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Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Child's Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry to

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Speaker 1: my right. This is Stuffy should Know. Why are your

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Speaker 1: eyes closed? A creepy? You sound like shwetty Balls Alo

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Speaker 1: Bob swetty Balls get from Saturday Night Live. Man. That

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Speaker 1: just that blofted right over here. Now I'm all mellow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you irie, Yes, I love that. The beginning of

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Speaker 1: this article UM talks about botox. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a pretty good. Uh it was. It said, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: one day we're gonna look back on injecting batolenum toxin

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Speaker 1: A into your face and think that's just crazy. Like

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Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. Now, Okay, you know I see

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Speaker 1: what you mean. Nuts. Yeah, if you step back and

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Speaker 1: look at it, for sure, paralyzing your face muscles to

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Speaker 1: look younger. Yeah, especially if you've ever seen Dead Calm.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that movie? Yeah, with a out on

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Speaker 1: the water with the boat. Yeah, I remember he said

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Speaker 1: that's what happened to the other people on the bows,

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Speaker 1: that they all got baculi um and died. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't remember that. Yeah, that was his whole set up.

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Speaker 1: His excuse for his explanation for what happened was baculi

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Speaker 1: is um. But yeah, that's what I think of when

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Speaker 1: I think baculi is um is dead calm. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: with botox he end up looking like a freak. Oh,

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Speaker 1: don't be judgmental, not being judgmental, but it was pretty judgmental. No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's judgmental, I guess. But yeah, I think I think it.

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Speaker 1: That's my stance is if you want to do that,

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Speaker 1: then more power to you. But I think people look

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Speaker 1: weird when they look consistently surprised, So they don't. They

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Speaker 1: don't use it just for that. They used to treat

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Speaker 1: my grains, uh, excessive sweatiness. I should get it also

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Speaker 1: known as hyper hydrosis. What what like in the armpit

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Speaker 1: or the hands? Yeah, like directly in there. I guess

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Speaker 1: this toxin goes in and like deadens the nerve cells.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I can't remember. The point is we're both agreed,

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Speaker 1: even in a roundabout way, that it is a very strange, bizarre,

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Speaker 1: you might say, medical treatment to inject toxin into your

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Speaker 1: face to look youthful. Yeah, I was judging. I take

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Speaker 1: it all back. People want to do what they want

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Speaker 1: to do. That's fine. I just my personal feeling is

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't have the desired effect to make you

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Speaker 1: look like you think you look proud of you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, chuck botuli is um batulin botox, we should say,

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Speaker 1: is pretty much nothing compared to some of the other

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Speaker 1: stuff that we've used the past and in some cases

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Speaker 1: still continue to use. Because this is all based on

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Speaker 1: an article on Housta Works called tim Bizarre Treatments. Doctors

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Speaker 1: used to think we're legit, it turns out that some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff actually still is legit. Yeah, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we should plug our friends over at Sawbones. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Justin and his wife Dr Sidney McElroy. And Justin does

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Speaker 1: My Brother and My Brother and Me podcast with his brothers.

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Speaker 1: They have a spinoff, not spinoff, they have their own

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Speaker 1: podcast with Sawbones where they talk about antiquated medical Uh

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Speaker 1: that's all. They talk about antiquated medical treatments. And they

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Speaker 1: said they were inspired by our podcast to start that one. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But every time we send somebody over to listen to them,

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Speaker 1: they don't come back. Yeah, you know, so stop it.

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Speaker 1: We created a monster. But anyway, Um, we are in

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Speaker 1: turn inspired by them, and uh, it's just a big

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Speaker 1: we're blowing smoke each up each other's butt, tobacco smoke.

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Speaker 1: I'll hard to see it. That was literally where that

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Speaker 1: term came from, to blow smoke ups up your arts.

