As one of science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s adages goes: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So if you happen to be the king of France in the 1700s and there’s a doctor waving around a magic wand and claiming to be able to pull a remedy for anything that ails you seemingly from thin air, who better to take a look than famed scientist and inventor Ben Franklin?

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