Sawbones: Tetanus

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's a myth that tetanus is only found on rusty metal. What really matters is that a wound that is a dirty, deep puncture wound could to introduce the bacteria into the body. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about the long history of humans and tetanus, what it does to a body, and why maybe it's not a great idea to garden barefoot. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ "The John Birch Society" by The Chad Mitchell Trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCYSVZhPoU National Immigration Project: https://nipnlg.org/about/who-we-are

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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 you're worth it
0:25.6	all right song is about some books one two one two three four
0:32.6	four We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out.
0:52.7	Pushed on through the broken glass
0:54.5	and had ourselves a look around
0:56.4	the medicines, the medicines that ask
0:59.1	at McCrott McCroth for the mouth.
1:04.3	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones.
1:06.8	A marital tour of misguided medicine.
1:08.4	I'm your co-host, Justin McElroy.
1:09.9	And I'm Sidney McRoy. And Sid, what a dramatic day we had this week out in the garden.
1:15.9	I did.
1:16.5	It was quite a perilous situation out there.
1:18.9	I did have a dramatic episode out in the garden.
1:21.5	That's the inspiration for this week's episode of Sawbones.
1:26.3	So I tend to garden barefoot.
1:29.7	That's not good.
1:31.3	Good.
1:31.6	Don't do that.
1:32.5	Don't do that.
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