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When paraffin was prescribed for deadly Spanish flu

Railway equipment being offloaded from freighters in Mombasa, 1895. [File, Standard]

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2019, panicked patients threw all manner of homemade remedies ranging from the comical to the macabre at it, and often with spectacular failure.

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