Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Join Dr. Sydnee as she shocks Justin with the revelation that aspirin isn't for headaches anymore, along with plenty of other revelations about this wonder pill.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones203Aspirin.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:37pm EDT

This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin delve into the strange story of the king who thought he was made of glass, and the many he might have convinced that they were too.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones202TheGlassDelusion.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:15pm EDT

How many pull ups can you do? How fast can you run? How far can you jump? Most importantly: Why does the President of the United States care so much? These questions and more answered this week!

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones201PresidentialFitness.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:38pm EDT

Dr. Sydnee and Justin mark the 200th episode of Sawbones with a topic that's a real snooze: The history of snoring! (Get it?)

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones200Snoring.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:12pm EDT

Sawbones tries to lighten things up this week and Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the chuckle-worthy history of tickling.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones199Tickling.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:17pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a timely, tragic history of eugenics. 

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones198Eugenics.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:44pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a sobering look at America's opioid crisis. The bad news: We're all still living in a Sawbones episode.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones197OpioidAddiction.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:03am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin rub a baby alligator's heart on every penis we can find as we explore the history of treating erectile dysfunction.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones196ErectileDysfunction.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:33am EDT

Philadelphia is home not only to the most recent Sawbones live show, but also one of the world's most unusual museums -- The Mutter Museum -- a collection of medical oddities and anatomical specimens. But this is no freak show, this is an unflinching, educational look at the disturbingly beautiful and beautifully disturbing side of medicine. This is the Sawbones promised land.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones195MutterMuseum.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:46pm EDT

The man who (maybe) inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein didn't just try to breathe life into corpses. He also invented a medicine so toxic it was used in chemical warfare. Also, a kind of blue! This is all real. We swear.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones194Dippel.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:37pm EDT