Beaver Bum Update - Is Castorium a Destroyer?

Stu and Chuck take a look back at ancient health care in the Roman world. They learn how women were 'charmed' with sweet smelling fumigations or made to inhale foul smells like smoke from a burning goat. And then forced to drink disgusting Castorium, which is also used in modern vanilla flavorings. Stu says studying history can unstick us from routine ways of thinking that we tend to pay less attention to today. But when we readAncient sources together, it reveals far more humanistic perspectives on medical issues including patients fears, anxieties,. reluctance to follow instructions as well as thorny diagnoses. It's an occasion to practice medicine given their context.