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Speaker 1: But all it did was redirect to the fact that

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Speaker 1: people used to do this for real. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's really where the term came from or not.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't either. I can tell you where

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Speaker 1: the treatment supposedly came from came from a legend. It

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Speaker 1: took it as a factual story that a man rescued

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Speaker 1: his drowned wife from a river, I think in France.

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Speaker 1: And um, I didn't know what to do when a

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Speaker 1: soldiers just happened to walk by and said, take this

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Speaker 1: to I don't think we've even said yet what we're

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Speaker 1: Tobacco enemas literally blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum of

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Speaker 1: an individual for a health reason, and in this case,

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Speaker 1: the original reason was to revive a drown victim, which

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Speaker 1: widespread use, and apparently it did work. In this initial legend,

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Speaker 1: this would directly stimulate the person back to life. That's right. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned drowning victims. That it was so commonly used

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Speaker 1: they were. And Uh. In seventeen seventy four, doctors William

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Speaker 1: for Affording Immediate Relief two persons apparently dead from drowning,

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Speaker 1: and they later changed that name to the Royal Humane Society.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot better. And they have promoted this method

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Speaker 1: successfully revive a drowning victim. Huh. I'll bet in those

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Speaker 1: kids along the waterways you go to use it in

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Speaker 1: the tobacco would be missing because local twelve year old

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Speaker 1: tobacco glister because it was also called glister g l

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Speaker 1: y ste er these kids tobacco glister. Breathe and bleed,

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Speaker 1: keep warm and rub till you succeed, and spare no

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Speaker 1: goes around comes around. What's going on? And I think

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Speaker 1: trying to England where I guess if you're if you're

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Speaker 1: Richard Mead was the first guy who pioneered this in

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Speaker 1: it had. There's a host of horrible things that can

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Speaker 1: They had it backwards. Supposedly, Jeremy Piven had mercury poisoning

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Speaker 1: in two he was eating sushi twice a day. I

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Speaker 1: No um again. Mid nineteenth century when um the mentally

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Speaker 1: lever system basically where they it looks like they had

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Speaker 1: Like imagine being strapped to a chair that was spun

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Speaker 1: years ago, he was a barber. You know, this is

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00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: in the seventies, I think when he was a guest

424
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: and people come in for everything and he's like, you

425
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: just need a good bleeding, like everything under the sun.

426
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: People would come in for let's just put a lancet

427
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 1: in there and open up a vein. See what happens.

428
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: And that's basically what they did. They would, you know,

429
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: it was this more spiritual thing, like the evil spirits

430
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: would be out through your blood or like we mentioned

431
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: in the anesthesia episode, they would use that for anesthesia

432
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: and do stupor through blood. Boss. But um, the they

433
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't always use lancets. Oh, and apparently that was one

434
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 1: of the reasons why George Washington may have died, was

435
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: just too much blood blighting. His doctor really really put

436
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: his foot on the gas with blood lighting. And when

437
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: he designed his deathbed. Did she go to Mountain Vernon?

438
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: Didn't you go? Yeah? I've been a couple of times.

439
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: There was like a whole they have, like I think

440
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: there's the blood lighting bowl that they used on him

441
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: still there. Oh, I didn't even notice. There's a separate

442
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: museum that's like brand new. I went to all that stuff.

443
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 1: That is that where it is? Yeah, but I mean,

444
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, there's the bed that he died in right there. Yeah,

445
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: you can land blood lighting bowls right there. Yes, you

446
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: can't go l in it. Um. But the the rather

447
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: than lance it's they would also sometimes use are very

448
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: frequently use leeches, which and they've been using them for

449
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: thousands of years apparently for blood lighting. Yeah, and this

450
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: was back when they practiced what was known as humorl medicine,

451
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: based on the four humors in the body, which is

452
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: everyone knows because of the popular T shirt we sell

453
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: flam yellow bile, black bile, and blood for the Four Humors? Right?

454
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: What t shirt do we sell? I was just kidding.

