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A Dose of History

Microdose #3: Sweet Clover and Rat Poison

Season 1, Ep. 3

In this Microdose Isobel explores the history of a therapeutic drug originally utilised as a rat poison, which was poisoning cattle across the United States in the early twentieth century.

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