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From monkey elixir to fentanyl: Tyler Skaggs's death is merely a chapter in baseball's 136-year drug fix

In 1889, pitcher Pud Galvin received Brown-Sequard animal-testicle injections and immediately produced a five-hit shutout, marking baseball's earliest documented chemical performance experiment.

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From monkey elixir to fentanyl: Tyler Skaggs's death is merely a chapter in baseball's 136-year drug fix

#19th-century-medicine
#19th-century-medicine