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Leonhard Seppala and Togo: The 1925 Serum Run's Overlooked Heroes
Oct 3, 202622 min
Narcolepsy and Orexin: Laughter Collapses, Lost Neurons and H1N1
Oct 3, 202625 min
Minnesota Starvation Experiment: 36 Volunteers, 24 Weeks of Hunger
Oct 3, 202623 min
The Marshmallow Test Revisited: Trust, Broken Promises and Cuttlefish
Oct 3, 202620 min
Charles Osborne's 68-Year Hiccups: A 350-Pound Hog and 430 Million Spasms
Oct 3, 202618 min
Wilhelm Röntgen: Expelled Over a Cartoon, Then Gave X-Rays Away for Free
Oct 3, 202619 min
Robert Liston: 'Time Me, Gentlemen' and Europe's First Ether Amputation
Oct 3, 202621 min
Mithridates VI of Pontus: Poisoned by His Mother, Then Immune by Design
Oct 3, 202623 min
Vivien Thomas: The Janitor-Paid Lab Genius Behind the Blue Baby Operation
Oct 3, 202622 min
C-Section History: Caesar Myth, Banana Wine Surgery and Placenta Accreta
Oct 3, 202623 min
Cryonics: Vitrification, Thawed Bodies and the Walt Disney Freezer Myth
Oct 3, 202623 min
Joseph Meister: Pasteur's First Rabies Patient and His 1940 Death
Oct 3, 202616 min
Frederick Banting: Failed Speller, War Surgeon and the Insulin Nobel Split
Oct 3, 202623 min
L'Inconnue de la Seine: The Drowned Face Behind the Resusci Anne Manikin
Oct 3, 202618 min
Patent Medicines: Medicine Shows, Radithor and the Jake Leg Paralysis
Oct 3, 202622 min
Asbestos: Khosrow's Fireproof Napkin, Kent Filters and Nellie Kershaw
Oct 3, 202625 min
Mercury Hatters: Erethism, the Danbury Shakes and a 1941 Wartime Ban
Oct 3, 202624 min
Henry Heimlich: The Flutter Valve, Abdominal Thrusts and Malaria Therapy
Oct 3, 202619 min
John Hunter: Charles Byrne's Stolen Skeleton and the Two-Door House
Oct 3, 202624 min
Safety Coffins: Bell Strings, Sniffing Tubes and Graveyard Sausage Meals
Oct 3, 202622 min
Henry Dunant: From Solferino's Wounded to Bankrupt Red Cross Founder
Oct 3, 202621 min
Leonid Rogozov: The 1961 Antarctic Surgeon Who Removed His Own Appendix
Oct 3, 202620 min
Theriac: Mithridates' Antidote, Roasted Viper Flesh and Hidden Opium
Oct 3, 202621 min
Jill Price and HSAM: The Woman Who Remembers Every Day Since Age 14
Oct 3, 202621 min
Sigmund Freud: Eel Dissections, Cocaine, Emma Eckstein and Escape to London
Oct 3, 202619 min
Porphyria: Purple Urine, Vampire Myths and King George III's Arsenic
Oct 3, 202628 min
Situs Inversus: Mirrored Organs, a Firing Squad Survivor and Cilia
Oct 3, 202622 min
Aphantasia: No Mind's Eye, Pixar's Ed Catmull and the Red Apple Test
Oct 3, 202620 min
Chimerism: Karen Keegan's DNA Mystery, Marmoset Twins and Lab Hybrids
Oct 3, 202621 min
Laura Bridgman: The Deafblind Girl Who Taught Anne Sullivan to Spell
Oct 3, 202620 min
Jerri Nielsen: Self-Biopsy, Airdropped Chemo and a South Pole Winter
Oct 3, 202620 min
Sleepwalking Brain: Deep N3 Sleep, Night Cooking and Murder Trials
Oct 3, 202622 min
Hysteria's Long Afterlife: Scent Therapy, Galen and the Mary Glover Trial
Oct 3, 202625 min
The Nocebo Effect: Sugar Pill Side Effects, Statin Scares and Curses
Oct 3, 202621 min
The Mammalian Diving Reflex: Seal Hearts, Bajau Spleens and Cold Water
Oct 3, 202621 min
Human Echolocation: Daniel Kish, Ben Underwood and Seeing With Clicks
Oct 3, 202625 min
Onesimus: The Arm Scar That Taught Cotton Mather to Fight Smallpox
Oct 3, 202620 min
Earle Dickson's Band-Aid: A Kitchen Fix That Sold $3,000 in Year One
Oct 3, 202618 min
Sildenafil: The Failed Angina Drug From Sandwich, Kent That Became Viagra
Oct 3, 202622 min
The Liver: Prometheus's Myth, 500 Jobs and Regrowth From 25 Percent
Oct 3, 202623 min
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Gut Yeast That Makes Sober People Legally Drunk
Oct 3, 202625 min
The McGurk Effect: Why Seeing Ga and Hearing Ba Makes You Hear Da
Oct 3, 202619 min
Neuroplasticity: London Cabbies' Brains, Phantom Limbs and Ketamine
Oct 3, 202626 min
The Eye's Blind Spot: Edme Mariotte Shows Louis XIV the Hole in Vision
Oct 3, 202620 min
Phosphenes: Newton's Bodkin, the Prisoner's Cinema and BrainNet Tetris
Oct 3, 202624 min
Déjà Vu Explained: Boirac's 1876 Term, Brain Double Clicks and fMRI
Oct 3, 202624 min
Endorphins: Pig Brain Discovery, POMC and the Runner's High Mix-Up
Oct 3, 202621 min
Hypothermia Stage by Stage: Paradoxical Undressing and Hide-and-Die
Oct 3, 202622 min
Beriberi and White Rice: Takaki's Navy Voyage and Eijkman's Chickens
Oct 3, 202622 min
Insulin's Story: Cone Snail Venom, a Coin Toss in Toronto and E. coli
Oct 3, 202622 min