13: A Peek into the Dark & Twisty Past of Medicine

Yo, yo, yo! The Sauce-shizzle welcomes you back into the Box-fizzle. Yeah, we all cringed at that, it’s fine. Any who, this week the box of sauce brings you A Peek into the Dark & Twisty Past of Medicine! We open this bitch up with Samara telling us of her spooky, sexy weekend before Nikki gives us the 411, the low down on her getting jiggy-wit-it. What are your theories why people aren’t as outgoing as they used to be? We share our opinions on it. Jake makes an appearance in our conversation again, we chat about how cool it is to reconnect with people from our school years, and we reminisce and wonder about whatever became of our time capsules from elementary and middle school. Then Samara presents the four bodily humors and how they were the first stepping stones to modern psychology and not actually physiological stepping stones. The Greeks were killing it! We still aren't huge fans of Hippocrates, though… kinda sorta. We’re on the fence. We also briefly discuss bloodletting, and a famous fella’s death it contributed to. Following that gross discussion, Nikki covers the wonderful world of lobotomies, and all the totally not tragic, not terrifying, completely not unhinged ways they were performed. And we end the show with a few rounds of odd and crazy questions in our game. Happy Cinco de Mayo!! Note: The man who had a railroad spike go through his head was Phineas Gage. He was a railroad foreman who, in 1848, sustained a severe brain injury when a tamping iron was driven through his skull. The accident destroyed much of his left frontal lobe, leading to significant personality changes. Turns out that the story of the woman who got repeat lobotomies because she enjoyed the way they made her feel is inaccurate. Lobotomies were never a voluntary procedure that someone could simply choose to have done to themselves and were almost always done without the person’s consent. Sources: - http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html - https://exploringyourmind.com/hippocrates-theory-four-humors/ - https://www.britannica.com/science/lobotomy - https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy#purpose - https://listverse.com/2009/06/24/top-10-fascinating-and-notable-lobotomies/