Medical Myths Legends and Fairytales
This podcast wrapped up, but the back catalogue holds up well.
No new episodes are coming out. The existing ones are still worth a listen.
Dr. Alan Christianson explores the weird history of medical beliefs - the things humans believed about health and healing that turned out to be spectacularly wrong. Bloodletting, mercury treatments, radioactive health tonics, lobotomies performed with ice picks. Some of these practices killed people for centuries before anyone questioned them. Others turned out to be accidentally right for the wrong reasons. Entertaining and educational in equal measure, with the uncomfortable reminder that some things we do now might look equally insane to future generations.
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