Salisbury steak was originally invented as a medicine to stop soldiers from dying of disease during the Civil War. More soldiers were killed by sickness than by combat, with chronic diarrhea and dysentery being rampant killers. Dr. James Salisbury, a physician for the Union Army, believed he had the solution. He had a strange theory that vegetables and starchy foods produced poisons in the digestive system. His prescription was a diet of what he called "muscle pulp of beef," which was just lean

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