WEBVTT - 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.960 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.680 Josh Clark. There's Child's Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry to 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.800 my right. This is Stuffy should Know. Why are your 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.720 eyes closed? A creepy? You sound like shwetty Balls Alo 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.840 Bob swetty Balls get from Saturday Night Live. Man. That 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.640 just that blofted right over here. Now I'm all mellow. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.879 Yeah you irie, Yes, I love that. The beginning of 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.559 this article UM talks about botox. I thought it was 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.960 a pretty good. Uh it was. It said, like, you know, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.040 one day we're gonna look back on injecting batolenum toxin 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.280 A into your face and think that's just crazy. Like 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.920 I think it's crazy. Now, Okay, you know I see 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.160 what you mean. Nuts. Yeah, if you step back and 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.960 look at it, for sure, paralyzing your face muscles to 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.920 look younger. Yeah, especially if you've ever seen Dead Calm. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.080 Did you see that movie? Yeah, with a out on 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.120 the water with the boat. Yeah, I remember he said 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.120 that's what happened to the other people on the bows, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.520 that they all got baculi um and died. Oh, I 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.560 don't remember that. Yeah, that was his whole set up. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.880 His excuse for his explanation for what happened was baculi 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.040 is um. But yeah, that's what I think of when 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.280 I think baculi is um is dead calm. Yeah, and 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.039 with botox he end up looking like a freak. Oh, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:42.880 don't be judgmental, not being judgmental, but it was pretty judgmental. No, yeah, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.840 that's judgmental, I guess. But yeah, I think I think it. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.600 That's my stance is if you want to do that, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.040 then more power to you. But I think people look 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:57.320 weird when they look consistently surprised, So they don't. They 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.840 don't use it just for that. They used to treat 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:04.600 my grains, uh, excessive sweatiness. I should get it also 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.959 known as hyper hydrosis. What what like in the armpit 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.440 or the hands? Yeah, like directly in there. I guess 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.600 this toxin goes in and like deadens the nerve cells. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.760 Maybe I can't remember. The point is we're both agreed, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.960 even in a roundabout way, that it is a very strange, bizarre, 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.679 you might say, medical treatment to inject toxin into your 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.680 face to look youthful. Yeah, I was judging. I take 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.200 it all back. People want to do what they want 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.160 to do. That's fine. I just my personal feeling is 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.440 that it doesn't have the desired effect to make you 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.880 look like you think you look proud of you. Thank you. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:53.600 Uh so, chuck botuli is um batulin botox, we should say, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.799 is pretty much nothing compared to some of the other 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.960 stuff that we've used the past and in some cases 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.240 still continue to use. Because this is all based on 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.200 an article on Housta Works called tim Bizarre Treatments. Doctors 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.000 used to think we're legit, it turns out that some 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.840 of the stuff actually still is legit. Yeah, and um, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.320 you know, we should plug our friends over at Sawbones. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.720 Justin and his wife Dr Sidney McElroy. And Justin does 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.160 My Brother and My Brother and Me podcast with his brothers. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.639 They have a spinoff, not spinoff, they have their own 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.760 podcast with Sawbones where they talk about antiquated medical Uh 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.440 that's all. They talk about antiquated medical treatments. And they 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.440 said they were inspired by our podcast to start that one. Yeah. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.160 But every time we send somebody over to listen to them, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:46.520 they don't come back. Yeah, you know, so stop it. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.280 We created a monster. But anyway, Um, we are in 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.839 turn inspired by them, and uh, it's just a big 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.960 we're blowing smoke each up each other's butt, tobacco smoke. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.400 I'll hard to see it. That was literally where that 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.320 term came from, to blow smoke ups up your arts. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.200 But all it did was redirect to the fact that 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.960 people used to do this for real. And I don't 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.880 know if that's really where the term came from or not. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.920 I don't. I don't either. I can tell you where 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.279 the treatment supposedly came from came from a legend. It 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.040 looks like a legend. I think at the time they 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.240 took it as a factual story that a man rescued 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.200 his drowned wife from a river, I think in France. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.440 And um, I didn't know what to do when a 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.000 soldiers just happened to walk by and said, take this 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.360 pipe and blow the smoke like stick one end into 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.000 erectum and blow on the lid end until she comes 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.960 to I don't think we've even said yet what we're 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.920 talking about, which is a tobacco enema. We're no sawbones. