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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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One of my favourite books of the year is Jerry Kantor's Sane Asylums. He joins us this week for an equally-scintillating episode.
We explore how homeopathy works, the 19th century heyday of homeopathic psychiatry -including the successful treatment of Abraham Lincoln's widow's 'incurable madness' with three months of homeopathy. And we find out just how it was homeopathy was erased from history and why. (Spoiler: Money.)
Really great stuff.
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0:00.0 | The This week we are welcoming to the show Jerry M Kanto. Now Jerry I'm trying a new thing with the |
0:20.3 | intros where I attempt the introduction of a new guest and then they correct |
0:27.2 | me for the stuff that I've either missed out or got wrong or so on so we we're going to begin. Jerry is a author of course of a book we're about to talk about. |
0:37.3 | He is an acupunctureist. He is a homeopath. He is the first acup, this this is really cool, first acupuncturist to receive an academic |
0:46.2 | appointment to the Harvard Medical Schools Department of Anesthesiology. |
0:50.1 | That's really cool. |
0:51.4 | And author of Saintainesylums and interpreting chronic illness, |
0:57.3 | The Toxic Relationship Cure and autism reversal toolbox. |
1:01.3 | What have I missed out? |
1:07.3 | Oh, you missed out a book I wrote under a pseudonym, so it's understandable. |
1:16.4 | It's a serious homeopathy book in the disguise of a Yiddish entertainment called Hamish your homeopathy, the Schmandrich's guide to remedying Yiddish kwetches. |
1:20.3 | Why would you write that under a pseudonym? |
1:26.0 | Because the pseudonym is itself a joke. A hymn yunkel means nobody. |
1:28.0 | And that's a kind of a Yiddish in joke. |
1:30.0 | So it just seemed appropriate. |
1:32.0 | Yeah, nice one. |
1:33.0 | Awesome. |
1:34.0 | Well, like I said before we hit record, this is one of the most interesting books I've read this year. |
1:40.0 | So I'm really looking forward to talking to you about it. |
1:43.0 | But before we get to it, you're a first-time guest, Jerry, |
1:45.4 | which means you get the first-time guest question. |
1:48.2 | Were you a weird kid? |
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