Coming next: The Five-Year Test
Allen and Leslie Nelson will be back, starting with their backstory.
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Notes from the case file
History, medicine and Naples behind The Italian Test.
Scrubbing in, Neapolitan style
Chilled sterile water poured over the hands, coffee before the first case, and an operating room called "the theater".
Read moreA pharmacy in the mountains
High above Avellino, the monks of the Abbey of Loreto once made medicines from plants and minerals.
Read moreThe blood of San Gennaro
Three times a year, towns around the Bay of Naples wait for news from two sealed vials.
Read moreWhy food poisoning doesn’t cause clots
Contaminated food brings nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps and fever. Heart attacks and strokes are a different story.
Read moreThe Anatomical Machines of the Sansevero Chapel
Two human skeletons wrapped in a complete network of arteries and veins sit behind glass under a chapel in Naples.
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