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There were assaults on doctors.
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In some places crowds invaded hospitals and lazarettos.
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And the suspicions weren't all in one direction.
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The wealthy, at this time in the nineteenth century,
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had a fear of those they called the "dangerous classes,"
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and they were thinking of the dangerous classes as dangerous politically--
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this was the rebellious century--
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dangerous morally and in religious terms.
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But also they now seemed to be dangerous medically.
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And I think this is a factor in some of the extreme violence
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that one sees in 1848, for example, or in the Paris Commune.
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There was a strain on social relationships.