455
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: We should have one totally the Four Humors. Just have

456
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: that on there and then s y s K on

457
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: the front. Okay, it could be a big seller. Who

458
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,239
Speaker 1: doesn't want a shirt that says black, bile and flam um.

459
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: So with blood lighting or with using leeches for blood

460
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: lighting everyone who. I think it was the Indians originally

461
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: from India who came up with this using leeches for

462
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: blood letting, and they were really onto something because, like

463
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,239
Speaker 1: you said, medical leeches are still in use today here

464
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: in the United States. They're an f d A approved

465
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: medical device, and leeches secrete something called here here Harudin.

466
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going with, Haruden h I r U

467
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: d I. And I'll bet the guests from Sawbones would

468
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: have said it right um, and in in their saliva

469
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: you will find haruden and Harudin is an anti coagulant. No,

470
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: it's a coagulant, so it keeps you from bleeding to death. Um.

471
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: It has antibiotic properties, it's a numbing agent, and it's

472
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: a vasodilator, right, which means that it relaxes your your blood.

473
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: So it can flow more freely. But it also is

474
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: an anti coagulant, so you don't bleed to death. All

475
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: of this in each saliva. And they use it today,

476
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: um for like skin graphs and for um when they

477
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: reattach limbs, that kind of thing. Yeah. I think we

478
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: had someone even right in and send us pictures of

479
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: their medical leeches, which are in little vials. It's pretty cool.

480
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 1: It's pretty neat. But I mean, this is an ancient, ancient,

481
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: millennia old medical technique that is still to this day used,

482
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: and it's an FDA approved medical device. Now, leeches are

483
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: I just think that's really cool. It is super cool, uh,

484
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, because it means it's there's still an open

485
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: mind in the medical community. Oh yeah, it's way open.

486
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: You know. Let's try whatever. Uh, we are gonna keep going.

487
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: I say, we do all ten for the first time ever.

488
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: What about you? Yeah, let's do it. All right, We're

489
00:29:46,120 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: gonna keep going right after this, all right, Chuck, we're back. Yeah, man,

490
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: we're taking it home with I'm just I'm doing some

491
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm taking some medicine, man, some some cocaine and opium.

492
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: I bought it at the corner store. Yeah, and then

493
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: you could buy your rig if you inject it from

494
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: the serious catalog. Yeah, a cocaine kit. Yeah and seen.

495
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: So how are we doing a scene? I was playing myself,

496
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: you know, I was doing a scene. Uh. Apparently you

497
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: could get a morphine, cocaine all this stuff, um, very

498
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: very easily, and in tons of medical or medicine and

499
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: elixers that you would buy over the counter in the

500
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: nineteenth century. Yeah, not just medicines. Um, cocaine was in

501
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, um, most notably coca cola at first, Um,

502
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: cocaine toothdrops give your kids, Yeah, cocaine throat lozenges. We did.

503
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: You just reminded me. We did a gallery. There's a

504
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: gallery on stuff you should know, Like, um, you have

505
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: the cocaine poster right the kid, Uh yeah, cocaine tooth drops. Um,

506
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: it's it's like crazy medical ads or medicine pharmaceutical ads

507
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: from yesteryear. We'll put that up when this is really

508
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: good stuff. Yeah, but that one's in there, the cocaine

509
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: tooth drops. And it's got like a little kid playing

510
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: happy because he's on cocaine, playing vigorously. And look at

511
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: this kid. Did you see Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for

512
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: teething children. Look at out wasted that kid is. Yeah,

513
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: he can't even pick his head up off the pillar. Hilarious.

514
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: His eyes are half lidded. He's like, I love teething

515
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: um for the throat lozenges. The ads as indispensable for singers, teaches,

516
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: and orators to quiet a sore throat and to quiet

517
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: the demons in your head. Yeah, they order to add

518
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: the demons in your head. Or how about this cocaine wine.

