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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 three of our series on the Healing Water,

is where we have been focusing on beliefs held by many people throughout history,

that you could heal various diseases by bathing, by either immersing yourself in the waters of

say warm or hot mineral springs, or sometimes maybe by drinking those waters. Also,

we talked about the medicinal theories on which some of these practices were based, especially in

the ancient world, such as the ancient Greek and Roman beliefs in humoral theory. Also, in the last

episode, we talked, there was a very interesting digression you had, Rob, about supposed healing

springs that have creatures living in them, such as little bloodworms or fish trapped in the hot

waters. Yeah, it was liquid habit. Here in Atlanta, we have a science festival here as well, the

Atlanta Science Festival, and a very cold morning over the weekend, my family went to a talk on carnivorous

plants about some of the various carnivorous plants that are found internally in the

the southeastern United States. At the end of it, the children present got to feed the carnivorous

plants, and they were feeding them bloodworms. It comes around. I was like, I know these guys,

I was just talking about these guys. These would be, of course, the larval forms of little flies,

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