Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 2 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “medical”.
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176 - C.L. Blood: Nitrous Oxide Doctor with a flare for Malpractice
April 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 44 mins
19th century, america history, comedy, con artist, doctor, drinking, history, laughing gas, medical, murder, nitroxide, phish, podcast, snake oil, true crime
You know how to cure most diseases? Nitrous oxide, a.k.a. Laughing Gas! C.L. Blood was dishing out more balloons full of this stuff to 19th century TB patients than the hippie-mafia at Phish shows! This unscrupulous doctor was not afraid to go above and beyond the law to turn a profit.
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131 - Walter Jackson Freeman II: Freestyle Lobotomy Smooth Brain
May 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 56 mins
1960s, american history, comedy, drinking, history, kennedy, lobotomy, medical, medicine, murder, podcast, surgery, trauma
William Jackson Freeman II came from a long line of brain surgeons. To live up to his lineage he 'perfected' the art of the Lobotomy. He got so good at it he was offering $25 lobotomies out of the back of a van in the 1960's. Ever wonder who scrambled the brain of that Kennedy girl... It was good ol' Walt!