Sometimes barely sheltered from the elements, these poor souls would huddle in these rooms and eat spoiled meat that they would pay perhaps two or three cents for. Most of these cellars, which were in truth no more than cellars, were most times situated in buildings that were within a stone's throw of buildings that housed dozens

, and sometimes hundreds of pigs. Naturally this was not the healthiest of places to live.

Doctors of the time were anything but successful in their treatment of cholera, which was the foremost killer of the time. The treatments prescribed by the doctors were as varied and ridiculous as the doctors themselves. The staple treatments of the time were bleeding the patient, which is draining them of a quantity of blood, and calomel. But several inane treatments sprung up left and right in the scramble to subdue the disease. Some physicians swore by electric shock treatment, sulfur pills, tobacco-smoke enemas, strychnine, aconite, or morphine. One doctor even immersed his comatose victims in tubs of ice water.

Needless to say that much progress has been made in

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Randall's Island, Proliferation Disease, sometimes hundreds, bleeding patient,
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