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    ‘KARL WAS A PIONEERING MAN-MIDWIFE’

    Dec 15, 2020 2 minutes

    During 1836, a cholera epidemic spread quickly from Berlin towards the Prussian seaport of Ueckermünde. In an echo of modern times, a doctor called Karl Kannenberg insisted that patients displaying symptoms be placed under strict quarantine. As a result, casualty rates subsided in the town while the epidemic ravaged other communities.

    ‘Karl was a compassionate man who cared deeply about

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