Episode 319 - Hazardous to Your Health - Snake Oil Salesmen, Quacks and Other Horrible Health Innovations
What an episode do we have for you! This episode we drift over the 19th and 20th century to pick out the worst medical products, quacks and crazy health trends we could find. We discuss the man who is responsible for the term 'Snake Oil Salesman', we discuss a surgeon with a degree HE PURCHASED who installed bits of goat testicle (or sometimes the whole darn thing) into his patients scrota...scroti? scrotito? We talk about dentist Painless Parker, a man who barely had a degree, but he had a circus, a gimmick and diluted cocainse, plus we talk about Radithor the energy drink with ACTUAL RADIUM…
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