Sawbones: The Cholera Riots

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Fear that the government and doctors were allied in a grand conspiracy to oppress the populace was at a fever pitch. The people took to the streets to prove that they would not abide by quarantine, that they would defy the powers that be and go on about their daily lives. The year is 1831. The disease is cholera.

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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.
0:22.0	You're worth it.
0:25.0	Alright, time 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	The medicines, the medicines that escalate my cop for the mouth.
1:03.0	Wow!
1:05.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a marital tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.
1:11.0	And I'm Sydney McAroy.
1:12.0	And we're in a weird period of the whole COVID thing feeling kind of...
1:19.0	What period hasn't been weird, Justin?
1:22.0	True, yes. No, we haven't really gotten to a new normal heavily. It's just kind of a shifting tour.
1:29.0	It's okay. Life has changed.
1:32.0	Some people are still very much on board with the whole reality of the situation that we find ourselves in.
1:40.0	And some people are kind of pushing up against that and trying to find some other ways to maybe think about truth.
1:50.0	Some other ways to think about truth is a very generous way of putting it.
1:55.0	I did my best.
1:56.0	I think that that man, that's a perfect lead-in to what we are talking about here.
2:02.0	Well thanks because that's what it was designed as.
2:05.0	Well you didn't know, you don't know the whole topic, so it's funny how spot on you are.
2:10.0	Thank you, I guess. You normally are.
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