Mithridates VI of Pontus: Poisoned by His Mother, Then Immune by Design
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mithridates VI grew up in the Hellenistic kingdom of Pontus on the Black Sea, where his father, ...
3 Okt 23min
Vivien Thomas: The Janitor-Paid Lab Genius Behind the Blue Baby Operation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Vivien Thomas was born in Louisiana in 1910, grew up in Nashville as the son of a master carpent...
3 Okt 22min
C-Section History: Caesar Myth, Banana Wine Surgery and Placenta Accreta
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The caesarean section is the most common abdominal surgery in the world, with roughly 23 million...
3 Okt 23min
Cryonics: Vitrification, Thawed Bodies and the Walt Disney Freezer Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Walt Disney is not frozen under a theme park; early cryonics figure Robert Nelson said he saw Di...
3 Okt 23min
Joseph Meister: Pasteur's First Rabies Patient and His 1940 Death
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1885, nine year old Joseph Meister was mauled by a rabid dog, which at the time meant near ce...
3 Okt 16min
Frederick Banting: Failed Speller, War Surgeon and the Insulin Nobel Split
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frederick Banting was born in 1891 on a farm near Alliston, Ontario, the youngest of five. Shy a...
3 Okt 23min
L'Inconnue de la Seine: The Drowned Face Behind the Resusci Anne Manikin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The most kissed face in history belongs to a woman no one could name. In the late 1880s an unide...
3 Okt 18min
Patent Medicines: Medicine Shows, Radithor and the Jake Leg Paralysis
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Coca-Cola, 7 Up and Luden's cough drops all descend from the patent medicine era. The term comes...
3 Okt 22min
