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Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the medicines that escalate my cop for the mouth.

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a marital tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

Sydney, I'm surprised by your lack of a computer, because usually that is an iconic image for me personally, is sitting across from the table and you got the computer up and you're aiming to just podcast your butt off.

I know. And I have all my stickers on it. I feel like that's like I have all my statements right there.

Got it all.

No, well, we're doing something a little different. I mean, not really that different. It's the same old, like I'm talking about old medicine stuff.

But as I've talked about on the show before, our listeners are very kind to send me books occasionally.

Especially old medical books, which I really love because one, they make great material for research and everything for the show we do.

But two, sometimes it's so of a time that it what is in it tells you more about the time.

You know what I mean? Then the information itself.

And we received this book recently from one of our listeners, Olivia. Thank you, Olivia.

I was very excited to receive the intimate side of a woman's life by Leona W. Chomers.

This is an older medical text medical medical medical medical.

It is it was a first printed in 1937.

Okay, so last printed in 1942.

And just try it up after that presumably.

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