519
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: The Oka line market was really big. Um. Yeah, the

520
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: then Marianna was the most recognized and most popular brand

521
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: at the time, but there were a lot of them,

522
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: and that's just cocaine. We also talked about opium um.

523
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: There was something I saw another ad for something called

524
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: stickney and pores paregoric and McCormick made that the popular

525
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: spice maker and they even have the recommended doses for infants,

526
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: children and adults, and it was alcohol and the rest

527
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: was opium ninety two proof man and that is that

528
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: looked on them or laudanum laudanum. No, but that was

529
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: like an alcohol mixer. Yeah, maybe I guess it was

530
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: laudanum um. Is that how you say it? Laudanum? Yeah?

531
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: I think so. It's not the same as de lauded, right,

532
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: it's different, but de lauded isn't opiate. But it's like

533
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: a it's just a straight up opiate that's used for medicine. Yeah,

534
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy. People just used to like to

535
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: put a few drops under their tongue and like it

536
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: would start their child or like, uh, I know we've

537
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: talked about the Soderberg's TV show. Is that on still?

538
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't kept up with it lately,

539
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: but in the opening episodes, I mean, the doctor what's

540
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: his face is like shooting cocaine between his toes on

541
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: a daily basis. I watched Edwood again the other day.

542
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: First of all, it's even better than ever. It's great

543
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: movie Hill Murray so great. Yeah. Uh and then uh,

544
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: I've I forgot Martin Landa was like a junkie in it.

545
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: Yeah he's an opium p and yeah, but he injects

546
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: it using his sears in Roebuck opium injection kill but

547
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: probably yeah, lest just lots of crazy things. Uh So Yeah,

548
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: strong drugs available over the counter until people wised up,

549
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: uh and started making strong drugs pharmaceutical style. They're like,

550
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: you can't have this anymore unless you come to the hospital.

551
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: Then we'll hook you up. How about trepid nation, man,

552
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: which you pointed out we talked about before in the

553
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: lobotomy episode. I think so, it's just I know we've

554
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: mentioned it at some point because we talked about the

555
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: movie Pie. Yeah. Where um spoiler alert, Oh yeah, big spoiler.

556
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: That's how it ends. Yeah, it turns out that um

557
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: people have done that. There was a guy named um

558
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: Bart Hughes who was a I guess kind of like

559
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: a crazy genius from the nineteen sixties. He decided that

560
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: um our brains originally were constructed for us to be

561
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: walking on all fours, and once we started walking upright,

562
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: the blood supply to our brain was diminished. Makes sense

563
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: in a weird way. He also decided that our skulls

564
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: had grown to decrease blood flow in the brain, and

565
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: that the best way to counteract this was to cut

566
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: a hole in your skull to allow more blood flow. Yeah,

567
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: that's what trepid nation is. Drilling a hole in your skull, right,

568
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: or cutting a whole piece a square, a circle, like

569
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: removing a sizeable chunk. There's um evidence of trepid nation

570
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: that goes back thousands of years years. Yeah, and some

571
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: of these skulls show almost half the skull removed. But

572
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: what's crazy is with trepid nation, including Bart hughes own

573
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: self trepen nation, the patient frequently survived. And this is

574
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: long before anesthesia. We're talking again ten thousand years ago UM,

575
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: where people were basically held down and somebody in say

576
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: Peru or Mesoamerica, or India or Russia, all over the place,

577
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: this this practice was carried out. They would grab an

578
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: obsidian rock and start shaving away at the scalp and

579
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: then basically chisel out a portion of the skull and

580
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: remove it to allow the brain to um well, either

581
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: to allow evil spirits out. Yeah, back then that was

582
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: more of the line of thought. Or it's possible that

583
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: they were treating an injury and this would reduce brain swelling.

