Historical Hysteria

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How far has medicine come from the days of cutting holes in peoples heads and pouring maggots into their wounds? Not much.

From the first holes carved into our heads 8000 years ago, to today. Come explore the enigmatic history of brain surgery

After the heady days of orphan torture, modern medicine moved onwards to the magical world of drugs! And yet the one of the fathers of drugs has been discreetly shoved into a corner and forgotten to protect the reputation of everything before and since. Why not find out more and listen right now to the magical modern medical world of Drugs!

Modern medecine today is our gleaming city on a hill, no more constrained by the dark days of leeches as panacea's. But how did we move from the world of leeches and maggots to our modern understandings of the human body? Over a pile of corpses.

Did you know that Pop Culture has a problem with History? Because history is often, stupid. Full of slap stick shenanigans and silly styles. In this weeks episode we are exploring parts of history that are simply to silly to ever properly be replicated in pop culture, from Abraham Lincolns voice to the Spanish inquisition, and the ultra masculine Spartans and Vikings. Find out about histories sill...

From Washingtons teeth to the freedom of speech, come tear down the beautiful fascades of popular American history and learn about how everyone you ever admired was a jerk and every idea you hold sacrosanct is based on lies.

Welcome to the wacky world of history where everything you thought was true is actually a magnificent lie, and all your heroes turn out to be horrible monsters. Welcome to the world of Historical Hysteria.