1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome 2 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always 3 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: so much for tuning in today's episode. Just a heads up, 4 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: today's episode has some graphic body stuff involved. I think 5 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: it's well intentioned, but just so you know this is 6 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 1: this is a bit of a gross episode today anyway. 7 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm Ben. I am not currently uh Life Awakener user now, 8 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: but I did hurt myself today to see if I 9 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: still felt and it turns down I did feel uh 10 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: and it hurt. Man, It hurt when I hurt myself today. 11 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: That's what today's story is about. It's about hurting in 12 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: order to feel better or something, uh, through the eyes 13 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: of a German innovator, medical wizard, slash quack slash I 14 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: don't even know what, by the name of Carl Bound Streight, 15 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: who was born in eighteen o nine, and he came 16 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: up with something like you said, Ben, the German translation 17 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: of Life Awakener isa uh. And this was in eighteen 18 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: forty seven, and he was inspired to create this device 19 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: which I will you so eloquently described off. Mike, I'm 20 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: gonna let you do that again, hopefully, Uh. I feel 21 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: indulge us. But it was something that occurred to him 22 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: when he was bitten on the hand by mosquitoes um 23 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: and realized that his arthritis felt better when he was 24 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: being bitten nats rather but you know little bity dadfly things. Yeah. 25 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: And uh, talking earlier off air with our super producer 26 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: Casey Pegrum, Uh, we built a little bit of a 27 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: theory about what was happening when Carl saw these bugs 28 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: biting his hand. So in his in his mind, the 29 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: bug biting the hand created an opening in his skin, 30 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: an artificial poor and this allowed the sickness or the 31 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: toxins or whatever you want to call them, to drain 32 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: from his body. What may have been happening, depending on 33 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: the animal, whether it's a mosquito or you know, whatever 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: kind of buget is, it may have just been injecting 35 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: him with something that numbed his hand, right, a chemical 36 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: that a bug would use when biting. But he didn't 37 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: think about that part, No, he did note. Instead, Carl 38 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: decided that he would build something like this, uh, and 39 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: that this would be a new medical revolution. The libans waker, 40 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: the life awakener. It it looks like and and we're 41 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: all adults. Here it looks like a sex toy that 42 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: is incredibly violent. It has a one end. It's it's 43 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: an ebony rod, and on one end there are these 44 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: spring loaded needles, kind of in a circular shape. Yeah, exactly. 45 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: And the idea is that if you are if you 46 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: are using this, you will put it against your body 47 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: and certain strategic spots you'll pop the needles. They'll puncture 48 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: your skin, creating what he calls artificial pores, but what 49 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: the rest of the world would recognize as puncture wounds. 50 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: And then you would apply a proprietary oil of Karl's 51 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: own design, and this oil would create blisters on those wounds. Ben, 52 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: was this oil of the snake variety. That's a good question. 53 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: I am tempted to say. The answer is yes, or 54 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: at least it's yes, if you're talking about how this 55 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: would be uh, this would be used. He called this 56 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: the ex n thematic method or and we are not 57 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: German speakers, folks or boneshit dismiss. Let me give it 58 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: a try, Let me give it a try. I believe 59 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: it is bound shedditismus. Yeah, yeah, or or the ex 60 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: thematic method, like you said, whatever the heck that even 61 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: means that sounds like some made up nonsense, but yeah, 62 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: he he believed probably uh, in his heart of hearts, 63 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: that this really was a cure all like, like it 64 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: would care whatever ailed you. Um. And so he he's 65 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: set to work trying to hip the world to his 66 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: genius and and this miracle device. Right. And as we 67 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: will find, he wasn't the first person to think of 68 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: something like this. Let's let's dive into Carl's life, how 69 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: he how he got to the life awakener, and see 70 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: how the rest of the world, how the rest of 71 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: the world felt about his magical cure all device. So 72 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: Carl was born on a farm in December of eighteen 73 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: o nine. He was a Prussian citizen. Uh. He was 74 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: a wood turner and mechanic by trade. When he was 75 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: about sixteen, he took up an apprenticeship with a local merchant, 76 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: mainly because his parents wanted him to go legit and 77 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: they were like, Carl, you know, you're sixteen zeroly eighteen hundreds, 78 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: you're basically a man. Now get a job. When his 79 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: father passed away in March of eighteen thirty one, Carl 80 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: left his apprenticeship and he went to study at a 81 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: place called the Felenberg Institute, which at the time was 82 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: quite prestigious. Yeah, it was at Hawful near Baarn in Switzerland. 83 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: Um and that's where he got yeah, which you would 84 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: consider kind of a tech prep education right in in uh, 85 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: in more hands on physical crafts or trades like mechanics, horticulture. 86 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: There was some physics and chemistry thrown in there as well. 87 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: But this did seem like the kind of preparation for 88 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: a life as a craftsman of some sort, or like 89 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: a physical not laborer, but you know, a skilled laborer, 90 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: but someone that would work building things or or you know, 91 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: cultivating the land. Uh. And I want to point out 92 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: it's interesting if you take a look at this device 93 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: we're talking about. In addition to looking like something of 94 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: a of a naughty sex toy, it also looks sort 95 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: of like a short table leg. So I'm wondering if 96 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: his background as a wood turner or his like woodworking 97 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: crafts kind of figured into his design here. I'm pretty 98 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: sure the answer is yes. Or maybe it was just 99 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: a quick way to make use of like some you know, 100 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:06,679 Speaker 1: ununiformed table legs that couldn't use anywhere else. Anyway, I digress. 