Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

This week on Sawbones, Live from Huntington, WV and Candlenights 2015: CHRISTMAS IS TRYING TO KILL YOU. Grandma. Egg nog. Trees. Mistletoe. The Grinch. RUN.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones117Xmas.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:43pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, we put the lime in the coconut and the severity of our scurvy is not diminished in the slightest.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones116Scurvy.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:26pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin provide a brief history of caring for gunshot wounds.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

 

 

Direct download: Sawbones115GSWs.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:33pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin discuss one reason the world is a little less scary for today's parents: The history of scarlet fever.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

 

Direct download: Sawbones114Scarletfever.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:26pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin highlight some of medicine's most incredible superheroes. Their power? Eating trash and not dying.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones113PoisonSquad.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:36pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin are back with, and we don't think we're exaggerating here: The weirdest story they've ever told.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones112.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:54pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin finally stick it to Joy Behar (just a couple months too late to be relevant) with their brief history of nursing.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones111nursing.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:31pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin dip into their archives to find some great/terrible ideas for costumes from the history of medicine. Also: Spooky medical stories to help you impress around the campfire!

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones110Halloween.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:36pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin embark on a tour of the history of roundworms, in an episode Sydnee says will be just "Part 1" of the history of roundworms, which Justin finds horrifying, for the record.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones109Roundworm.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:21pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee are dodging ticks as we explore the surprisingly short history of Lyme Disease.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones108Lyme.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:01pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Oh No Ross and Carrie! hosts Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy hosts step in for Sydnee and Justin as part of the Max Fun Great Switcheroo as they look into the history of near-death experiences.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: SawbonesSwap.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:45pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Sydnee and guest star Rileigh Smirl introduce you to the diseases at the root of some monsters myths.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones106Monsters.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:16am EDT

This week on Sawbones, it's Part Three of our series of putting pet-centric illness on BLAST. This week, we put snakes on a plane.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones105Snakes.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:33am EDT

Lice are gross. That is all. 

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones104Lice.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:53pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, it's Part Two of our series of putting pet-centric illness on BLAST. This week, live from Vancouver, we give kitties the business.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones103Cats.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:08am EDT

This week on Sawbones, it's Part One of our series of putting pet-centric illness on BLAST. This week, live from Seattle, we finally give birds their due.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

 

Direct download: Sawbones102Birds.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:53pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, we celebrate 100 episodes of Sawbones as Justin and Dr. Sydnee pat themselves on the back, talk about the history of their show (and marriage) and explore the medical history of love.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones101Love.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:12pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee explore the strange, sad and even occassionally lovely history of conjoined twins.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones100Conjoined.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:46pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee throw the baby out with the bathwater (literally) as they explore the history of hygiene.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones99Hygiene.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:46pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee do their sweetest, most requested episode ever: Let's have a bit 'o' honey.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones98Honey.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:20pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee stop making corsets and build two battleships as they explore the history of fainting.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones98Fainting.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:51pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee blow metal rod through a guy's brain and live to tell about it. He does too, which is more impressive, in retrospect.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones97Gage.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:02pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee crash a boat into a pier to cure your seasickness.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones96Seasick.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:12pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee are wrapping a parasitic worm around a stick with Jimmy Carter.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones95GuineaWorms.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:17pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee celebrate their wedding anniversary by rubbing cow manuer in a burn.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones94Burns.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:56pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee want you to get your D in the safest way humanly possible.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones93Sunshine.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:31pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin is transported into the body of a Sydnee's teenage sister Rileigh and has a lot of awkward questions.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones92TeenGirl.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:22am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee finish their scattershot history of medical TV. An episode that even the most squeamish listener won't be yucked out by!

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones91TVpart2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:33pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, you're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion as Justin and Sydnee explore the weird history of poison ivy.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones90PoisonIvy.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:35pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee share medical history's greatest present the sad story of one of medicine's most mistreated "villains."

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones89Typhoid.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:31pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee share medical history's greatest will-they/won't-they, the story of a doctor and his muse: A man with a hole in his stomach.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones88Guthole.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:35am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee are gonna make you sweat with their history of the totally bizarre phenomenon known as "Sweating Sickness."

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Direct download: Sawbones87Sweating.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:51pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, in the last of their three-part series, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the dark and light side of swimming pools as they present the triumph over polio.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones86Polio.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:42am EDT

This week on Sawbones, in the last of their three-part series, Dr. Sydnee and Justin introduce you to some of the craziest operators in the patent medicine game.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones85Patent3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:51pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin introduce you to some of the craziest operators in the patent medicine game.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones84PatentMedsB.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:01pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin introduce you to some of the craziest operators in the patent medicine game.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones83PatentHeroes1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:37am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee hands the reins to Justin as they explore the history of medical TV, and explain why most of TV doesn't actually exist.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones82TVPart1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:24am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explain why Sydnee gets to call herself and Justin doesn't.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones81Education.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:28pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explain why an earthquake knocking trees into a lake was pretty miraculous in their history of malaria.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones80Malaria.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:33am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about the latest hot trends in mercury fumigation as they explore the history of syphilis.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones79Syphilis.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:43am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin wear a Taz T-shirt in a mall fashion show. Also, bile, blood and phlegm is discussed.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones78Humors.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:12pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin take a sunrise and sprinkle it with dew.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones77Chocolate.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:30pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin revisit a horrifying, real-world case of Boogie Fever.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones76Dancing.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:44am EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin get angry about the measles.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones75Measles.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:57pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin putting some poopy into a bread pill.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones74Perry.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:56pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are selling all their blood.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones73Tranfusions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:20pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are gonna unlock the infinite power of your nose.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones72Aromatherapy.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:28pm EDT

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are gonna drink that sweet pee.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

Direct download: Sawbones71Diabetes.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:03pm EDT

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