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FROM Justin McElroy
Sawbones Once upon a time, people treated warts by rubbing them with a live fish, parents cut babies gums to help adult teeth come in, and doctors encouraged menstruating women to stand in a field of wheat in the rain to help the harvest. These are the types of topics discussed on the podcast “Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine.” We talk to the hosts about the dumb, bad, gross , weird and wrong ways we’ve tried to fix people over the years.
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