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Cancer of the Breast

Cholera Infantum

Diphtheria [1, 2]

La Grippe

Nervous Prostration from Hysteria

Neurasthenia

Puerperal Pelvic Cellulitis

SIDS & “Smothered” Infants in Slavery

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