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Today domesticated animals like dogs get cancer about as frequently as humans do, and dogs can get diabetes and other "diseases of modernity" too. Were people in pre-industrial societies aware of cancer (etc.) in non-humans?

by /u/envatted_love in /r/AskHistorians

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