Gunther von Hagens: How Plastination Turned Bodies Into Body Worlds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For thousands of years, efforts to stop decay produced brittle Egyptian mummies, specimens float...
3 Okt 20min
Bezoar Stones: Paré's Poisoned Cook, Caveat Emptor and Coca-Cola Cures
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The bezoar, from the Persian word for antidote, is a hardened mass of undigested hair and food f...
3 Okt 25min
Germ Theory vs Miasma: From Varro's Tiny Creatures to Pasteur's Swan Neck
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For most of history, the best trained doctors blamed disease on miasma, a word tracing back to t...
3 Okt 23min
Franz Mesmer: Animal Magnetism, the Baquet and Ben Franklin's Blind Tests
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Franz Anton Mesmer, born in 1734 near Lake Constance, studied medicine in Vienna and in 1766 wro...
3 Okt 23min
Foxglove to Digoxin: William Withering, Yellow Vision and Van Gogh's Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Foxglove, also known as dead man's bells and witch's glove, is a tall biennial whose tubular flo...
3 Okt 28min
Royal Flying Doctor Service: Pocket Knife Surgery to Pedal Radio Rescues
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1917 stockman Jimmy Darcy was badly injured on a remote station in Western Australia and carr...
3 Okt 20min
The Stapes: Your Smallest Bone, a Fish Gill Relic and a Renaissance Feud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The stapes, or stirrup, is two to three millimeters across and the last of the three middle ear ...
3 Okt 17min
Clair Patterson: Dating Earth at 4.55 Billion Years and Ending Leaded Gas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clair Patterson was born in 1922 in Iowa, finished high school at 16, studied chemistry at Grinn...
3 Okt 22min
