Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they’ve suffered from. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary and led to historic medical breakthroughs. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop.
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