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.599 Tobacco enemas literally blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum of 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.440 an individual for a health reason, and in this case, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.680 the original reason was to revive a drown victim, which 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.960 is apparently what it was initially used for when it 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.280 came into widespread use, and I guess it was in 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.280 widespread use, and apparently it did work. In this initial legend, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.760 the wife came to on the fifth blow and went 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 to a local bar and got a drink and then 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.440 went home after being resuscitated from drowning and then having 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:26.080 a pipe in erect um with smoke blone up her butt. Yes, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.559 and um, there there's speculation that if if it did work, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.400 it was the intrusion of the pipe or later on 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.960 the bellows that probably did it. But the thinking at 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.880 the time was that nicotine was a stimulant and that 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:47.240 this would directly stimulate the person back to life. That's right. Uh, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.560 you mentioned drowning victims. That it was so commonly used 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.520 as a method for helping drowning victims that this equipment 0:05:54.680 --> 0:06:01.000 was um put alongside major waterways, very much like we 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.119 would have a um defribrillator today. They had these along 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.680 like the River Thames, and you had to know where 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.279 they were. And Uh. In seventeen seventy four, doctors William 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.800 Hawes and Thomas Cogan Um in London formed the Institution 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.560 for Affording Immediate Relief two persons apparently dead from drowning, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.960 and they later changed that name to the Royal Humane Society. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.120 That's a lot better. And they have promoted this method 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.680 by paying people for guineas uh to anyone who could 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:35.240 successfully revive a drowning victim. Huh. I'll bet in those 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.520 kids along the waterways you go to use it in 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.600 the tobacco would be missing because local twelve year old 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.919 had gotten into it. It's a good point. Uh. And 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.960 there was even a little rhyme at the British Medical 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.159 Association in the seventeen seventy four at the meeting um 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.000 tobacco glister because it was also called glister g l 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:56.120 y ste er these kids tobacco glister. Breathe and bleed, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.279 keep warm and rub till you succeed, and spare no 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.040 pains for what you do may one day be repaid 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:06.039 to you. What is going on? Uh? You know what 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.000 goes around comes around. What's going on? And I think 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.800 trying to England where I guess if you're if you're 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.120 giving a tobacco animal to somebody and you know that 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:20.800 that little rhymes, you probably would stop because you'd be like, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.840 I don't want this coming back to me. I just 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.080 rather pass on to the next world. Uh well. Dr 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.560 Richard Mead was the first guy who pioneered this in 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.200 mid seventeen hundreds, and by eighteen eleven it was because 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.920 they were like, no, this is not working and it's 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.200 bad for you and you're blown smoke up. Someone's but right, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.800 what are you thinking? And then later on doctors were 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:46.600 used to prescribe cigarettes going through the other end that's right, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.560 which is all untrue supposedly. Yeah, I guess that was 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.760 the Edward Burney's thing. Oh yeah, intent um, all right, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.400 Next up, we have our mercury. Um. If you've ever 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.760 heard of you've ever seen the awesome exhibit the terracotta soldiers. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.560 Did you ever see that? Um? China's first emperor, Qin 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.440 chi Huang Um he was the moment the terracotta soldiers. Yeah, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.880 he was the one that was buried in like this 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.360 basically underground city that was so vast and had all 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.080 these terracotta soldiers guarding him and his own specific to him. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.280 They've they've I was about to say rated much of it, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.720 but they've explored much of it, but not his actual 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.200 tomb still because it has a moat of liquid mercury 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.200 around it, so he's still in situ because of the 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.240 local Yeah, that's pretty neat, pretty neat. And Um, he 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.880 took the stuff as to make himself immortal, um, which 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.680 is ironic because super toxic and it killed him before 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.199 he was forty, but at the opposite effect it did. Um. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.920 His death didn't apparently get out to the rest of 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.840 the world because mercury was used in other kinds of 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.720 medicines for a very long time, apparently up until the parties. Um, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.520 if you had syphilis, your doctor would give you some 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:10.160 sort of ointment, sometimes an injection of mercury to treat syphilis. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.840 And it may or may not have treated the syphilis, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.680 but it would definitely make your teeth fall out and 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.240 make you what would I guess generously be called agitated. Yes, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.199 it had. There's a host of horrible things that can 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.960 happen to you from mercury exposure. Yeah, like death. Um. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.800 Cinnabar was what they used in China as their or 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.760 mercury for two thousand years. And uh, it's it's just 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.840 I find it crazy that I know it was the 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.560 first Emperor of China, so it was a long time ago, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.679 but it just seems weird that hey take this thing 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.880 to make you live forever when it's actually one of 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.360 the most toxic things you can put in your body. