Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Medicine is science.

Oftentimes it can take years of research and trials for a new medication or procedure

to make it to patients on a wider scale.

Yet, that doesn't stop people from hunting for miracle cures.

It was one in a million treatments that bypassed the lengthy safety tests mainstream drugs

undergo.

Before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, there were almost no regulations in place to prevent

doctors or snake oil salesmen from pedaling whatever tinctures they thought might heal

someone.

And for hundreds of years, the science behind medicine was, well, questionable.

King Charles II, for example, was no stranger to medical curiosity.

As a child, he'd been tutored by William Harvey, a surgeon on the cutting edge of the

field who had been the first person to detail how the heart pumped blood throughout the body.

Charles studied many scientific subjects growing up, including chemistry and physics.

But when it came medicine, especially later in life, he rarely turned anything down.

Due to his poor health in the weeks before his death, Charles underwent all manner of

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