Sawbones: Dr. Willard Bliss

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

It was probably the destiny of Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss to become a medical professional, although his career was a real rollercoaster of beliefs and practices. But he obtained the most notoriety for bringing his questionable treatments to one of the most important people in the United States – President James Garfield. 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.
0:14.4	We think you've earned it.
0:15.9	Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction
0:19.8	from that weird growth. You're worth it.
0:24.0	All right,
0:28.0	so I'm about some books.
0:30.0	One, two, one to the three, four. We came across a pharmacy with a window's a window's to win the windows blasted out. Pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the medicines
0:58.5	that Estelle and macabre for the mouth.
1:01.1	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones a marital tour of misguided
1:07.8	medicine I'm your co-host Justin McElroy and I'm Sydney McElroy and I am so delighted to be with you here now Sydney recording
1:16.3	I have two monitors set up now I know it's very intimidating because a hot topic of
1:21.2	conversation it is well my brothers are making fun of me because it looked like I was looking off camera, but really I was just looking at the other monitor.
1:28.0	I don't know why you need two monitors. Well, that's a great question, Sydney.
1:33.0	I don't have one.
1:34.0	Okay, let me put it to you this way.
1:36.0	Do you have multiple drawers for your clothes?
1:39.0	Yes.
1:40.0	Okay, well, websites are like the clothes of my mind, and I need to have a lot of them open at once.
1:46.5	Websites are the clothes of your mind?
1:48.6	Yes, and you got to have a lot of them open at once.
1:51.2	I don't know what to do for 20 websites going at once. I don't know what to do for
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