New for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr
Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of
medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day medicine and
pandemics.
Newly revised and updated for 2020, this new Paperback edition of the
bestselling Sawbones Book gives you a fascinating, horrifying, funny and
memorable tour through centuries of medical experimentation and practice
(and sometimes malpractice). Learn about trepanation, the COVID-19
pandemic, Norovirus, Chickenpox, Diabetes, and more, all inspired by
Sawbones 300+ podcast episodes.
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to
cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear
radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in
your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not! But for
thousands of years, people have done things like this--and things that
make radioactive underpants seem downright sensible! In their hit
podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and
wonderful way we got to modern healthcare . . . and some of the
terrifying detours along the way.
Every week, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin amaze, amuse, and
gross out (depending on the week) hundreds of thousands of avid
listeners to their podcast, Sawbones. Consistently rated a top podcast
on iTunes, with over 15 million total downloads, this rollicking journey
through thousands of years of medical mishaps and miracles is not only
hilarious but downright educational. While you may never even consider
applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once the height of
sophistication when it came to headache cures), you will almost
certainly face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life
(we're looking at you, raw water!) and be better able to figure out if
this is a miracle cure (it's not) or a scam.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Contagious
Quarantine
The Deadly Parade
Detox
The Black Plague
Pliny the Elder
The Man Who Drank Poop
Parrot Fever
Part II: The Unnvering
The Resurrection Men
Opium
An Electrifying Experience
Weight Loss
Charcoal
Erectile Dysfunction
Spontaneous Combustion
Trepanation
The Doctor Is In
Part III: The Gross
Mummy Medicine
Mercury
The Guthole Bromance
A Piece of Your Mind
The Unkillable Phineas Gage
Phrenology
Robert Liston
Urine Luck!
Radium
Humorism
The Straight Poop
The Doctor Is In
Part IV: The Weird
The Dancing Plague
Curtis Howe Springer
Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em
A Titanic Case of Nausea
Arsenic
Paracelsus
Honey
Self-Experimentation
Homeopathy
The Doctor Is In
Part V: The Awesome
The Poison Squad
Bloodletting
Death by Chocolate
John Harvey Kellogg
Vinegar
Polio Vaccine
The Doctor Is In