101 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: Once he got out of this university system, he he 102 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: he was, by the way, a stand up student, absolutely model, 103 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: and he became employed as an instructor at the institute, 104 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: at the very institute that he graduated from UH. And 105 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: during his time there at the bound Schipe, he learned 106 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: of several classical languages. He also required quite a an 107 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: extensive knowledge of you know what, what at the time 108 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: would be considered the cutting edge of medicine, but what 109 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: we now know, you know, was a lot of shooting 110 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: in the dark. Let's say, right, yeah, so this is 111 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: a this is a situation that a lot of us 112 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: will be familiar with. He was not a doctor per se, 113 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: but he was well read, so he would be familiar 114 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: with a lot of the current medical theories of the time. 115 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: He would have an understanding of some aspects of anatomy 116 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: and so on. He volunteered and joined the Prussian military 117 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: and served from about halfway through eighteen thirty two to 118 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: eighteen thirty three. After his time there, he settled down, 119 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: He took a he took a job as a mechanic. 120 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: He got married UH and he had a daughter, and 121 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: then after that his first marriage must not have worked 122 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: out guys, because he eventually started living with another person, 123 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: and he and the second person, Caroline Dorothea Hurchin, had 124 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 1: six sons and five daughters. You heard that right, six sons, 125 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: five daughters. They had eleven children. They got married around 126 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: number four, I believe. Yeah, you know, a lot of 127 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: times these holistic types have a healthy appetite for the 128 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: carnal pleasures. Let us say, and also just you know 129 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: God's gift of magical procreation. Um, look at Wilhelm right 130 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: and orgon energy exactly. It isn't like, I mean, orgon 131 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: energy is essentially, you know, the sexy power from within, right, 132 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: isn't that like harnessed kind of like yeah, it's the uh, 133 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: let's see, let me get a seventies enough voice for this, 134 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: the central powers of the universe in in case he 135 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: maybe throw some disco music on there. Absolutely, Oh my gosh. 136 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: And let's just double back really quick and remind everyone. 137 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: Bound Side had no professional medical training or experience, but 138 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: he felt very confident in his invention of an assortment 139 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: of medical accoustra mot. He He made a smallpox vaccinator 140 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: a breast pump, which I have to say is pretty 141 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: forward thinking because that is still something that is very 142 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: much used today. And you know, obviously motorized is probably 143 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: more comfortable than his original design, but still pretty forward thinking. Um. 144 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: He invented a type of mouth wash and various blood 145 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: cleansing medicines and oils. Um. He invented something called horrifically 146 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: the artificial leech um, which was very similar to the 147 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: design of the resuscitator or the awakener Um, which, by 148 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: the way, Resuscitator and awakener both found like they could 149 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: be nine inch Nails album titles. Just putting that out there, 150 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: I think you're also kind of going through a nine 151 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: inch Nails phase this week. I think you're right then, 152 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: and there's there's nothing wrong with that. Also, I love 153 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt Classic. Yeah, we've got 154 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: to give credit where it's due there. You're right, Uh, 155 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: he would not let something as insignificant as medical qualifications 156 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: stop him from dreaming big. And I do want to say, 157 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: in a somewhat reluctant defense of Coral here that blood letting, 158 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: or the idea of curing and ailment through the forced 159 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: extrusion of various bodily fluids, that's that's a really old idea, 160 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: and it was common in the Middle Ages as well. 161 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: Blood letting was through various times in history, not just 162 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: in Europe, but in China as well, considered a legit 163 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: treatment that could cure any number of conditions from what 164 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: we would call hypertension today two more kind of wou 165 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: woui uh, pseudo scientific stuff like heartsickness. It would definitely 166 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: make you feel a little bit lighter, especially in the head. 167 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: Anyone who's donated blood is familiar with that, oh totally. 168 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: And again this would have been the kind of like uh, 169 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: practical you know, or rather conventional wisdom that he would 170 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: have been reading about. You know, this is just a 171 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: couple of steps beyond like the humors and a lot 172 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 1: of the really really kind of out there dark Ages stuff. 