We had to have two goes at this episode. When we started recording we realised that we did not know an awful lot about the history of medicine, so we had to go away and do some research. But then we got into the swing of things and we cover the history of medicine from Hippocrates to the renaissance.
We are publishing a couple of days early as we are off on holiday this evening. We are going to France and hope to do a couple of on the road casts though we will have to see how we get on with the tech.
As ever you can get the episode through various channels:
Books we read:
Blood and Guts: A short history of medicine by Roy Porter
The History of Medicine: A very short introduction by William Bynum
The Grisly History of Medicine: Potions, Poisons and Pills
100 Things to Know about the Human Body
Galen: Pierre-Roch Vigneron [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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