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

ISBN: 1681883813

Author: McElroy, Justin

Condition: New

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 (were looking at you, raw water!) and be better able to figure out if this is a miracle cure (its not) or a scam.Table of Contents:Part 1: The UnnervingThe Resurrection MenOpiumAn Electrifying ExperienceWeight LossCharcoalThe Black PlaguePliny the ElderErectile DysfunctionSpontaneous CombustionThe Doctor Is InTrepanationPart II: The GrossMummy MedicineMercuryThe Guthole BromanceA Piece of Your MindThe Unkillable Phineas GagePhrenologyThe Man Who Drank PoopRobert ListonUrine Luck!RadiumHumorismThe Doctor Is InThe Straight PoopPart III: The WeirdThe Dancing PlagueCurtis Howe SpringerSmoke Em if You Got EmA Titanic Case of NauseaArsenicParacelsusHoneySelf-ExperimentationHomeopathyThe Doctor Is InPart IV: The AwesomeThe Poison SquadBloodlettingDeath by ChocolateJohn Harvey KelloggParrot FeverDetoxVinegarPolio VaccineThe Doctor Is In