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Happy Saturday.

After this week's name drop of Max von Petkofer, today's Saturday classic is our episode on

him.

This originally came out March 23, 2020, and you can tell that at that time, like a lot of people, based on the information

we were getting, we didn't think the pandemic was going to last all that long, so that's a funny

surprise.

Yes, if you're thinking, oh, you sweet summer children, so is everyone.

We don't need to be reminded of that, but enjoy this episode.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry. And I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Hey, as we record this, we're in the middle of a pandemic. We sure are. This is the first time that we have recorded the podcast with everyone involved in their houses. Yeah, we are entirely remote this go-round.

This is our first of those, as Tracy just said.

So Tracy is usually at home, but today I am also at home.

And Casey, our amazing super producer, also at home.

So fingers crossed that our maiden voyage of doing it this way works out fine.

We do the test. It worked out fine.

But yeah, all of this that's going on, all of these changes to our day-to-day lives, however

temporary they may be, and the virus that has caused all of this, got me to thinking about

contagion and germ theory and the various points in history where people have been trying to figure out the science of disease.

And as I kind of snorffled around on the internet looking for things related to that, it led me to Max von Pettncouver.

And one of the things that I found in my research for this was a lecture by Yale professor Frank Snowden.

It's part of their open Yale courses.

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