Sick Notes - A History of Gory Medicine

10/06/21 • 25 min

Why are hundreds of skeletons hidden under a London market? Which disease was cured by frogs? Where can you find the skeleton of an “Irish Giant”? Why did the Queen's doctor prescribe rooster testicles? Was there a 17th century inoculation for smallpox? What was the Soho plague?

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Which British warrior queen decapitated Nero? Why did Elizabeth I meet an Irish piratess? How did England’s 17th century female spy escape from Holland? Why did Margaret Bulky become a man? Did a Hindu queen defeat the British army? Who were the suffragitsus? Hear the tragic story of the special-ops agent who won the George Cross.

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