Mercury. Dog hair. Heroine. What do all of these things have in common? They were all used at one point in time for cures to various ailments before the advent of modern medicine. Biology student and full time dog mom Stephanie Renee takes you on small journeys through medical oddities and how they were treated in the Victorian era and present day.
You're gonna put what in my cheek?This episode taps into the history of ophthalmology and the first corneal transplant to todays modern methods that, to be honest, are kind of weirder.
Things we use everyday have to be created by someone, but we never stop to think of who or why they did it.
This episode goes into the history of Schizophrenia treatments from sulfur injections to induced fevers, as why some patients "hear voices".
How keeping a messy room lead to one of the greatest medical inventions.
Charlatan Podcast is a medical history and oddity podcast hosted by Stephanie Renee.
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