Lara and Helen talk about typhoid and get into the details of Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary."  Lara's mother makes a guest appearance to talk about her experience with Typhoid. Spoiler: It's a love story. 

Chicago based actor, Ty Bonneville, joins us on this episode to tell us about her experience with a mystery illness. Some years back she was struck by what she thought was a flu but when it failed to to resolve itself within a month so knew she needed to seek help.

Lara and Helen can't leave well enough alone. In this episode they wade through art, literature, theatre, and music inspired by Tuberculosis.

In this episode Lara and Helen are in deep lockdown and discussing the hugely influential disease, Tuberculosis.  It had been with us since the dawn of civilization and has yet to be eradicated.  This week we are setting the stage, next week will be dedicated to TB's portrayal in visual art, literature, theatre, and music.

This episode kicks off the first of our First Hand Account episodes.  Andrew Yabroff, an actor who splits his time between LA and the PNW, makes a guest appearance to tell us about his experience with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.

In this episode, Helen and Lara discuss the depiction of Syphilis in art and literature and the effect it had on fashion, food, and daily life. 

Helen and Lara dive into the grisly history of syphilis on this wonderfully grim episode.

Helen tells the story of the Ursuline Nuns of New Orleans and the first true pharmacist of America and Lara explores how industrialization and the enlightenment affected the medical world in Europe in the 19th century.

In this inaugural episode, Helen and Lara discuss the medical philosophy that pervaded Europe from the Greeks to the Tudor period. Including, a very useful cure for lovesickness!