The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered The Adventure of the Speckled Band to be his best Holmes story, and Adam does too. Meant to be a companion to Episode 35 (Sherlock), this is the story in its entirety...
4 Juni 201851min
34 - The Physical
The physical exam has become a ritual of the modern doctor's appointment, with pokes, prods, and strange tools. How did this become a normal thing to do? In this episode, I'll discuss how the physical...
4 Maj 201833min
33 - Alexis and William
Alexis St. Martin and William Beaumont have one of the strangest relationships in the history of medicine -- a young French-Canadian fur trapper with a hole in his stomach from an errant shotgun blast...
4 Apr 201831min
32 - The Humors
The Four Humors are probably the longest-lasting idea in the history of medicine, even though they've been more or less completely abandoned for the past century or so. In this episode, we'll explore ...
3 Mars 201832min
31 - Malariotherapy
Malariotherapy -- infecting comatose syphilis patients with malaria to cure them of the disease -- was once the cutting edge of medicine, and earned its inventor Julius Wagner-Jauregg the Nobel Prize ...
2 Feb 201838min
30 - The Orphan Vaccine
Two hundred years ago, a few doctors, a matron, and 22 orphans set sail in a gutsy attempt to spread the new invention of vaccination across three continents in the world's first attempt to eliminate ...
5 Jan 201825min
29 - Curse of the Ninth
Did the famous composer Gustav Mahler work his fatal heart murmur into his final ninth symphony? To try and answer this question, I'm joined by Dr. Kevin Nordstrom of the Great Composers Podcast. We'l...
13 Dec 201726min
28 - Smallpox Blankets
The story of smallpox blankets offered as gifts to indigenous peoples as a weapon of war is ubiquitous -- but is it based in truth? And did our increased medical understanding of smallpox lead to its ...
9 Nov 201732min
