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Vital Electricity

You're Dead to Me

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Electricity Treating Hemorrhoids

In 1779, James Graham opens his own therapeutic institute at the end of the 18th century. He's a charlatan with a medical degree and he thinks you shouldn't wear too much opunator. The idea is that basically your body fluids, your sweat is meant to stimulate an electric current. Spoiler alert: It doesn't work. And for the third time in the podcast, I have to talk about electricity treating hemorrhoids. Because we have something called the Sitzbad, which is invented by George Schmidt in 1784. This feels slightly less dangerous, but it's very marketed, isn't it? There's merch, there's posters. They look like tiny little c

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