Bibliograph

Sawbones, the horrifying, hilarious road to modern medicine, written by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy ; illustrated by Teylor Smirl

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Sawbones, the horrifying, hilarious road to modern medicine, written by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy ; illustrated by Teylor Smirl

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sawbones

Oclc number

1228812894

Responsibility statement

written by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy ; illustrated by Teylor Smirl

Series statement

revised & expanded e

Sub title

the horrifying, hilarious road to modern medicine

Summary

"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."--, Amazon.com summary

Table Of Contents

Part I: The Contagious. Quarantine ; The Deadly Parade ; Detox ; The Black Plague ; Pliny the Elder ; The Man Who Drank Poop ; Parrot Fever -- Part II: The Unnerving. 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

Target audience

general

resource.variantTitle

Sawbones book

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