The History of Medicine

This week, we learn about John Bonica, a world-famous wrestler, and then a world-famous doctor and pain researcher, and all around an extraordinary individual. Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about Wilbert Fordyce, a pioneer in applying psychological research to preventing pain. You may have heard of operant conditioning before, but have you heard of using it for chronic pain reduction?Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

Hello everyone, Kirby here. Sorry but I cannot get an episode up this week. Between a some personal matters and my internet being down for an entire day, my week has been very chaotic, and this week’s episode is unfinished. I’m hoping to resume like usual next week. Bear with me, and thank you for your patience. Be back soon! Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we learn about Stewart Adams, who helped discover ibuprofen, one of the most important painkilling medications today. Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about the very long journey of acetaminophen/paracetamol, from its discovery in the late 1800s to its eventual widespread use in modern times. This journey is filled with mistakes and mishaps, but eventually the drug does make it out. Part 1 of my interview on the NoiseFilter podcastCheck out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

Sorry for the delay, I took a week off for Lunar New Year! This episode, we talk about some of the applications of Melzack and Wall's Gate Theory of Pain. A whole bunch of doctors, scientists, and engineers got interested in zapping away our pain again, and the implantable nerve stimulator for pain was born.Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, let's learn about Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, two very different successors to Livingston who together published the very influential gate control theory of pain. Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

Today, we talk about some ways that pain was thought about before the 20th century, and then William K Livingston, who combined a lot of that thinking and set up our modern understanding of pain.Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

We're back! Sorry, the last few weeks were crazy, between a Covid exposure and the holidays. This week, let's talk about some of the pain treatments that replaced opioid drugs in the late 1800s and early 1900s; electrotherapy, and neurosurgery. Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about Silas Weir Mitchell, who was a doctor and researcher who first studied causalgia, or pain caused by nerve damage. He had a lot of accomplishments in his life, and a lot of tragedy too, and deserves to be remembered. Check out our website!E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.com!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!