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Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Commission and the Camp Lazear Mosquito Cabins
Oct 3, 202612 min
Tuberculosis: Mammoth Cave Cure, Waxy Armor and Totally Drug-Resistant TB
Oct 3, 202621 min
Triage From the Edwin Smith Papyrus to Larrey's Flying Ambulances
Oct 3, 202625 min
Thomas Midgley Jr.: Leaded Gas, Freon and the Pulley Rig That Killed Him
Oct 3, 202622 min
Synesthesia: Red Letter A, Derek Tastes of Earwax and Bouba-Kiki
Oct 3, 202622 min
Split-Brain Patients: The Chicken and Snow Shovel Test to Kim Peek
Oct 3, 202623 min
Spaceflight's Toll on the Body: Boiling Saliva, Bone Loss and Molting Feet
Oct 3, 202622 min
René Laennec's Rolled Paper Tube: How Awkwardness Made the Stethoscope
Oct 3, 202620 min
Clark Stanley, Rattlesnake King: Snake Oil, Beef Tallow and a $20 Fine
Oct 3, 202624 min
Variolation: Onesimus in Boston, Johnny Notions and Snorted Smallpox Scabs
Oct 3, 202623 min
Suspended Animation: Anna Bågenholm's 80 Minutes Under Ice and Cold Surgery
Oct 3, 202622 min
Botulinum Toxin: Justinus Kerner's Sausage Poison to Oculinum and Botox
Oct 3, 202622 min
TB Sanatoriums: Aalto's Paimio, Arizona Tent Cities and Soviet Worker Spas
Oct 3, 202622 min
Rorschach's Inkblots: A Printer's Error, Exner Scoring and a Wikipedia War
Oct 3, 202622 min
Warfarin: From Moldy Sweet Clover Cattle Deaths to Eisenhower's Heart
Oct 3, 202625 min
Rabies: Hydrophobia, Bat Bites, Swiss Fox Baits and the Milwaukee Protocol
Oct 3, 202624 min
Quinine: Cinchona Bark, Java's Dutch Cartel and the Birth of Gin and Tonic
Oct 3, 202621 min
Proprioception: Muscle Spindles, the Pinocchio Illusion and Ian Waterman
Oct 3, 202625 min
Vagus Nerve: Otto Loewi's Frog Hearts, Fainting and Parkinson's in the Gut
Oct 3, 202622 min
Oxytocin's Dark Side: Swift Birth, Trust Sprays and Lying for the Tribe
Oct 3, 202623 min
Balmis Expedition: 22 Orphans Who Carried Smallpox Vaccine Across Oceans
Oct 3, 202622 min
G-Force Limits: John Stapp's 46 Gs, Kenny Bräck's 214 Gs and Mantis Shrimp
Oct 3, 202620 min
Mirror Neurons: From Parma's Macaque Peanut to the Broken Mirror Backlash
Oct 3, 202621 min
Michel Lotito, Monsieur Mangetout: Nine Tons of Metal and a Cessna 150
Oct 3, 202620 min
Female Hysteria: 4,000 Years From Wandering Womb to Its 1980 DSM Removal
Oct 3, 202624 min
The Caduceus Mix-Up: Hermes' Staff of Commerce vs the Rod of Asclepius
Oct 3, 202623 min
Malaria's Plasmodium Parasite: Liver Stealth, Sticky Red Cells and Vaccines
Oct 3, 202621 min
MASH Units Beyond the Sitcom: Korean War Helicopters and Triage Tags
Oct 3, 202615 min
Leprosy (Hansen's Disease): Hijacked Nerve Cells, Armadillos, Alice Ball
Oct 3, 202622 min
Lead Poisoning: Roman Sapa, Midgley's Leaded Gas and Turmeric Adulteration
Oct 3, 202623 min
Laudanum's Long Run: Paracelsus' Secret Pill to Deadly Pharmacy Mix-Ups
Oct 3, 202626 min
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Ottoman Engrafting, Newgate Trials and Pope
Oct 3, 202619 min
The Royal Touch for Scrofula: Angel Coins, Henry IV and Charles II's 92,000
Oct 3, 202621 min
Karl Landsteiner: Discovering ABO Blood Types, Polio and the Rh Factor
Oct 3, 202622 min
Sokushinbutsu: Japan's Self-Mummified Monks and the 3,000-Day Tree Diet
Oct 3, 202625 min
Howard Florey and Penicillin: Bedpan Cultures, a Constable and Peoria Vats
Oct 3, 202620 min
Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Cinchona Bark, 30C Math and Cholera Wards
Oct 3, 202627 min
Gunther von Hagens: How Plastination Turned Bodies Into Body Worlds
Oct 3, 202620 min
Bezoar Stones: Paré's Poisoned Cook, Caveat Emptor and Coca-Cola Cures
Oct 3, 202625 min
Germ Theory vs Miasma: From Varro's Tiny Creatures to Pasteur's Swan Neck
Oct 3, 202623 min
Franz Mesmer: Animal Magnetism, the Baquet and Ben Franklin's Blind Tests
Oct 3, 202623 min
Foxglove to Digoxin: William Withering, Yellow Vision and Van Gogh's Myth
Oct 3, 202628 min
Royal Flying Doctor Service: Pocket Knife Surgery to Pedal Radio Rescues
Oct 3, 202620 min
The Stapes: Your Smallest Bone, a Fish Gill Relic and a Renaissance Feud
Oct 3, 202617 min
Clair Patterson: Dating Earth at 4.55 Billion Years and Ending Leaded Gas
Oct 3, 202622 min
Fight or Flight: Osteocalcin, Timid Guppies and Why Freezing Works
Oct 3, 202620 min
Edmond Locard's Exchange Principle: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Oct 3, 202617 min
Earworms: Jean Harris's 33-Year Song Loop and Why Lady Gaga Sticks
Oct 3, 202622 min
Goldberger's Filth Parties: Injecting Pellagra Blood to Disprove a Germ
Oct 3, 202618 min
Pellagra's Four Ds: Untreated Corn, King Cotton and Joseph Goldberger
Oct 3, 202624 min