Cheap Butter and Europe's Hidden Tuberculosis Plague
Industrial Revolution

Cheap Butter and Europe's Hidden Tuberculosis Plague

A Dutch housewife's recipe for breakfast spread became the deadliest epidemic in European history, and nobody realized for two centuries.

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19th CenturyNetherlandsPublic HealthFood HistoryTuberculosisIndustrial RevolutionDomestic LifeDiseaseMargaretha De Wit

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