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  • The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

    (By Justin McElroy)

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    “Book Descriptions: A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!

    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 One: The Unnerving
    The Resurrection Men
    Fun w Galvanism
    Weird Weight Loss
    Miracle Cure: Opium
    Black Plague
    Heroes of Misguided Medicine: Pliny the Elder
    Erectile Dysfunction
    The Doctor Is In: Listener Questions Answered
    Don’t Drill a Hole in Your Head

    Part Two: The Gross
    Mummy Medicine
    The Guthole Bromance
    The Unkillable Phineas Gage
    Max Drank Poopy Water
    Heroes of Misguided Medicine: Robert Liston
    Golden Showers of Health
    Miracle Cure-All: Radium
    Dr. John Romulus Brinkley
    The Doctor Is In Q&A
    Just (Four) Humour Me
    The Camel Dung Miracle

    Part Three: The Weird
    The Dancing Plague
    Bad Medicine: Tobacco for Health
    The Seasick-Proof Saloon
    Miracle Cure-All: Vinegar
    The Doctor Is In Q&A
    Heroes of Misguided Medicine

    Part Four: The Awesome
    The Poison Squad
    Bad Medicine: Self Experimentation
    Eat Your Chocolate!
    Heroes of Misguided Medicine
    Parrot Fever
    Miracle Cure-All: Honey
    The Miraculous Polio Vaccine
    The Doctor Is In

     ”

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