Split-Brain Patients: The Chicken and Snow Shovel Test to Kim Peek
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The corpus callosum is a bundle of hundreds of millions of myelinated nerve fibers linking the b...
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Spaceflight's Toll on the Body: Boiling Saliva, Bone Loss and Molting Feet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1966 NASA engineer Jim LeBlanc was testing a prototype spacesuit in a vacuum chamber when his...
3 Okt 22min
René Laennec's Rolled Paper Tube: How Awkwardness Made the Stethoscope
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1816 at a Paris hospital, physician René Laennec was called to examine a young woman with the...
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Clark Stanley, Rattlesnake King: Snake Oil, Beef Tallow and a $20 Fine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The snake oil salesman is an icon of the Old West, but this episode traces the idea to 18th cent...
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Variolation: Onesimus in Boston, Johnny Notions and Snorted Smallpox Scabs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Long before vaccines, people protected themselves from smallpox, which killed about 30 percent o...
3 Okt 23min
Suspended Animation: Anna Bågenholm's 80 Minutes Under Ice and Cold Surgery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2020, scientists drilling about 230 feet beneath the seabed of the South Pacific gyre found m...
3 Okt 22min
Botulinum Toxin: Justinus Kerner's Sausage Poison to Oculinum and Botox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Botulinum toxin is described in this episode as the deadliest natural substance in chemical lite...
3 Okt 22min
TB Sanatoriums: Aalto's Paimio, Arizona Tent Cities and Soviet Worker Spas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before antibiotics, a tuberculosis diagnosis came with a prescription for months of rest, fresh ...
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