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:57.640 They had it backwards. Supposedly, Jeremy Piven had mercury poisoning 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.520 in two he was eating sushi twice a day. I 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.920 remember that, and then I heard that, and then I 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.320 think I remember hearing that that wasn't true, and it 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.640 was maybe it was like made up to get out 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.120 of a movie or something. I don't know. I've got 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.040 looking at that again. I definitely remember when that happened. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.240 Thought strange. I mean, I love sushi, like, yeah, anyone 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.040 go back and listen to our sushi podcast. But I've 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.640 never had mercurial or mercury poisoning. So chuck up next 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.400 is one of my favorites. But I could find almost 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.760 nothing more on this. I found that it did in 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.280 fact exist, and there's schematics and stuff on the on 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.920 the internet, but the whirling chair, there's not much to it. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:46.439 No um again. Mid nineteenth century when um the mentally 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:52.720 ill were treated very poorly locked away put in iron cages. Um. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.200 They had one thing I found called a tranquilizing chair, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.640 and it's basically it looks like an electric chair. You're 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.600 just sitting up completely strapped then, um, but you have 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.080 a box over your head. Well, what's funny is that 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.120 was one of the more humane techniques for treating mental illness. Yeah. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.600 That was like the result of the um humanism progressive 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.760 movement from the mid nineteenth century. That's crazy and sad. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.280 Oh yeah, the history of the treatment metal mental illness 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.040 not just like yeah, we've talked about it a lot, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.560 just across the ages. It's really really sad. Yeah, very 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.240 misunderstood and still is in a lot of ways. Um. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.080 But the whirling chair was it was not all about 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.040 it me. It was not an ice shower or laxative 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.720 or an insulent comma or an insulin comma. It was 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.040 much better. It was a chair with a spring and 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.880 lever system basically where they it looks like they had 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.960 a like it was hooked up to a like a crank. Yeah, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.240 like a crank that you basically just spun these people 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.840 around until they passed out. And based on the schematics 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.040 I saw if you were the operator, you had to 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:04.360 wear pantaloon. Yes, that's right. And apparently they would say 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.200 it would cure your schizophrenia. Um, because it would shuffle 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.000 the contents of your brain and just the right way. Yeah. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.040 Like imagine being strapped to a chair that was spun 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.920 around where you became so dizzy that you passed out, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.120 and on top of it, you have schizophrenia, right, and 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.839 then on top of that they came out and you say, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.440 how are you feeling? Are you cured? I'm cured? Yes? 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.400 Can I please go home now? Yeah? Seriously, they're like, hey, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.319 at least we're not burning you at the stake for 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.920 being a witch. Um. I wish there was more out 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.560 there on that too, though. I think a lot of 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.480 this stuff is just it went the way the dodos, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.960 So there's, you know, not much info on it. Yeah, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.440 I mean there's nothing. It's just there was such thing 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.320 as a whirling chair. Here's how it worked, and the 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.520 reason why they used it was to rearrange your brain 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.080 if you had schizophrenia. That's right. So we'll keep going 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.800 because this is a lot of fun. Yes it is, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.920 but first we have to take a commercial break and 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:18.200 we will do that right now, and we're back Chuck 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.800 and Chuck, do you remember what are we record on 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.080 yesterday where we were talking about antioch t um. So 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.280 remember we talked about how oxygen goes through and and 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.760 steals electrons from other other atoms and other molecules to 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.200 stabilize itself. And that's the process of oxidation. If you 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.119 take that process and multiply it by powers of millions, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.240 what you have is radiation poisoning exposure, high levels of 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.480 exposure to high levels of radiation, is what I'm trying 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.960 to say. Um. For the most part, we do everything 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.640 we can to avoid this kind of thing. UM. But 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.560 it turns out that in the UM late nineteenth century 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.040 early twentieth century there were a lot of products on 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.160 the shelf that did the opposite, that introduced radiation in 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.679 the form of radium um in the in the hopes 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.080 that it would promote health and cure disease. Yeah, Mary 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.720 and Pierre Cury discovered it. In by UM, the US 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.480 was manufacturing synthetic radium UH to use in such things 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:31.120 like um radium schokolada from Burke and Brown it was, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.560 or radium bread from the Hitman block bakery. Radium was 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.760 bread baked with radium water and popular until ninety six, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.560 and radium water was a big thing. The reason why 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.360 it was a big thing apparently it kicked all of 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:49.400 this off because there are natural spas in places like 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:55.440 Hot Springs, Arkansas, UM and somebody started investigating the waters 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.640 and found radon there and they said, well, rd on, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.560 that's radio active. Where can we find that? And they said, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.920 how about radium? So they started putting radium in everything. Yeah, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.920 they had. Here's some of the other products and you 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.480 can look these up. There a lot of fun when 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.720 you look at these old school ads, you know. For 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.440 the relegator, it was a um a radium lace bucket 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.280 basically with a little spigot. It's like a little water tank. