A compelling, frequently hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!

Wondering whether eating powdered mummies may be just the thing to get rid of your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you put on radioactive underpants for virility? Ever regarded drilling a opening in your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not. But for thousands of years, folks have done things like this—and things that make radioactive underpants appear downright about The Sawbones Publication: The Horrifying, Hilarious Street to Modern Medicine sensible! In their strike podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy break down the odd and wonderful method we surely got to modern healthcare. And some from the terrifying detours along the way.

Weekly, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her hubby Justin amaze, amuse, and gross out (with regards to the week) hundreds of thousands of passionate listeners with their podcast, Sawbones. Regularly rated a high podcast on iTunes, with over 15 million total downloading, this rollicking journey through a large number of many years of medical mishaps and wonders is not only amusing but downright educational. When you may under no circumstances even consider applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once the elevation of sophistication when it came to headache treatments), you will likely face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life (we’re looking at you, natural water!) and become better in a position to find out if that is a miracle treatment (it’s not) or a scam.