Johann Dippel and the Elixir of Life — Johann Konrad Dippel was born in 1673 at Frankenstein Castle. Originally a theology student, Dippel began dabbling in chemistry, medicine and alchemy. Today he’s remembered for creating a panacea that was used on a variety of ailments. How did he do it?
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Discovery
The End of Drug Discovery (2 of 2) — Geoff Watts discovers how new medical drugs will be developed, and the answer is collaboration between big pharma and academia.
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Big Picture Science
Skeptic Check: Mysterious Illness — Stuttering speech and facial tics are among the strange symptoms that swept through a New York high school. Discover what’s behind the odd outbreak, and why one sociologist sees parallels to Salem, Massachusetts 300 years ago. Also, an update on the cellphone cancer debate, and why one congressman wants warning labels on all new phones. Plus, the ultimate cleanse: giving up on food to survive on light and air. We investigate the claims of Breatharians.
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
Horace Wells and the Gas War — Dentist Horace Wells set up shop in Hartford in 1836, before the discovery of anasthesia. At an exhibition in 1844 he became certain that nitrous oxide could revolutionize medicine. He tried to demonstrate his findings… but things didn’t go as planned.
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Medicine and Compassion — Modern medicine can treat disease at a molecular – or even atomic – level. And today’s surgeons can fix things the naked eye can’t even see. But there’s one thing every patient wants that no technology in the world can provide: compassion. In this hour, doctors talk about the feeling side of their profession.
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
W.C. Minor: Madness, Murder, and a Dictionary (Part 1) — In the first part of this episode, we look at the early days of William Chester Minor. Minor originally studied medicine and served and practiced surgery in the Union Army. Eventually he was committed to a hospital for the insane. But what happened next?
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