173 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: But bleeding people out was you know, kind of a 174 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: remedy as old as the hills. Uh. And he was 175 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: just kind of capitalizing on that, which which had a 176 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: lot of backing. So he wasn't like going completely out 177 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: on a limb and like making up this this really 178 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: wild stuff. I mean, to his credit, he was doing 179 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: some interesting innovative stuff like I just I just happened 180 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: to I just googled antique breast pumps, um and and 181 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: and they found an article on a HuffPo called two 182 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: hundred years of breast pumps and eighteen images. So he 183 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: definitely was very early to the game. Uh and as 184 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: far as like designing a breast pump, which again is 185 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: a device that's still used today. Again, eleven children, Oh yeah, 186 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: exactly a lot of he's made for tv ad noal. 187 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: It's it's him and his wife freaking out with eleven 188 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: eleven kids, going full Tasmanian devil cartoon reference right, going 189 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: full Tasmanian devil in the house, and he throws up 190 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: his hand and he's like, there's gotta be a better way, 191 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: and there was. It was an antique breast pump. Also, 192 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 1: you know, like I said this, I'm interested too as 193 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: to why the most out there thing we remember him 194 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: for is this life Awakened. I guess because it kind 195 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: of caught on. But we'll get there in a second. 196 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: So back to seven, when he's sitting in his room, 197 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: his his ailing you know, arthritic hand, you know, absolutely 198 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 1: throbbing um and he, you know, is being overtaken by 199 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: these hungry mosquitoes, mosquitoes or gnats or bitey flies, depending 200 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: on the source. Um, mosquitoes doesn't make the most sense. Been, 201 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: You're right, because they do when they bite inject you 202 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: with a chemical that makes it not hurt as much, right, 203 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: so you don't notice it. So it's almost like an 204 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: organic painkiller. The insects injects into you so that you 205 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: don't feel it when it's sucking you know, your blood, 206 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: and then you don't feel it until after it leaves you, 207 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: and that's when you feel itchy because there's an irritant. 208 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: So this happens, he realizes, Ah, whatever's happening about this 209 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: situation is causing me to feel better. Uh. He seems 210 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: to us associated more with I don't know, Ben, It's interesting, 211 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: like is he associating it with the poking, with the 212 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: loss of blood, with the injection of the chemical that 213 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: science probably had not yet recognized at the time. Like 214 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: where do you think his head was? I think it was. 215 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: I think for him it was the the puncture the wound. 216 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: When a mosquito bites, you'll see swelling because of histamine. 217 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,119 Speaker 1: Histamine is a big deal to mosquitoes because it increases 218 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: blood flow and white blood cell count around an affected area, 219 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: causing inflammation and swelling. And that's also why mosquito bites itch. 220 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: The histamine sends a signal to the nerves around the bite. 221 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: Chemicals in mosquito saliva bug spit also prevent blood from clotting. 222 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: We know in in his book about this that he 223 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: published in eighteen sixt we we know that he believed 224 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: he believed you were essentially creating an escape hatch for 225 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: disease in the body by by puncturing it. So he said, 226 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: quote how in a quite simple and natural manner, the 227 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: morbid matter that may be found in the body may 228 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: be extracted from the suffering parts and removed without the 229 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: loss of blood. Uh. He was convinced that recreating a 230 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: mosquito bite on an extreme scale would allow pain and 231 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: various poisons to leak out of the body. He was 232 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: making a new door for disease. I mean, it's just 233 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: a couple of steps removed of like drilling holes in 234 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: the skulls or at least demons, right trep nation. Yeah, 235 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: And so this does catch on and he becomes kind 236 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: of the talk of the town. Uh. There's even like 237 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: a biography written about him by a guy by the 238 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: name I'm laughing because he's just absolutely It's almost like 239 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: he was hired to write the most glowing biography. Imagine 240 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: this guy Albert Volkman, who I'm assuming was just a 241 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: bit of a fanboy. He compared bounce Shite to innovators 242 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: such as Edward Jenner, who discovered vaccination, Joan Gudenberg obviously 243 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: the inventor of the printing press and movable type, and 244 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, uh the war criminal. Oh and and and 245 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: James Watt, inventor of the steam And I think Christapher 246 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: Columbus has known for something other than that, but that's 247 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: usually what comes to mind for me. Um. But yeah, 248 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: this this thing is absolutely chock full of hyperbole, including 249 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: the savior of humanity referring to bounce shite and his 250 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: his his, you know, doing of God's work. Basically. Yeah, 251 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: And to be clear, Carl got a lot of people 252 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: on board this. This treatment would be an example of 253 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: what we call counter irritation techniques, you know, creating inflammation 254 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: in one spot on the body for the purpose of 255 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: relieving it in a different spot. And originally he was 256 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: originally he set like office hours from eleven am to 257 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: noon for one hour, you could come see him and 258 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: have your life awakened euphemistically. But business was booming, and 259 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: eventually he threw up his hands again, just like in 260 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: his infomercial that we made up earlier, and he said, 261 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: there's got to be a better way. So he decided 262 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: and that instead of just administering the life awakener treatment himself, 263 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: he would sell it directly to the public and directly 264 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: to other people who wanted to set up a life 265 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: awakener practice. Well into the twenty century, well into the 266 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, folks, people were trying to cure all sorts 267 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: of stuff with the contraption. We're talking yellow fever, epilepsy, heartbrokenness. 268 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: I I always love the terms the turn of the 269 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: century terms for various various ailments, Like you know, you 270 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: could just make something up and it would sound legit, 271 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: you know, like someone had the trembling Eastwoods, or someone 272 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: had dirty hoof or Judas tooth. Judas Tooth also would 273 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: be a really good nine inch Nail's album. So I'm 274 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: not gonna let go of this um shooting the Judas Tooth. 