Ovaries And Oddities

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re diving into the horrors of Victorian London, from arsenic wallpaper and poisonous beauty products to deadly sewage, contaminated drinking water, cholera outbreaks, overcrowded streets, workhouses, doss houses, the four-penny coffin, and the infamous two-penny hangover.

The Victorian era gave us some of the most iconic aesthetics in history, but behind the pretty dresses and gothic architecture was a city filled with poverty, disease, pollution, human waste, toxic products, and social systems that punished people simply for being poor.

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Ivanna Brookes

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In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we uncover the dark medical history of J. Marion Sims, the doctor credited with shaping modern gynecology through experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women, including Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. These women, now often remembered as the Mothers of Gynecology, endured painful procedures without meaningful consent, while history preserved Sims’ name and buried theirs.

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In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the dark history of female hysteria: the centuries-old belief that women’s emotions, desires, pain, rebellion, and mental health struggles could all be blamed on the uterus. From the ancient idea of the “wandering womb” to Victorian-era medical treatments, asylum culture, and the disturbing ways women were controlled in the name of medicine, this episode exposes how medical misogyny shaped women’s lives for generations.

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What if I told you that the same country that prides itself on freedom, once locked up over 120,000 of its own people for their ancestry?

The United States had concentration camps.

And not in some distant past… but during World War II.

Families. Children. Entire communities… stripped of everything overnight. Most of them being American citizens.

Today we’re discussing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two.

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Ivanna Brookes

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Today we are going back to 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland! Where two men Burke & Hare turn death into a business. Killing 16 people, 12 women, 2 disabled children, and 2 men. They had a strict method and lured vulnerable individuals into their lodges, with the promise of a safe place to stay and alcohol. Why did they do this? They sold the bodies, for 7-10 pounds, for dissection. Do you think there were more than 16 victims?

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Have you heard of corpse medicine?

In today’s episode of Ovaries And Oddities we dive into corpse medicine throughout history. For centuries in Europe, people believed that the human body itself could be medicine. From mummy pills and skull medicine to drinking blood.

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Should I do more of these?

Or baked history live streams?

Would you give your body to science?

What if I told you that in 1788, a mob stormed a hospital… dragged doctors into the streets… and set the equipment on fire?

This is the true story of the Doctors’ Riot of 1788 in New York City

This episode dives into the dark truth behind early medical practices, grave robbing, and the terrifying moment when society turned on its own doctors.

If you love dark history, true crime, disturbing real events, and forgotten historical horrors, this episode is for you. 💀

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Ivanna Brookes

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Imagine going to the doctor for anxiety…

and leaving with an ice pick shoved through your eye socket.

In the 1940s and 50s, this wasn’t a horror movie plot. It was a medical procedure performed tens of thousands of times across the United States, often on women, children, and people who were simply considered “difficult.”

Rosemary Kennedy, president john f. Kennedys sister, had this procedure done on her to fix her mood swings and ended up permanently disabled. She was then left to rot in an institution for the rest of her life.

If you didn’t guess it by now… Today we’re talking about the terrifying history of lobotomies.

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What if I told you there was a queen who may have killed 50% of her kingdom… using ritual poison trials… and history still can’t decide if she was a monster or a woman refusing to let Europe colonize her?

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Ivanna Brookes