Hypothermia Stage by Stage: Paradoxical Undressing and Hide-and-Die
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Freezing to death is rarely the quiet drift into sleep shown in films. This episode follows the ...
3 Okt 22min
Beriberi and White Rice: Takaki's Navy Voyage and Eijkman's Chickens
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Beriberi, a name said to mean I cannot, I cannot in Sinhalese, is thiamine deficiency. With a ha...
3 Okt 22min
Insulin's Story: Cone Snail Venom, a Coin Toss in Toronto and E. coli
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The cone snail Conus geographus hunts by releasing a weaponized insulin that sends a fish's bloo...
3 Okt 22min
Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Commission and the Camp Lazear Mosquito Cabins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Walter Reed was born in 1851 in Gloucester, Virginia, the son of a traveling Methodist minister....
3 Okt 12min
Tuberculosis: Mammoth Cave Cure, Waxy Armor and Totally Drug-Resistant TB
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tuberculosis infected an estimated 10.7 million people in 2024 and killed 1.23 million, making i...
3 Okt 21min
Triage From the Edwin Smith Papyrus to Larrey's Flying Ambulances
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Triage comes from the French trier, to sort, a word once used for grading coffee beans and wool....
3 Okt 25min
Thomas Midgley Jr.: Leaded Gas, Freon and the Pulley Rig That Killed Him
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Midgley Jr., born in 1889 in Pennsylvania to a family of inventors, carried a periodic ta...
3 Okt 22min
Synesthesia: Red Letter A, Derek Tastes of Earwax and Bouba-Kiki
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Synesthesia, from the Greek for joined sensation, is an involuntary condition in which stimulati...
3 Okt 22min