275 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: That's pretty fantastic. Would that even it doesn't matter, let's 276 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: leave it, leave it leave it to the imagination. But yeah, man, 277 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: I mean he really is like a household name. Like 278 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: he said, he was treating patients himself one on one, 279 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: he kept office hours and all that. He also created, 280 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: uh you know, some of these cure all kind of 281 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: lotions and potions and all that. One that he called 282 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: oileam bound shite, which was an oil that was meant 283 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: to be uh slathered over these little welts and creative 284 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: those blisters that you mentioned, like you said, to essentially 285 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: simulate what would happen with an insect by and if 286 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: you made these blisters and they started, O case, they're 287 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: getting a little gross here, guys. Uh, these blisters would 288 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: start to use pus and and uh he looked at 289 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: that as being the sickness leaving your body. Kelsey Evans 290 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: is an archives at the University of California and San 291 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: Francisco who actually came across a resurrector kit in their 292 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: collection of over a thousand pieces of historical paraphernalia. Um, 293 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: and yeah, he he really want He basically had to 294 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: build a whole new kind of school of medicine, of 295 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: holistic medicine, medical thinking around this device because he had 296 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: to you know, move units. Right, so he called this 297 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: in a burst of uh modesty bound shiteism, which is 298 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: kind of like Casey, you know, before you and I 299 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: got in a podcast when you were leading the Pegramist movement. 300 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: This is true. I mean, you gotta you gotta pick 301 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: a good name for a movement. And what's better than 302 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: just calling yourself out there? Well, I mean it depends 303 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: on the name, case on the case, by the way, 304 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: but pegram is um has a ring to it. Brown 305 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: is um not so much bolon is um. I would 306 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: sign up for that, thanks man, I'm blushing. I would say, uh, 307 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: it's all in the suffix, right, So if you if 308 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: you don't if brown is um doesn't quite it doesn't 309 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: quite puncture your pores, maybe you could go for something like, yeah, 310 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: just make the end fancy brown adivideis m okay, Thanks man, 311 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: I appreciate you trying. Still not sold, still much more. 312 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong ben a knite. But here's the thing. 313 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 1: Here's the thing, um blood letting, you know, self mutilation 314 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: for the purposes of, you know, making yourself feel better 315 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: by hurting yourself. Surprise. Surprise started to kind of wane 316 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: in popularity a little bit as time went on. Uh, 317 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: it was no longer satisfactory for patients to be jabbed 318 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: with oily needles. Uh. They began to kind of look 319 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: at this with a little more suspicious and realize maybe 320 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: this wasn't actually providing the cure all you know, magical 321 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: one stop shop remedy that it was you know, meant to. Yeah. 322 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: His theory is essentially that you can stab people and 323 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: if you stab them the right way in the right place, 324 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: they will get better. That's that's his whole deal. Do 325 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: you guys remember the I Love Lucy bit where Lucy's 326 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: doing a commercial for this like supplement called Vita Meta 327 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: vegamin And it's like a really nasty tasting supplement like 328 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: liquid that has like vitamins, uh, meat and vegetables in it. 329 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: With the big joke is that it's also like alcohol, 330 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: and the director keeps making her take a take a 331 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: you know, swig of it every time she says a 332 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: certain line, So, of course the joke is by the 333 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: end of it, she's absolutely blotto. But one of my 334 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: favorite lines, and the ad copy for this commercial is 335 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: spoon your way to health. Uh. This version for this 336 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: topic today would be stab your way to health. Yeah, 337 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: we also want to thank Charles Sturt University. They have 338 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: They have a great write up of this available to 339 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: read uh free online and Atlas Obscura. I quite like 340 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: the way they explore some of the other quote unquote 341 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: innovators in this field. John Linden, follower of Karl's, also 342 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 1: made some pretty broad claims. He had a book called 343 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: The Manual of the Exanthematic Method of Cure, and he 344 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: said that this could cure tape worms. Here's his reasoning. 345 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: After repeated applications of the life awaken or quote the 346 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: tape worm, the unwelcome guest will soon become disgusted with 347 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: quarters and be compelled to vacate. So Lindon is saying 348 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: that what you're doing is, if your body is a city, 349 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: you're ruining the neighborhood. Yeah. I'm assuming the tapeworm is 350 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: meant to escape through one of these puncture wounds. I 351 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a little vague. I will say 352 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: it's also funny, and this is probably just like urban legend. 353 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: But if you heard of the idea of on of 354 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: purposefully taking a tapeworm to like lose weight, Yes, yeah, yeah, 355 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: it seems very ill advised. Yeah, I I don't have 356 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: personal experience. If anybody has a confirmed case of someone 357 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: let's call it tapeworming. If you have a confirmed case 358 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: of someone purposely tapeworming, then let us know. I've also 359 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: heard that you can apparently coax them out of your 360 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: butt with a piece of cheese. I have not been 361 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: on that particular corner of the internet. Noll. Hey man, 362 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: it's a it's a scary place, and you know, but hey, 363 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: who knows it might be true? Um So tapeworms aside, 364 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about how this device supposedly worked, 365 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: some of the pseudo science or possibly potentially a little 366 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: bit of real science behind it, and also some of 367 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: the marketing behind it, because this is where it gets 368 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: pretty fascinating, Like how much money was he making off 369 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: of this scam? Yeah? So okay, you, first off, the 370 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: engineering here is consistent. The device actually did stuff. But 371 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: whether this stuff it did actually helped people is a 372 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: whole different Uh, is a whole different bag of tape worms. 