me well I feel like around the corner is gonna be an a no I'm

not

gonna fall for it when he the poo was born I'm gonna find the

honey Joseph Nash McDowell was born in Lexington Kentucky okay the Kentucky is they call it is that right yep his family was respected and had been part of the founding of the country his father fought with Washington and Sir George Washington yep the same the George he served in Kentucky's first state legislature but Joseph did not follow in the family military tradition

okay

as a boy Joseph was fascinated with his uncle Ephraim

sure he's where did we record this original this was recorded in Lexington Kentucky did we do what I

don't know I think we didn't want to Louisville didn't we

yeah yeah we did one in Louisville okay but it was deadly Kentucky okay I don't think there's any other cities there yeah

there aren't no so Ephraim's a doctor and he made history in 1806 when he took a huge tumor out of a woman whoa good for him he did the operation on a dining table in the guest room of his house with no anesthesia or antibiotics or painkillers whoa so a natural tumor whoa what they call that

that's a natural I love it tumor boy that must have really hurt god like good long term but man get me shitface oh my god on the table yeah we were gonna have macaroni Josh this is

perfect yeah you gotta clean it up and eat there the next day it's gotta be kind of weird I

don't know boy that would be nuts and do

you eat the tumor

I don't want to talk to you on the rest of this episode I tell you what

I put some tumor recipes up on the website go ahead and check them out but they're all kinds I'll

tell you what's in this to Merrick

so the tumor was too big to take out I can't believe

we're following the tumor

okay yeah we're going with the tumor the tumor was too big to take out through the incision so he drove that

it's not a good incision by the way no no it's fine he drained the tumor oh until it was small enough to remove let me just I'm gonna take some of the tumor water out of this just under

22 pounds

holy fuck

so she was she had one of those tumors and make you look pregnant I would assume like it's a big ass

tumor what a switch to you if

it yeah a nephew had assisted one of his nephews

I'm surely not but he was like I guess all right now we got to cut it we got to cut the tumor and drain it a little before we yank it out of the hole in your hands I didn't know you could drain tumors but we're all in either yeah no that is crazy you know it comes out I'm just

putting

okay a crowd stop it looks famished butterscotch Luke just picked up his pudding team people don't know that's where butterscotch pudding comes I think we shouldn't do this part anymore okay

a crowd gathered outside the house because no one understood what this doctor man was doing

yeah

they were angry and excited and waiting to see what would come from him quote butchering a woman

I mean I I got I always like to put myself in the head of the people and I think I would be in the crowd be like you can't do that yeah you can't just

cut a woman

you know because it was just on a table yeah I would want to see what wait yeah

but I think you can legally do that probably if you're married

at that time to love and to cut through sickness and in health on a table

so if she died there was pretty much no one to protect Afro and they would just take revenge on him so I would

definitely be being like the nephew said it was cool with you

guys he was saving her life but also putting his his in the balance yeah in the balance but she lived and after 25 days after the surgery she made she made the bed and she rode home

okay she made the bed nice that's nice

she lived another 32 years 32 more years that's how good unless she was evil then it's not good we don't know well I

mean we're not we don't know about her so you assume

she's not evil well why else would the tumor be in her some people called Ephraim the father of abdominal surgery nice

people

came to him from all over the country to cure their ills he also used corpses for dissection as he had studied in Edinburgh and that was a big thing

there that's fine that's where haggis comes from that is where haggis that's yeah oh there's the haggis dollar yeah in

Missouri it was legal to dissect hanged criminals but in the 1830s the demand for corpses was way more than there were hanged criminals so body snatching became a

thing okay

so

Joseph back to Joseph yep the boy his

nephew Joseph studied with his uncle to become a surgeon okay for sure Joseph would have stolen bodies so he defers uncle and himself okay yeah that you just had to have done that back there

sure