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The Plague Is Back—Remember When Isaac Newton Thought You Could Cure It With Toad Vomit?
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: California has its first human plague case in five years, likely due to a flea bite during a camping trip. Isaac Newton once proposed bizarre plague ...
A portrait of scientist Isaac Newton, who developed a toad vomit–based cure for the bubonic plague Godfrey Kneller via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 If someone told you that Sir Isaac ...
Sir Isaac Newton — famous for developing the three laws of motion and advancing calculus — apparently had a far-out idea for how to treat the plague, also called the black death: toad-vomit lozenges.
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