373 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: So on one end of this staff of this rod, 374 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: you you'll see a little loose movable piece that's connected 375 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: to a very tightly coiled spring. This controls the thirty 376 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: needles that are sheathed inside the sort of barrel shaped 377 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,479 Speaker 1: container at the end. So what you would do if 378 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: you're applying this, you pull back a small handle a 379 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: out two inches to retract those needles and then you 380 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: release it to boom, snap them forward, and they pierced 381 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: the skin. Back to our infomercial, which I'm not letting 382 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: go because it's very appropriate for this, you can buy 383 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: the resuscitator for eight dollars and it's a kit, so 384 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: you don't just get the resuscitator. But wait, there's more. 385 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,479 Speaker 1: You get a little booklet about how cool this method is, 386 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: and you get a bottle of this proprietary blister oil. Yeah, 387 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: but you gotta keep buying the oil. You know, you 388 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: only have to buy the resuscitator one time. You gotta 389 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: keep getting the refills because it is proprietary. Like you said, 390 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: you couldn't just get like linseed oiler and petroleum jelly. 391 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. And this oil, he claimed, would keep 392 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: the wound open longer than it would, you know, if 393 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 1: it was just left to its own devices to heal naturally, 394 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: which would you know, give the wound more time to 395 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: vent the body of impurities or as he referred to 396 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: in the booklet straight up evil, you know, like bad 397 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: body posts. Um. He explained that immediately after being punctured 398 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: by the resuscitator, you you were meant to apply the 399 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: oil with a chicken feather or a small pencil. Huh 400 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: how does that work? You? Uh? This would be I 401 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: was imagining this. I'm speculating here. But let's say let's 402 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: say Casey puts the life awakener. I know you're not 403 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: happy about being the example here, Thank you, Casey. So 404 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: Casey puts his life awaken er, you know, on on 405 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: like his side, let's say lower right Torso kind of 406 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: at the end of the rib cage pops himself with it. 407 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: But he doesn't. He doesn't want to waste his oil. 408 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: He doesn't want to just like slather it in a 409 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: swath across that series of thirty puncture wounds. So instead 410 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: he takes a little pencil and he dips, he dips 411 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: it into that little bottle of oil, and then he 412 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: kind of paints into the pores, into the wounds. And also, 413 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: I'm imagining the alternative implement the chicken feather, you would 414 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: use like the pointy end, like the quill end of 415 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: the chicken feather, to do something very similar. Yeah, yeah, 416 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: I think I think you're on the money there. So 417 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: if you wanted a more concentrated experience, if you just 418 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: didn't have time to carefully paint this irritant oil over 419 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: your new wounds, you could double down. You could go 420 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: hard on the paint. You could put the oil on 421 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,959 Speaker 1: the needles before you pulled the trigger or pulled that 422 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: switch and pop them into your skin, so it would 423 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: become a kind of injection. That comes to us from 424 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: Kelsey Evans, who is an archivist at the University of California, 425 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: San Francisco Library. She I love this is the cool part. 426 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: We don't say this often enough about archivist, but one 427 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: of the weird benefits of working in that kind of uh, 428 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: in that kind of discipline, is that you can just 429 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: run across some very surprising and weird stuff. And totally 430 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: Kelsey ran across one of these kids, especially in San Francisco, 431 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: They're on all kinds of wacky stuff there. Uh. And 432 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: the thing is, you know, again, this was all like 433 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: set out for you in that little pamphlet. Within about 434 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: four to six minutes. According to Andough and bound Stride's 435 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: own words, the skin with a light with an eruption 436 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: resembling millet seeds, and patients would begin to feel a curious, 437 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: crawling sensation. Uh. And again, like you said, for a 438 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: more concentrated experience, dip the needles right on in that oil, 439 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: and you're shove it on in there. And he almost 440 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: as a selling point, likens it to a kind of injection, 441 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: which I think is is interesting. I mean, it was 442 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: a weird time. People were doing all kinds of crazy 443 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: stuff they were used to, like leeching and blood letting. 444 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: This was, honestly, probably a little bit more of a 445 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: use are friendly experienced than just like the old school 446 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: bloodletting where you just like slice yourself with a straight razor. 447 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: That's where the whole barber pole situation came from, because 448 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: I believe barber's were the de facto blood letters. Yeah. Yeah, 449 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: back in the day, if you were uh learned enough 450 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: to cut hair, then you were learned enough to cut 451 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: off arms. That's that's the logic. I know, we're we're 452 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: ragging on Carl a little bit, but blood letting was 453 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: so common that it was applied to world leaders. You know, 454 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: we can't forget that the President of the United States, 455 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: George Washington uh, died after physicians drained nearly forty of 456 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: his blood. No wonder the man was so pale. Uh. Yeah, 457 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: that is wild. And again, like I said, you're you're right. 