Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 264 - The One Where We're Thankful For Modern Medicine

In This Week’s Show, episode 264 we venture down medical history lane to find the finest headwear to match our delightful pigeon shoes.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while The Erlking hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience! (King of the Fairies)

Shea’s Life Lesson

In honor of Shelley: This week I learned that in West Virginia you can’t substitute a ferret for a hunting dog… Well, legally that is. Oh and also in WV, it’s legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs, so that ferret better watch out.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Jenn’s out this week so in her honor I learned a silly state law from Georgia, apparently, You cannot keep a donkey in your bathtub. However, in Arizona it's okay to let your donkey stand in the tub, but they cannot sleep in the bathtub.

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Gamma Ray - Terrapin Beer Co.

Donated By: Travis

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2372/45275/

* BA Rating: 86

* Style: American Wheatwine Ale

* ABV: 10.8%

* Aaron: 2

* Shea: 2

* Steve: 3

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Mental Illness, Yee-Oldie Remedies, and you.

As you’ve heard on this show in the past, and I think you’re about to hear from Shea, being afflicted in any way back in the day probably meant more trouble from the cure than the cause. Unless you were rich, then gout wasn’t a disease so much as an indication of your wealth… A far cry from previous cultures identifiers of wealth, like being clean or wearing money.

The usual suspects like leprosy or cheese-ankle were easy to diagnose. The person had a festering gross and were given a life-time prescription for a hut in the leper colony. If you were a person of standing who could pay to have your illness treated you were probably bled, given bird-based footwear, or in the unfortunate eventuality that you have a vagina, drugged, shamed, and probably murdered for hysteria.

Mental illnesses however, were often treated on a case-by-case bases. For example, if your wife is exhibiting symptoms of hysteria — the only thing women ever got sick with before modern medicine streamlined and vouled-up the process of ignoring them — you were probably afflicted with a uterus-moving demon which requires a healthy dose of lognum and some dick. If, however, you were hearing voices and a man, the diagnoses was somewhat simpler. Clearly you had a bad case of possession and without the life-savi...