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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Medicinal Tattoos

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tattoos (usually) look cool, but did you know they've also been used throughout history to treat illness? It's true! This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the history of medicinal tattoos. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Transcript

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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, Tommy 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 Saubones, Maryland, Miss Guy, to Medicine. I'm your co-host, Justin McAroy.

1:10.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:12.0

Well folks, the great that we're sitting in, I find ourselves ensnared in something we're parenting situation currently.

1:20.0

One of many.

1:22.0

We did this live show.

1:23.0

There are so many parenting situations.

1:24.0

This is an ongoing situation that we don't know how to extract ourselves from.

1:29.0

We went to the Austin Aquarium during our live shows in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas.

1:34.0

We had a lovely time.

1:35.0

Lovely time. And there was a mermaid at the aquarium who if you gave her a gold coin, would give you a tattoo, a sparkly.

1:42.0

Yeah, like a glitter tattoo, not an actual tattoo.

1:45.0

Now Charlie got one of these and just fell in love with it. She just adored this tattoo.

1:51.0

Which of course is just it's glue and glitter on her arm glitter on her arm, but she adored it and couldn't bear the thought of anything happening to it.

1:58.0

So we got in the habit of wrapping her arm and ran rap when she got into the bathtub.

2:04.0

So our kids got a dirty arm is what we're saying.

2:06.0

Inevitably when swimming time came around as it warmed up, this tattoo started to be removed.

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