458 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: We we are ragging a little bit just because it's easy, 459 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: easy target for this era of medical stuff, because it 460 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: just looking at it now through the lens that we 461 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 1: have it all just seems so absurd. But hell, some 462 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: of the some stuff that we do in the West, 463 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: it's kind of absurd. Not to mention just the whole 464 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: like healthcare system in general. That's a topic for another day. 465 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: Neck Ties, look every every anytime you want to rag 466 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: on people from the days of your look around the 467 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: modern day, uh, and and see how much ridiculous stuff 468 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: we do that we've just accepted as normal. If you 469 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: want to learn more about the story of neckties, you 470 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: can see a very embarrassing video of me from my 471 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: brain stuff days on YouTube. But yes, you are absolutely right, Noel, Uh, 472 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: there are so many ridiculous states. Now again, this is 473 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: a legit medical process to coral bone shite. Well, and 474 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: I was also that's kind of what I was getting 475 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: to is this is an innovation over the most barbaric 476 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: versions of what he's doing here. This is probably a 477 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: little more focused version of blood letting because to to 478 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: treat certain diseases, he would target certain parts of the body. Um, 479 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: you know, like if you had, say, a toothache, a 480 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: Judas tooth, a Judas tooth. If you had a Judas tooth, 481 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: you get stabbed in the neck. If you had you know, say, uh, influenza, 482 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: you'd get stabbed like under the armpits or something like that. Um. 483 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: And there was sort of the method to his madness. Uh. 484 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: And again like given the absolute wild wild west ness 485 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: of of the medical profession, you gotta give the guy 486 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: props for being a little bit outside of the box 487 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: in his thinking. Yeah. But also, you know, our hearts 488 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: go out to the people who tried to cure their 489 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: baldness by repeatedly stabbing themselves in the spine. Yeah, there 490 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: was something kind of like uh a lago kit to 491 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: this because you know, anybody who is a fan of Legos, 492 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. By the way, I just built 493 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: the ship from the Mandalorian. It was was a very 494 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: big for me. Um. Anyone's a fan of legos. You know, 495 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: when you're a kid, you get the box and you 496 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: get the instructions, and maybe you build the thing according 497 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: to the instructions. But then you might take it apart 498 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: and build your own thing, right. Uh, that's what people 499 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: were doing with the Life Awakener. They would read the 500 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: pamphlet and they would say, Okay, got it. Here's how 501 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: you apply this to you know, your torso, nape of 502 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: the neck, behind the ear, etcetera, etcetera. But wait, many 503 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: many users said, what happens if I stabbed myself here? Instead, 504 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: you know what happens if I stabbed myself in my 505 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: foot or the inside of my elbow. I'm just picking 506 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: random places. Uh. People wrote to him and told him 507 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: about their results. They would say, I stabbed myself, Uh, 508 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: you know X amount of times, But on the ninth 509 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: stabb I cured, you know, the problem in my knee. 510 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: And I think it's because I found the right place 511 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: to stab and Karl was all about it, and I 512 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: gotta I gotta ask you the elephant in the room here, 513 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: I'm seeing in the list of the list of ailments 514 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: that this thing was used to treat things like syphilis 515 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: and ganarea. Where did you stab yourself for those m hm, 516 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: right in the area or is there some other magical 517 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: spot that targets the nether regions? You know, that is 518 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: unclear to me. Also, folks, we need to just put 519 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: everything on the table here. Uh. The none of the 520 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: three of us have tried the life awakener, so maybe 521 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: we are not being fair. Maybe we need to draw 522 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: straws and if someone get some firsthand experience. Thankfully, the 523 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: three of us also do not have syphilis, thank god. 524 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: Ridiculous history syphilis syphilis free. It's true, I mean it is. 525 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: It is one of the most historical ailments. Enough, uh, 526 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: my goodness. But yeah, you know, to your point, man, 527 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: I imagine that based on what we know about what 528 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: part of the body you would uh you would treat 529 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: for toothache or for you know, cramps or something. I 530 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 1: imagine it would be applied to us some sensitive areas. 531 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,479 Speaker 1: And it feels it sounds incredibly painful, it sure does. 532 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: And and and I've got to say a lot of 533 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: this like you know, specificity around Like okay, if you 534 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: want to this kind of ailment you you injected here. 535 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: This seems like the kind of stuff that someone would 536 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 1: make up to sound like they know what they're talking about, uh, 537 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: when in fact it's all pretty arbitrary. Just like you know, 538 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: in general, this device was I think we can pretty 539 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: much accept and like we said, it really did. The 540 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,720 Speaker 1: whole craze surrounding the Resuscitator started to die down because 541 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: people weren't as into blood letting and more. And not 542 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: to mention, it was getting uh bootlegged a lot. There 543 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: were kind of a lot of Resuscitator clones hitting the market. Um. 544 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: But you know, up until the nineteen forties you could 545 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: still get copies of bound Shite's booklet that came with 546 