medicine shows in the us. Are a huge deal from about 18 hundred through to the 19 fifties. So, like the first ted talks, communicating to the public that medicine mattered and that there were these bodily processes that they needed to manipulate for better health. This is where we get into p t Barnum, who is like the biggest sort of popularizer of medicine showmen. The ray crock of circuses. He ran all this stuff: Freak shows, wild west shows, all that kind of stuff. His wild west shows were immensely popular. In those wild west shows,. white people could come see indigenous people on display. They sold bear grease, which they said would ready