Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast

of the year.

My name is Dan Schreiver.

I'm sitting here with Aniches Insdie, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.

Once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last

seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with you, Aniches Insdie.

Yes, my fact this week is that old European malaria remedies included throwing the patient

headfirst into a bush in the hope that he'd get out quickly enough to leave the fever

behind.

Yeah, just got tangled up in there, can't get out and you scarper.

That was how you did it.

This was used all the way up until the 17th century, basically until the 1600s, no one

knew how to cure malaria and so they just made up a lot of wacky shit.

I wonder what they thought happened to the malaria in the bush.

Did it stay there?

If you went through a walk through the bush, you could then take up.

It is a bit like that so it's called passing through and it's kind of an old folklore thing.

They did it for lots of different diseases.

Sometimes it would be a hole in a tree or a hole in a stone or something like that and

you would pass through the hole and the idea is you would leave the disease behind you.

And naturally it happened in America, they didn't perhaps they didn't have trees or stones,

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