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: the kit, so you know it was still somewhat in 547 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: use by some. And we need to give some context here. 548 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: So we said, let's say mid eighteen fifty four or so, 549 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: the Resuscitator is near the height of its popularity, and 550 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,879 Speaker 1: you can get that kit for eight dollars. But how 551 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 1: much money is Carl making here? It's time for the 552 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: inflation calculator. You had to have the last boop, didn't 553 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: you bet you had to have the last You were 554 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: doing it too, We were booping chicken. We played chicken 555 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: eight dollars that's two d and forty eight dollars, So 556 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: this is not an insignificant amount of money, but also 557 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: not too far off from like what we would see 558 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: questionable medical devices today, costing things like you know, infrared 559 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: radiation things for your lower back or whatever. There's a 560 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: lot of those that you see now that definitely are questionable. 561 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 1: Um uh. And that's the thing this this was very 562 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,879 Speaker 1: very much discredited. But there's also an important differentiator about 563 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: this week. I think it's probably my fault. I've sort 564 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: of been glumping it in with the idea of blood letting, 565 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: but it wasn't really like about blood letting at all. 566 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: It was about irritating your skin to make these blisters, 567 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: and then the pustules that leaked out of your body 568 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 1: or whatever would be the eradication of the of the 569 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,960 Speaker 1: you know, impurities. So it wasn't targeting the blood so 570 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,279 Speaker 1: much as it was targeting the skin. Yeah, but you know, 571 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: I would I would defend Noll the null earlier in 572 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: the show today because this is clearly descended from the 573 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: belief of silvers and blood letting. Uh. It's just you're 574 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: right in the idea that the pus in the blisters 575 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,359 Speaker 1: was thought to be the diseases leaving the body. But 576 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 1: it's still saws a lot in common with blood letting 577 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: of physiologically. If you are wondering, folks, No, there is 578 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 1: nothing that ties stabbing your skin and forming a blister 579 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: with healing these sorts of illnesses. What is a plucky 580 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: inventor to do when there are so many imitators swimming 581 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: in your wake. Well, in Carl's case, you had to 582 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: double down on that proprietary oil, so his his irritant 583 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,799 Speaker 1: oil oleum bound shite. He guarded the recipe like the 584 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 1: way that Coca Cola guards their rest, which is a 585 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: great idea for an episode. But but but we eventually 586 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: found out what it is. Uh. In nineteen seven, one 587 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: of Carl's descendants disclosed the composition of the oil to 588 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: a pharmaceutical company. It is mustard and pepper oil, tansy 589 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: pepper olives, and something called Croton oil. I don't know 590 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 1: croton oil, and I'm a bit of an essential oil 591 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 1: uh aficionado, So this is obviously not widely in use anymore. Yeah, 592 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 1: it's a poisonous, viscous liquid from a tree native to India. 593 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: No fun, little self poisoning to cure what ails you 594 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: self mutilation and poisoning. This is a nine inch nails episode. 595 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:56,279 Speaker 1: So this did go into decline. While you could find 596 00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: the booklet up into the nineteen forties in germ Any, 597 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: the international sphere lost interest. It would be very rare 598 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 1: for you to find one in the US from like 599 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties on or something. So what happens to 600 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,439 Speaker 1: Carl after this? Remember he was charging some pretty high 601 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: prices for his inventions, and this added up. He became 602 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 1: pretty well to do. He moved on up to the 603 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,319 Speaker 1: east side of the socioeconomic scale. He became what we 604 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,760 Speaker 1: would call no Vourich new rich, and uh he tried 605 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 1: to add I don't know, some swag, some credibility to 606 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: his reputation with the upper class. So he wanted he 607 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: wanted to do the thing a lot of the Novoich do, 608 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,280 Speaker 1: which is attained the respect and acceptance of the old money. 609 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: And he went hamd with it. And unfortunately that is 610 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,800 Speaker 1: sort of a fool's errand doesn't have been I believe, 611 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,320 Speaker 1: you know, I I believe so not to not to 612 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 1: wax two philosophical, but one thing history has proven is 613 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 1: that if you want the acceptance of others. The first 614 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,520 Speaker 1: thing you should do is work on accepting yourself. Oh 615 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,400 Speaker 1: that's get advice, Ben, that's very good advice. That is 616 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,720 Speaker 1: the app that is our that is our ridiculous history, 617 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: affirmation of the day. There we go, casey, can we 618 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: get more? You know? Think? Okay? Yeah, not not close 619 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: enough to get a suit. So bound Schei did die eventually, 620 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: despite his best efforts to look forever, uh, you know, 621 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,479 Speaker 1: with self mutilation and poisoning on October one, eighteen seventy three, 622 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,480 Speaker 1: um as as a result of an ailment of the 623 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,920 Speaker 1: heart that he apparently was powerless to control. Um and 624 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,439 Speaker 1: it may have actually been caused by his diets. Yeah, 625 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,759 Speaker 1: so busy stabbing himself in the neck, he forgot to 626 00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: curtail the red meat. And after he passed away, his 627 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: widow and his children carried on the business. The Life 628 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:09,279 Speaker 1: Awakener was being produced all the way up to nineteen four, 629 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,439 Speaker 1: and it may have continued in production past that year 630 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:19,320 Speaker 1: had the building not been destroyed in a bombing attack 631 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,799 Speaker 1: by Allied forces. Now we know what a lot of 632 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,800 Speaker 1: a lot of folks are thinking in the audience today. Guys, 633 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,120 Speaker 1: I'm sold you're saying I am going to stab myself 634 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,760 Speaker 1: to wellness. I need a life awakener right now. Uh, 635 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: you have persuaded me that this is the bleeding edge 636 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: of medicine. Where can I get this treatment today? Right? No? Casey, 637 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: don't you guys think like, what would you say? Easily 638 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,240 Speaker 1: of the folks listening are sold on this, right. Surely 639 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: there's some sort of medieval spa you can go to, 640 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,239 Speaker 1: you know, like an experiential thing, you know, where they 641 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: cover you with leeches and stab you in the neck 642 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:07,320 Speaker 1: with a weird, needily chaired leg for a thousand dollars. 