March 25, 2019
44 – The Great Smog
What was behind the mysterious increase in lung cancer deaths at the turn of the 20th century? The first of a three-parter investigating the cigarette-smoking...
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February 18, 2019
43 – The Cursed
What killed Charles II of Spain, the inbred monarch whose autopsy famously showed a heart the size of a peppercorn, a head full of water,...
January 14, 2019
42 – The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale stands as one of the most important reformers of 19th century medicine -- a woman whose belief in the power of reason and...
January 7, 2019
169: Million-year-old food
Dr. Bill Schindler walks us through 3+ million years of diet history
December 17, 2018
41 – Animal Magnetism
Mesmerism has had an outsize influence on medicine, despite the rapid rise and fall of its inventor Dr. Franz Mesmer and hostility from the medical...
October 8, 2018
39 – The White Plague
Tuberculosis has been humanity’s oldest and greatest killer. Starting at the turn of the nineteenth century, the White Plague was decimating entire generations in the...
September 10, 2018
0 – Introduction
Many podcasts start with an “Episode 0”, basically a mission statement for the podcast. Well, better late than never! This episode explores why I make...
September 10, 2018
38 – Blood on the Tracks (PopMed #2)
The first population study in history was born out of a dramatic debate involving leeches, “medical vampires,” professional rivalries, murder accusations, and, of course, bloodletting,...
August 6, 2018
37 – Let It Bleed (PopMed #1)
For thousands of years, bloodletting was the standard of care for any number of medical conditions, but at the turn of the nineteenth century, often...