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.400 So it just introduced radiation to whatever water you put in. Yep. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.480 Or you could get what they called the radium coin 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.800 that you could just drop like an alka seltzer into 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.320 your water. Um. There was the radium scope, which is 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:37.800 a toy inwo that offered the luminescence in the ad 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.160 also said but also doubles as a wonderful night light 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:46.640 because it glows. Oh yeah, it was for kids. Wow. Toothpaste, um, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.160 but from a man named Alfred Cury who was no 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.520 relation really, even though he used that to his advantage 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.200 the Curie name. And he also had the faux radio 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.080 brand of cosmetics UH rejuvenates and brightens the ski in. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.840 This also kind of brings to focus why little kids 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.680 chemistry sets frequently included radioactive materials like in the middle 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.280 of the twentieth century it glowed well, no, because like 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.440 that you could get it in water if you wanted to, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.120 or cosmetics or contraceptives or chocolate. So why wouldn't you 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.560 put it in a kid's chemistry set too? So before 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.040 I didn't understand that, Now I understand. So Supposedly the 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.120 trend really started to die off in the thirties though, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.320 um thanks to something called rate a Thor and ratea 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.360 Thor was a little tincture that you would take these 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.600 little couple fluid ounce bottles that were highly radioactive. They 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.760 had just tons of radium m and what I guess, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.720 one of the owners or one of the investors in 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.160 the company, his name was Evan Buyers. He was a 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.880 pro golfer too, I believe um. He very publicly died 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.160 of radiation poisoning because he drank three bottles of this 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.880 stuff a day. So after at the public was like, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.520 maybe we shouldn't be doing this anymore. Well, another thing 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.240 they used it for between nineteen seventeen and nineteen twenty six, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:13.840 the US Radium Corporation UM used luminous paint to paint 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.880 clocks clock faces so you could see them. And workers 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.720 were even taught to shape paint brushes with their mouths 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.520 to maintain a finer point. So they were sticking the 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.119 paintbrushes with the paint on them in their mouth, and 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.320 they encouraged them to paint their nails, their teeth, uh, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.919 and to ingest it. But management suspiciously always stayed away 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.000 and avoided exposure themselves. And I know there were a 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.560 bunch of lawsuits because of that. And the other thing 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.439 I found two was they used it before viagran c alice. 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.760 There were um they called them bougies b O U 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:54.600 g I E s um radioactive wax rods inserted into 0:17:54.600 --> 0:18:01.720 the urethra. Ah isn't that crazy? Yeah, for a number 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.080 of reasons. Yeah. Or they had like an athletic supporter 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.720 containing a layer of um radium impregnated fabric that you 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.760 would wear if you had trouble getting an erection. It's 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.760 not nearly as bad as the rods. No, no, all right, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:20.400 how about eurotherapy, dude, So this one apparently is labeled 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:25.600 quack medicine, but there's a lot of there's a lot. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:32.280 It makes sense intuitively, so eurotherapy. Drinking or ingesting or 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.680 having your own urine shot into your bloodstream. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.359 I some people injected. Yeah, it's still a thing. It 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.399 is still a thing. Yeah. UM. Here's why. Urine is 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:45.000 a byproduct of the blood UM and when so in 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.200 your your urine is water two and a half percent 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:55.760 roughly is uria, which is actually a UM has antimicrobial, antimicrobial, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:04.800 anti fungal, and antibacterial product properties and um it also 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.719 has another tune mineral stuff like that, salts, things like that. UM. Apparently, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:16.040 if your blood is toxic, you have toxins in your blood, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.120 your body, your body is triggered to clean it out, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.160 and your urine is clean. If your urine has toxins 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.280 in it, your blood is cleaned out too. There's like 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:29.560 the symbiotic um feedback loop where if one's clean, the 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.000 other one's clean. If one's toxic, the other one's toxic, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.720 and that you can trigger a blood cleaning your blood 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:41.520 cleaning drive supposedly by drinking your own urine. By reintroducing 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.720 the toxins over and over again. Um, your blood could 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.960 be conceivably cleaner. That's the thinking behind this, and there's 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.480 actually again intuitively it makes sense. Yeah, they they Some 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.480 people still think it can stimulate your immune system and 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.760 actually fight cancer exactly basically by making your your body 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:07.560 basically your immune system react more vigorously. Um, it's like 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.480 running it through the ring or on purpose. Yeah. The 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.720 problem is is there's no evidence behind it. There have 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.240 been individual reports um of it stopping cancer growth, but 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.200 no scientific evidence um has come out in favor of it. