Disease Death and Doctors
This is a storytelling podcast that discusses the NON-chronological history of medicine (Because going in order sucks). A discussion of diseases, discoveries, and the doctors that left their mark (and sometimes scar) on the field of medicine. Things are going to get weird. Episodes released twice monthly for your auditory consumption. Music: The Road (Punk Rock Opera). Tom Podell (digital alteration of Wellcome Library historical watercolor CC by 4.0)
Disease Death and Doctors
Yellow Fever and Napoleon's Epic Fail
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The Honorable Doctor John and The less Honorable Doctor Guy
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Season 1
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Episode 19
In the final episode of Season I, Doctor John and Doctor Guy discuss the time Napoleon "dropped the Crepe" and lost nearly 50,000 French troops in the West Indies to Yellow Fever and the army of a brilliant freed slave, L'Ouverture, ultimately setting the stage for the Louisiana Purchase. (AKA The United States biggest land purchase #ever) History and science are all over this one.