
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through the lens of humoral theory.
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And then next week we'll deal with