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Given the fundamentally flawed understanding of the origins of disease in the Middle ages, how did doctors and physicians gain credibility in their practises? What separated a good physician from a bad one?

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Were there any serial killers during medieval times who gained notoriety based on the way they killed, or left some kind of calling card on their victims?

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Do we know anything about the sniper who shot general Sedgwick during the battle of Spotsylvania?

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How would the physical trauma of a musket ball differ to that of a standard modern bullet, say a .308?

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Given the fundamentally flawed understanding of the origins of disease in the Middle ages, how did doctors and physicians gain credibility in their practises? What separated a good physician from a bad one?	420
Were there any serial killers during medieval times who gained notoriety based on the way they killed, or left some kind of calling card on their victims?	1
Do we know anything about the sniper who shot general Sedgwick during the battle of Spotsylvania?	1
How would the physical trauma of a musket ball differ to that of a standard modern bullet, say a .308?	1