Curious Medicine

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Christi is joined by Gloria on this episode and the two discuss the relatively “new” and increasingly popular procedure, labiaplasty!

Topics discussed include: reasons women may consider labiaplasty and external factors contributing to the popularity of this procedure; risks and benefits; and a general description of the most popular surgical technique.

In this episode Christi and Mindy talk about grave robbers!

Topics discussed include: cultural norms surrounding dead bodies and cadaver dissections; resurrectionists – who they were and what motivated them to snatch bodies; how the American Revolutionary War influenced cadaver dissection; the very long history of the exploitation of criminals and minority groups for dissection; how bodies were actually removed from fresh graves; the extreme measures taken to prevent body snatching; and the “Doctors’ Riot” in 1788.

THIS EPISODE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!

This is a spooky episode, just in time for Halloween! The Victorian era was replete with persons deathly afraid of being buried alive! After all, in the 18th and 19thcenturies, there were no medical testing devices to determine death. Join Christi and Erick as they share story after story of persons buried alive who lived to tell about it…and those who didn’t!

Topics discussed include: medical conditions that may simulate apparent death; the London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial; shocking death tests; precautions taken to ensure no person was buried alive; waiting mortuaries (Christi’s favorite); and safety coffins.

THIS VERSION IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN due to some vulgar language and discussion of pubic lice. (A clean version is available for listeners with children which does not include vulgar language or the topic of pubic lice.)

This episode will have you scratching your head! Christi and Mindy talk about head lice and pubic lice on this episode.

Topics discussed include: the differences between head lice and pubic lice (crabs); prevalence of lice across time; symptoms; diagnosis; and ancient treatments.

Mindy declares that she is a nitpicker but she doesn’t like fancy combs!

This is the clean version, appropriate for listeners with children and does not include vulgar language or details about pubic lice.

This episode will have you scratching your head! Christi and Mindy talk about head lice on this episode.

Topics discussed include: prevalence of lice across time; symptoms; diagnosis; and ancient treatments.

Mindy declares that she is a nitpicker but she doesn’t like fancy combs!

THIS EPISODE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!

This episode is probably not what you think. On this episode, Christi is joined by Erick, who happens to have the very best opening story so far in the short history of Curious Medicine! The two discuss both rectal and vaginal fumigation, common practices which occurred during Christi’s favorite time in recent history, the good ol’ Victorian era!

Topics discussed include: tobacco smoke enemas; the Institution for Affording Immediate Relief to Persons Apparently Dead from Drowning; art from the 19th century depicting rectal fumigation and drowning; trends in vaginal fumigation (aka V-steaming) in ancient times and today; how, in ancient times, vaginal fumigation was used to determine virginity, reclaim virginity, and to tighten the vagina.

We can’t make this stuff up! You won’t want to miss this Curious episode!

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Join Christi and Brandy as they discuss the issues over the past two hundred years surrounding rectal foreign bodies.

Topics discussed include: demographics of persons with RFBs; reasons a person might have a RFB; symptoms; how doctors diagnosed RFBs two hundred years ago and now; classifications of RFBs; extraction techniques, past and present; consequences and complications; and best of all, various case studies and many, many, many examples of documented RFBs are sprinkled throughout the episode!

THIS EPISODE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!

In this episode Christi and Mindy talk urine (mostly) pregnancy tests!

Topics discussed include: how modern-day urine pregnancy tests work; earliest known urine pregnancy tests dating back to 1350 BC; evolution of early home pregnancy tests; advertising; determining sex; and how Hippocrates suggested the use of an onion to determine pregnancy.