From a messy Petri dish to laughing gas parties, medical history is full of accidents that worked out better than anyone expected. Marshall Miller shares how forgotten experiments, strange discoveries, and even a confused beagle led to breakthroughs like penicillin, x-rays, and insulin.

Step into 17th-century London, where the medical field was less science and more superstition. In this episode of Rub Some Dirt in It, Marshall Miller dives into the quirky and sometimes downright absurd causes of death listed in 1632. From “King’s Evil,” supposedly cured by royal touch, to “Cut of the Stone” surgery without anesthesia, history shows just how far medicine has come.

Relieve yourself of any curiosity surrounding the history of uroscopy with our whiz-bang host Marshall Miller.

This episode of Rub Some Dirt in It is getting curiouser and curiouser. See if you can solve these two cases before host Marshall Miller reveals the rare and unexpected diagnoses.