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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production by Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick, and we're back with Part 2 in our series about healing waters,

the belief held by many people throughout history, that you could heal your body from illness,

and restore your health by bathing or by immersing yourself. Sometimes just in hot or cold waters,

sometimes in the waters of a special spring or location. Now, in the last episode, we discuss

the prehistoric origins of bathing, as well as some evidence of ideas that became attached to bathing

in the ancient world. For example, a ritual and religious ideas about purity. You can see this in

the ritual bathing by priests in ancient Egypt, or as ritual washing bathing procedures outlined

in the Bible. And then also the segue into the belief that became especially popular among the

physicians of ancient Greece and Rome, that you could cure diseases by immersing the body in

hotter, cold water, often, though not always connected to explanations based on the theory of

the four humors. In today's episode, I wanted to kick things off by returning to talk about a few

more aspects of a paper we discussed in the previous episode. This was the paper Water and Spaws

in the Classical World, in the journal Medical History 1990 by Ralph Jackson, who was at the time

a scholar working for the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities at the British

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