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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Rufus Weaver and Harriet Cole

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the 1880s, anatomist Rufus Weaver worked meticulously to extract and mount the human nervous system for study. The nervous system came from a woman named Harriet Cole; but how was it actually obtained? Dr. Sydnee dissects this medical mystery, which is a telling story of who in history is celebrated and who is often forgotten. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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0:00.0

Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:24.0

Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

Hello, everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a Marl tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:10.0

I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:11.0

And Sydney, it occurs to me that I don't know what our episode is about. Normally I would do a sort of like charming...

1:17.0

There I say, I mean, can I say, folks, the intro that sort of like obliquely leads into your topic. I don't know what it is though. It occurs to me.

1:27.0

Well, it occurs to me that you don't listen very closely because I ran this topic by you two days ago and said, do you think this would be a good idea?

1:37.0

We're back in this. We're back in this year. Is this what you're saying? We're going to unpack this year right now.

1:41.0

But the problem is we were watching Love Island and you can't pay attention to me when all those attractive British people are falling in love.

1:51.0

Yep, falling out of love. Having a good chat.

1:56.0

Good chat. Good band-treats.

1:59.0

I mean the bands.

2:00.0

I have the case of the bands and middle school ones. It was rough. It was rough couple of weeks. Good crack. Not after the bands. No, actually not that crack quite some time.

2:12.0

Not that kind of crack. The, you know, the one with I in there. I did mention it's okay. You don't have to know anything about it.

2:19.0

You know what? Maybe that's appropriate because this is a bit of a mystery.

2:22.0

A bit of a mystery. And I will say I think that while the topic is more just about like this sort of historical mystery that is medical, that is also medical in nature.

2:34.0

It does get into some slightly heavier things to think about in terms of what we know about history and who we know about and whose stories get told and whose voices are easily found.

2:51.0

In the annals of history and whose voices aren't. It's not I don't preface this to say that this is like a depressing episode.

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