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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Thalassotherapy

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

TikTok has become enthralled with the idea of Thalassotherapy... which is basically going to the ocean to feel better. Dr. Sydnee talks about the history of this "sea cure" and Dr. Richard Russell, the man who popularized it in the second half of the eighteenth century. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ 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.

0:23.6

All right. Tommy is about some books. One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out.

0:52.2

Pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the

0:58.0

medicines that ask all let McCorm for the mouth.

1:05.1

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a marital tour of Misguided Medicine.

1:09.3

I'm your co-host, Justin McRoy.

1:11.1

And I'm Sid, what's happening this week?

1:15.6

What are we doing?

1:16.4

I feel like it's been such a chaotic few weeks on Sawbones here with all the travel and the Max Fun Drive.

1:22.7

And then everything's just been so wild at the Macquarie House.

1:25.1

And I've been, yeah, I've been really busy with my day job.

1:30.3

Yeah, your day job, and your, the new overnight shelter that you've been working on that you start talking about last week here in Huntington.

1:37.6

That's right, Justin.

1:37.9

You've got a lot cooking.

1:38.7

I know.

1:39.1

It's been really busy.

1:40.4

And on top of that, our listeners were thoughtful enough to point something out that I missed on our last episode.

1:47.1

Yeah. And you promised me you weren't going to be spicy about this.

1:50.2

I'm not spicy. You're all right. And I missed something. And I am fallible. I am merely human.

1:55.9

We had a question on our last episode, weird medical questions about how when you're making pottery,

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