Step into the bizarre world of historical medicine, where cures were often more dangerous than the ailments. From asthma cigarettes to whale hotels, goose grease remedies, and Mrs. Winslow’s deadly soothing syrup for babies, Halley and Blaire explore the strange, shocking, and sometimes fatal treatments that shaped medical history. Prepare for a dose of the macabre with a side of dark humor as we uncover the quackery of the past!

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Sources: 

https://archive.org/details/ontransfusionofm00bove (On the transfusion of milk, as practised in cholera, at the Cholera Sheds, Toronto, July, 1854)

https://www.justthinktwice.gov/article/did-coca-cola-ever-contain-cocaine?

https://www.wired.com/story/whale-bath/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/424110

The Medical History of the United States: 1607-2000 by David W. Stewart

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