Lead Poisoning: Roman Sapa, Midgley's Leaded Gas and Turmeric Adulteration
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lead may sit in modern bodies at levels up to a hundred times higher than in pre industrial peop...
3 Okt 23min
Laudanum's Long Run: Paracelsus' Secret Pill to Deadly Pharmacy Mix-Ups
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Laudanum is a tincture of about 10 percent powdered opium, roughly 1 percent morphine, dissolved...
3 Okt 26min
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Ottoman Engrafting, Newgate Trials and Pope
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a seven year old, Lady Mary had her name engraved on the drinking glasses of London's Kit Kat...
3 Okt 19min
The Royal Touch for Scrofula: Angel Coins, Henry IV and Charles II's 92,000
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For centuries the kings and queens of England and France claimed they could cure the King's Evil...
3 Okt 21min
Karl Landsteiner: Discovering ABO Blood Types, Polio and the Rh Factor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 19th century, a blood transfusion could save a patient or make the blood clump, the ...
3 Okt 22min
Sokushinbutsu: Japan's Self-Mummified Monks and the 3,000-Day Tree Diet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Egyptian mummies were made by embalmers after death, but in Japan some Buddhist monks prepared t...
3 Okt 25min
Howard Florey and Penicillin: Bedpan Cultures, a Constable and Peoria Vats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alexander Fleming noticed a mold killing bacteria and published in 1929, but turning penicillin ...
3 Okt 20min
Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Cinchona Bark, 30C Math and Cholera Wards
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1796, while translating a treatise by the Scottish physician William Cullen, the German docto...
3 Okt 27min