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.040 But people still do it. Yeah. And there's also been 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.560 tons of stories about people surviving for days and weeks 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.040 by drinking their own urine after being trapped in like 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.520 a collapsed hotel or something like that. Right. Um, but yeah, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.359 there's still there's still I guess, pockets of people who 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.640 engage in urine therapy. Yeah. And um, also we should 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.240 mention it is does not help your jellyfish sting I 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.879 did it. Don't be dumb on that it actually definitely 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.040 makes your jellyfish thing worse. That's another one. Things like 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:56.680 why do people say that if it makes it worse? 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.240 I don't know. It's not an episode of Friends, for 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:04.439 God's sake. I know they propagated a lie. Jerks who 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.679 pete On who? I can't remember. I think didn't they 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.720 all pe on Monica? Yeah? I think Monica got pete On, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.119 But I don't know if it was everybody. Maybe it 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.600 was everybody. Of course you didn't show it. It probably 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.600 wouldn't have been. I don't know. Yeah, I think it was, yeah, 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.399 Courtney Cox, Alright, This next one UM A bit of 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.240 a warning. It is sexual in nature. So if you're listening, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:27.760 maybe you should go ask your mom or dad if 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.520 you should continue listening. If you're a child, yeah, an 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.120 honest kittern't know. If you're an adult, you should call 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.720 up your elderly mother or father. Can I listen to 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:41.760 something about the female orgasm? Right? Which supposedly, apparently for 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:46.520 especially in the Victorian Age, but for centuries before that, 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:55.080 UM was widely considered not to exist. Right um. But strangely, 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:00.200 there was a medical procedure that women would undergo called 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:05.639 UM a pelvic massage yes to treat I don't think 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:11.040 we even said hysteria because women were hysterical quote unquote right. 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:14.680 They couldn't have orgasms, but they could have hysteria, which 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.080 we should point out what the hysteria was is normal 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:23.119 female sexuality. Okay, we know that now, but back then 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.720 it was hysteria. So somehow somewhere along the way, and 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.000 apparently there's um, there's evidence that in ancient Greece the 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.800 pelvic massage was carried out. But in the Victorian Age 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:36.600 you would go to your doctor if you're a woman, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.159 and get a pelvic massage, and then you would be 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:44.800 brought to what was called hysterical paroxysm, which is orgasm, right, 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:50.119 which didn't exist, that's right. Uh. They also it was 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.399 hysteria or wandering womb um was what it was also called. Well, 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.480 wandering room was different. Oh yeah, that was like um 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.840 the idea and apparently Hippocrates either at least espoused it 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:03.720 if he didn't come up with it. That was the 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:08.040 idea that the womb or the uterus floated freely inside 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:12.280 the woman and if it moved around too far it 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:16.639 could cause all sorts of other problems. So it's different 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.560 than hysteria. But the treatment was the same, yes, which 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.960 was bringing a woman to climax a doctor hysterical paroxysm. Yes, 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:29.359 and the doctor would do this um initially using his hands, 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.359 and um, you know, I read one article from the 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.480 New York Times about it and said, there's no evidence 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:37.760 that the male physicians enjoyed this. On the contrary, this 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:43.280 male elite sought every opportunity to substitute other devices um 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:47.159 or have the husband or a midwife, uh come in 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.399 and you know, take care of business for them. So 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:52.840 it wasn't some pervy doctor. This is a lot of 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:57.160 misunderstanding going on at the time, they said. They said, 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.920 by the end of the nineteenth century, sev of women 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.520 suffered from hysteria, which can also be read as seventy 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:08.240 of American women were normal sexual human beings. And I 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.439 guess the other we're just repressed and didn't know they 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:15.159 should be or could be normal sexual human beings. So 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:17.679 it's just crazy they called the hysteria. It's um then 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:20.920 that it went up until the nineteen twenties. So you 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.880 were saying that that doctors were looking for any kind 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.360 of substitute that you could get their hands. One well, 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:30.160 apparently in the late nineteenth century somebody introduced the vibrator. 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.600 After that it became a medical device originally when it 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.600 was introduced, right, Yeah, because it brought that time to 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.320 achieve the hysterical paroxysm down from anywhere up to an 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:46.400 hour down to about ten minutes UM ideally. And um, 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.040 you could buy him at Sears and Roebuck. You know. 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:52.639 It was, like you said, a medical device, and women 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.320 loved them. And uh, by the nineteen twenties they started 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.560