Asbestos: Khosrow's Fireproof Napkin, Kent Filters and Nellie Kershaw
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At a 7th century feast, Persian king Khosrow II tossed a stained napkin into the fire and pulled...
3 Okt 25min
Mercury Hatters: Erethism, the Danbury Shakes and a 1941 Wartime Ban
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mad as a hatter has a grim source: erethism, a neurological disorder caused by chronic mercury e...
3 Okt 24min
Henry Heimlich: The Flutter Valve, Abdominal Thrusts and Malaria Therapy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Heimlich was born in 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware, led the Cornell marching band as drum m...
3 Okt 19min
John Hunter: Charles Byrne's Stolen Skeleton and the Two-Door House
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Hunter's house on Leicester Square had two faces: aristocrats came through the front door t...
3 Okt 24min
Safety Coffins: Bell Strings, Sniffing Tubes and Graveyard Sausage Meals
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 18th and 19th centuries, fear of premature burial, known as taphophobia, gripped Europe a...
3 Okt 22min
Henry Dunant: From Solferino's Wounded to Bankrupt Red Cross Founder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Dunant was born in 1828 in Calvinist Geneva, helped found the local YMCA, left college ove...
3 Okt 21min
Leonid Rogozov: The 1961 Antarctic Surgeon Who Removed His Own Appendix
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Leonid Rogozov was born in 1934 in Dauria, a remote Siberian village near the borders of Mongoli...
3 Okt 20min
Theriac: Mithridates' Antidote, Roasted Viper Flesh and Hidden Opium
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For nearly 2,000 years the most prized medicine in the world was theriac, a dark red paste of 64...
3 Okt 21min
