A compelling, often hilarious, and occasionally horrifying exploration of how
modern medicine came to be!
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure
your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive
underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in your head to deal
with those pesky headaches? Probably not. But for thousands of years, people
have done things like this – and things that make radioactive underpants seem
downright sensible! In their hit podcast,Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy
breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. And some of
the terrifying detours along the way.
Every week, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin amaze, amuse, and gross
out (depending on the week) hundreds of thousands of avid listeners to their
podcast,Sawbones. Consistently rated a top podcast on iTunes, with over 15
million total downloads, this rollicking journey through thousands of years of
medical mishaps and miracles is not only hilarious but downright educational.
While you may never even consider applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once
the height of sophistication when it came to headache cures), you will almost
certainly face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life (were
looking at you, raw water!) and be better able to figure out if this is a
miracle cure (it's not) or a scam.
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