William T.G. Morton: Ether Dome Triumph, the Letheon Patent and Ruin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before October 16, 1846, surgery meant being strapped to a table fully awake. This episode follo...
3 Okt 23min
Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscopes: Glowing Toe Bones and Irradiated Shoe Clerks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From the 1920s into the 1970s, shoe stores invited children to step onto a polished wooden cabin...
3 Okt 20min
Buried Alive: Essie Dunbar's Coffin, Felt-Lined Vaults and Vestal Virgins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive, was never just Victorian paranoia. This episode exp...
3 Okt 23min
Randy Gardner's 264 Hours Awake: Pinball, Paranoia and Late-Life Insomnia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1963 and January 1964 in San Diego, 17 year old Point Loma High student Randy Gardne...
3 Okt 19min
Albert Sabin's Sugar Cube Polio Vaccine and His Cold War Soviet Allies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Albert Sabin was born Abram Saperstein in 1906 in Bialystok, came to the United States in 1921, ...
3 Okt 24min
Martin Couney's Incubator Babies: Coney Island's Hidden Neonatal Ward
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For about 40 years, one of America's most advanced neonatal clinics sat on carnival midways. Inc...
3 Okt 18min
Human Genome Project: Celera's Race and a Buffalo Donor Called RP11
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Launched in 1990 by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health with par...
3 Okt 23min
Exploding Head Syndrome: Phantom Gunshots at the Edge of Sleep
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Exploding head syndrome is a parasomnia in which a person drifting off or waking up hears a deaf...
3 Okt 21min