643 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: If you go to Switzerland, uh, you can find a 644 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: clinic that still offers this treatment. They call it acupuncture 645 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,440 Speaker 1: of the West. It is similar to what you describe 646 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:26,800 Speaker 1: their no um and they will explain the process in detail, 647 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: so you know what you're getting into. Uh. And it's 648 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,719 Speaker 1: it's an evolution of the same idea. You know, you 649 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,880 Speaker 1: irritate the skin, you apply an oil, you let the 650 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: blisters grow, thirty six hours pass, and then you assess 651 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,160 Speaker 1: the blisters. So if you're sold on this, uh, and 652 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,000 Speaker 1: if you happen to go to Switzerland, let us know 653 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: how it goes. Feel free? Not to send pictures, but 654 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,200 Speaker 1: we would we would enjoy hearing this story. Uh no, 655 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 1: I think that sit now. I do want to say, 656 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: you know, I've I don't feel like this inventor thought 657 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,200 Speaker 1: of himself as a sneak, oil man or a grifter. 658 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 1: I think he thought he was doing medicine. I think 659 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,000 Speaker 1: he was a true believer. You're right, then, I I 660 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 1: do agree, because he had a history of you know, 661 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,160 Speaker 1: like I said, I mean, we said from the start 662 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,759 Speaker 1: a lot of his inventions were pretty smart. This just 663 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,960 Speaker 1: happened to be the one that took off and clearly 664 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,720 Speaker 1: you know, the least actually effective. Um. But it reminds 665 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 1: it does remind me in some ways. Uh. You know, 666 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: holistic medicine in general. Sometimes it gets a bad rap 667 00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 1: in the West, um, because of our focus on a 668 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,359 Speaker 1: pill for every ill and all that stuff. Uh So 669 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,719 Speaker 1: I think there's a middle ground where like there is 670 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: a place for holistic medicine or just taking care of 671 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,640 Speaker 1: oneself and like mindfulness and just you know, meditation and 672 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,320 Speaker 1: things like that to just be a better, more whole 673 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,400 Speaker 1: human being. But it does remind me of things like cupping, 674 00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,800 Speaker 1: which is as a very interesting uh technique where you know, 675 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 1: certain massage therapist types take these little suction cups and 676 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,279 Speaker 1: you know, little really pump them on your skin and 677 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,279 Speaker 1: they leave these big, nasty, giant, hicky things and supposedly, 678 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,200 Speaker 1: you know, rids you of impurities or whatever. I don't 679 00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,359 Speaker 1: know if I buy it, but it's very popular and 680 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,240 Speaker 1: it's something that's still available as a spa service pretty widely. 681 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:23,480 Speaker 1: And with this we close today's episode The Tale of 682 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: the Life Awakener. Have you seen one of these in 683 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,480 Speaker 1: real life? If so, let us know, And let us 684 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: know also some of your other favorite, uh weird medical 685 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,359 Speaker 1: treatments of the past. How do I let you guys know? 686 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,239 Speaker 1: You might be asking yourself. Well, we're pretty easy to 687 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,800 Speaker 1: find on the internet. We like to recommend our Facebook 688 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: group page, Ridiculous Historians. You can also find us on 689 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,920 Speaker 1: various social meads. As individuals. You can indeed, I am 690 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: at how Now Noel Brown on Instagram exclusively, and you 691 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,040 Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at ben Bull and hs 692 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,200 Speaker 1: W you can find me on Instagram at Ben Boland. 693 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:06,879 Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our super producer Casey Pegram, who, 694 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,800 Speaker 1: just to be very clear, has never used a life awakener. 695 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,960 Speaker 1: And thanks also of course Alex Williams, who composed our 696 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: amazing soundtrack. Huge thanks to Christopher Asciotis who will be 697 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,520 Speaker 1: joining us not only in spirit, but in the flesh 698 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,040 Speaker 1: very very soon. Really looking forward to that one and 699 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 1: missing Chris Eaves Jeff Coats. Check out her podcast This 700 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,799 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a daily nugget of wisdom in 701 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,840 Speaker 1: your podcast feed. Check it out. It's a delight. Also 702 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,280 Speaker 1: j dot Ill the podcast featuring the wonderful and talented 703 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 1: Miss Jill Scott, executive produced by Eaves. Also huge thanks 704 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,640 Speaker 1: to our research associate Extraordinaire Gabe Lousier. Gotta get him 705 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,600 Speaker 1: back on the show too. And Jonathan Strickland, the notorious Quister. Uh. 706 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,399 Speaker 1: He can stay away for as long as he likes, 707 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,400 Speaker 1: but I have a feeling he'll be popping up sometime 708 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,320 Speaker 1: in the near future as well. One last note, folks, 709 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,360 Speaker 1: of course, none of this tribute considered medical advice. Just 710 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,920 Speaker 1: gotta tech from our legal team making neck clear and uh. 711 00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: And also, hey, if if you're if you're feeling off, 712 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,800 Speaker 1: you feel like you might have a physiological whalement or concern, 713 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,080 Speaker 1: go to a doctor before you recreationally stab yourself. We'll 714 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:26,880 Speaker 1: see you next time folks. For more podcasts from My 715 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: Heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 716 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,800 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.