584
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: I found a great article a vice Um. They did

585
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: an interview with Amanda Fielding, who in the nineteen seventies

586
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: Tree banned herself. She was a follower of Bart. He

587
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: was all bet she was. I think she's a director

588
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: of the Beckley Foundation, UM who does research into consciousness

589
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: man and um, she actually made a little film of

590
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: her doing it. You can watch. Um it's it looks

591
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: like super eight and it's like super choppy. It's not

592
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: very uh intensive, but two and a half stars, but

593
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: two and half stars to two tomatoes. But um, it

594
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: does show her drilling herself in the head. Um. She

595
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: said she was very cautious and prepared very carefully, but

596
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: she used an electric drill with a flat bottom and

597
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: a foot pedal, tested the drill on the membranes of

598
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: my hand to see would damage the skin, and then

599
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: did it, made a film about it, and then she

600
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: said afterward, I wrapped my head in a scarf, ate

601
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: a stake to replace iron for moss blood, and went

602
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: to a party. And she points out that she's not

603
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: advocating self trepidation at all, but she said a benefit her.

604
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: She said there was a feeling of of the tide

605
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: coming in slowly and gently, very subtly. And one thing

606
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: she really noticed was a change in her dream patterns.

607
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: Her dreams became much less anxious. But she also says

608
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: that it could be a placebo as well. She acknowledges

609
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: all that but it was interesting. I mean, this was

610
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, and I think she was a follower

611
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: of that guy because she said that the loss of

612
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: pulse pressure UM in the brain when you're Fontanelle's clothes

613
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: basically is the reason that she did it, like she

614
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: fully believed that. But that's part hughes all over the place. So, UM,

615
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: don't do it people, No, did we need to say that?

616
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I hope not. All Right, we

617
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: got one more. He thought it couldn't get any weird er.

618
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: Corpse medicine a k a. Cannibalism, Yeah, that's another way

619
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: to put it. So we did not cover in cannibalism weirdly,

620
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: did we. I'd be surprised. I think that's pretty comprehensive.

621
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: If we didn't, I don't remember doing it. Of course

622
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything. Um. So, corpse medicine or cannibalism

623
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: is basically eating human flesh to cure disease. And apparently

624
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: it started out with the Egyptians who decided that um,

625
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: if you ate mummies, yeah, or mummy powder at least, yeah, Um,

626
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: it could cure a lot of different diseases, Yeah, like

627
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 1: muscle aches and headaches. Uh. They also would rub human

628
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: fat on, like topically on your body, and they thought

629
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: something was wrong. Drinking the blood of a gladiator in

630
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: ancient Rome was supposedly enough to cure your epilepsy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's made with mummies anymore. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the article, So it's out there somewhere. Uh. Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: there's a pretty cool Smithsonian article called the Gruesome History

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Speaker 1: mentioned the pronunciation of the in the folklore episode. I

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Speaker 1: one of the more important rules for my teachers that

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Speaker 1: and word combinations can sound surprisingly different when they're sung

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Speaker 1: versus spoken, So there are a bunch of interesting tricks

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Speaker 1: he used to counteract this diphthongs are used to emphasize

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Speaker 1: With the word the the trick is to slightly adjust

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Speaker 1: how it's pronounced. These should be used when it precedes

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Speaker 1: a word beginning with a consonant and uh, the sorry,

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Speaker 1: and these should be used when it precedes a vowel.

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Speaker 1: May sound silly and bourgeois, but there is a reason

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Speaker 1: for this. Like Josh guests, a phrase like the apple

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Speaker 1: lot more like the apple makes sense, which is weird

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Speaker 1: and a made up word. But switched to the apple

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Speaker 1: recognizable even when sung. Next time you're listening to any

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Speaker 1: you'll start to notice this use everywhere. Big shout out

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Speaker 1: to my former vocal teacher Mrs Alphart A U F

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Speaker 1: F A R T H Alphart, So you would say

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Speaker 1: the alphar that's right, Alfar. So she thanks her for

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Speaker 1: making her such a nut about pronunciation, and that is

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Speaker 1: from Nicole. Thanks a lot, Nicole, very nice. We appreciate that.

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