Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Thalassotherapy

Episode Summary

TikTok has become enthralled with the idea of Thalassotherapy... which is basically going to the ocean to feel better. Dr. Sydnee talks about the history of this "sea cure" and Dr. Richard Russell, the man who popularized it in the second half of the eighteenth century. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ National Immigration Project: https://nipnlg.org/about/who-we-are

Episode Notes

TikTok has become enthralled with the idea of Thalassotherapy... which is basically going to the ocean to feel better. Dr. Sydnee talks about the history of this "sea cure" and Dr. Richard Russell, the man who popularized it in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

National Immigration Project: https://nipnlg.org/about/who-we-areĀ