Sawbones: Ben Franklin

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ben Franklin may not have have been a doctor, but he still had a massive impact on the medical field in his time. What were his contributions? And was he ever actually president? You'll have to listen to find out! Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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0:00.0	Saubones 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.
0:25.0	Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.
0:33.0	Two, three, we came across a pharmacy with a doing that's lost it out. We've pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.
0:56.0	The medicines, the medicines, the escalant macaw for the mouth.
1:03.0	Wow! Hello, everybody and welcome to Saubones, a very, very first guy to medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.
1:14.0	And I'm Sydney McAroy.
1:20.0	Listen, went to your, your redding terminal market today.
1:33.0	It's gorgeous. It was great. Second time there. Not to brag, but we've been twice. It's not a big deal.
1:42.0	It was great. We ate way too much food. There are like lots of, I was like, well, there's got to be like a list of what are the best things we should eat.
1:52.0	Well, I mean, there's like hundreds of lists of this. So we tried them all.
1:57.0	And while I was there, this is a done exaggeration. I saw no fewer than three frame photos of owners of stores with Ben Franklin.
2:10.0	And it's like, you guys know, right? I mean, I don't want to cast judgment. Like, you know, it got around, right?
2:19.0	It's not the real one, right? You know that, right?
2:23.0	That's not that Ben Franklin. But it was very inspiring because Ben Franklin, among many things that he dabbled in and was an expert on, was medicine.
2:39.0	Franklin dabbled a lot in the medical sciences. And so I thought that could be, this is actually Justin's idea. I don't want to take home credit.
2:50.0	This could be a really good show topic in connection to the area because even though Franklin was not from Philadelphia, he was from Boston.
2:58.0	Philadelphia became like his.
3:02.0	Sorry. I did not blame like when your time I'm sorry.
3:10.0	I'm sorry. I mean, he was born there. I can't stop. I can't control that. But he came here by choice.
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