Sawbones: Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Before everyone hits the back-to-school grind, we’ve got a fun episode about Freddy Pharkas. A historical figure of frontier medicine? No, a video game character from 1993. Justin and Dr. Sydnee talk about how a farmer-cist was made, as well as the real and fake medicine Freddy doled out on the frontier. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/

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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.
0:07.2	It's for fun.
0:08.7	Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?
0:14.2	We think you've earned it.
0:15.8	Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.
0:22.6	You're worth it.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.5	Tommy is about some books.
0:30.6	One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out
0:52.0	Pushed on through the broken glass And had ourselves a look around
0:56.0	The medicines, the medicines
0:58.0	That I scallet McCorm
1:00.0	For the mouth
1:01.0	Hello
1:04.0	And welcome to Sawbones
1:06.0	A Marital Tour
1:08.0	of Misguided Medicine
1:10.0	I'm your co-host Justin Justin McRoy. And I'm
1:12.7	Sydney McRoy. So it's been a weird
1:14.6	week for me. We're a
1:16.7	couple weeks. Yeah. You know, it's been a weird couple weeks
1:20.7	and we're about to go on
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