Ridiculous History

Serious Diseases with Seriously Funny Names, Part One: Dropsy

Nov 30, 2023
In this podcast, the hosts explore the etymology of strangely-named diseases like dropsy, discuss preserved seafood and tinned fish, delve into the treatments and etymology of dropsy, and talk about hand foot and mouth disease and the origins of Cockstackie virus. They also touch on rats as carriers of diseases like the black death.
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