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Planar Protector
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Originally Posted by kjs86z
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https://youtu.be/cvDJNEcUxfs?t=280
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Selby_Jr.
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Selby Jr. dropped out of school at the age of 15, to work in the city docks, before becoming a merchant seaman in 1947.[1] That year, while at sea, Selby Jr. was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis ("TB") due to the cows on board, which had bovine tuberculosis; doctors predicted that he would live less than a year[citation needed].
He was taken off the ship in Bremen, Germany, and sent back to the United States. For the next three and a half years, Selby was in and out of the U.S. Public Health Hospital (part of a system of hospitals originally established to care for merchant seamen)[2] in New York for treatment. Antibiotics had not been available and TB was widespread.
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