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    The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

    By Justin McElroy and Sydnee McElroy

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    Every week, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin amaze, amuse, and gross out (depending on the week) hundreds of thousands of avid listeners to their podcast, Sawbones. Consistently rated a top podcast on iTunes, with over 15 million total downloads, this rollicking journey through thousands of years of medical mishaps and miracles is not only hilarious but downright educational. While you may never even consider applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once the height of sophistication when it came to headache cures), you will almost certainly face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life (we’re looking at you, raw water!) and be better able to figure out if this is a miracle cure (it’s not) or a scam.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeldon Owen
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781681885131
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    Justin McElroy

    Meet the McElroys! Clint was born first, which recent studies have shown is the best procedure for fathers and sons. Justin came along twenty-five years later, two weeks late, actually, which caused his mother, Leslie, some consternation and more than a little back pain. Three years to the day (yes, the very day) Travis came along, forever ruining Justin’s birthday, at least according to Justin. The decision was made to not have a third child born on November 8th, so Griffin arrived three-and-a-half years later on April 17th. There followed this decade and that, during which there was a lot of school, theater, broadcasting, video games, moving around the country and various and sundry monkeyshines. Then came a time for fewer monkeyshines, so a ton of marriages happened and people were added to the family branch. In the midst of all this begetting, podcasts began springing up in even greater abundance and their names were My Brother My Brother and Me (which spawned a popular tv show), Sawbones, Shmanners, Wonderful, and a farcical romp called The Adventure Zone.

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    • 4/5
      I very much enjoy the Sawbones podcast. Sydney and Justin did a fantastic job bringing over some of the earlier episode content into this book. A super interesting read when you have time to digest it vs a podcast. Justin's humor is also found in this book, and while I enjoy listening to him more, it is still fun to see his humor in these pages.
    • 5/5
      A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be.
    • 4/5
      Great companion to the podcast and beautifully illustrated.
    • 4/5
      The content of this book is great! The art is extremely well-done. I have to mention the major flaw, though, which is the abundance of typographical errors. It's unfortunate. I expect a couple of typos in a first edition of almost any book, but there are just so many that it became glaring after a while. Sawbones is my favorite podcast, and I still love the book! But the editing issues are the only thing keeping it from being a 5-star read for me.
    • 5/5
      This is a humorously described collection of historical facts about medicine. This is an audiobook and the authors read the information. I really enjoyed the humor and the interesting information.
    • 4/5
      We are lucky that we can read a book like this and be grateful that though medicine today is far from perfect, it has certainly come a very long way. This is a gorgeous book, the cover, the full color illustrations and ads inside. We can laugh at some of them now, but people in the past believed in some of these outrageous cure-alls. The constant solutions to the obesity, which goal is still relevant today. But back in the past we would see ads like this one.EAT! EAT! EAT! Always stay thin! Fat the enemy that is shortening your life BANISHED!HOW with sanitized tapeworms. Her packed. Easy to swallow. Seriously? Or how about buying a bar of La Parks obesity soap? Think that might do the trick?Drilling into skulls with hand drills. Of course the ice pick lobotomy. Poor Rosemarie Kennedy'sWont begin to tell you what they did with urine and feces. What about a magic belt that one could wrap around themselves, turn on the battery and you had a solution for nausea? Mummy meat crumbled into tinctures to stop bleeding? Well that a few of many of the disturbing things one will read in this book. It does have a few things, like some of the uses for honey, that has a certainly validity to this day. A kind of gross, quirky and interesting book. Oh and don't read the book summary, I think it gives away much to much.