Medical historian Richard Barnett joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about medical history. What is cupping and why is it so popular? Who was Typhoid Mary? What is the Iron Lung and how does it work? Answers to these questions and many more await on History of Medicine Support.
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00:00 – History of Medicine Support
00:20 – 300% mortality rate? Just scream, it’ll be fine
02:02 – The science of cupping
02:56 – Don’t raw dog your milk, folks
05:09 – Nothing like a cold radioactive tonic on a summer’s day
06:23 – Blowing smoke up someone’s backside can be a lifesaver
07:07 – The most controversial Nobel Prize winner
09:36 – Larva-ing your best life
10:37 – The Iron Lung
11:59 – Chill, just lose a few pints of blood
12:49 – Who was Typhoid Mary?
14:10 – Trepanning, absolutely mind-boggling
15:09 – Those who can, do
15:53 – The first plastic surgery? ~600 BC
16:53 – Germ Theory 🤝 sterilization
18:32 – Short back and septoplasty please barber
19:18 – Alexander Fleming broke the mould
21:26 – Mad Hatter’s toxic trait? Hg
22:05 – Vaccines and the measles resurgence
24:01 – Why is it called X-ray?
24:50 – Couching, cataracts and cocaine
26:30 – Nature’s bloodletting
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Bottom line: Get your vaccines!
Intense pain can kill you actually.
Of course cupping has no real beneficial effects, they are just bursting blood vessels
How many takes do you think he needed to read out the username Mcfapkins with a straight face?
Anyone know what watch Barnett is wearing?
5:43 marie SKŁODOWSKA curie, not “mary curie”. she’s POLISH and marrying a French man doesn’t change that… why does it happen mostly to her and why do educated people keep doing this
22:34 I respected his expertise until he said “the end of the Covid pandemic”… We’re still in an active pandemic. Are you not keeping up with the nearly half a million scientific journals thus far? Or the millions of people developing Long Covid? Keep up!
Of note- Covid damages your T cells and leaves your immune system compromised. So it shouldn’t be surprising to those who are keeping up with the science that the rate of measles has increased.