Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Sawbones: The First Pharmacist

Episode Date: May 18, 2019

This week on Sawbones, we meet the first pharmacist in the U.S., visit the New Orleans museum that celebrates his legacy and hunt the ghosts that supposedly haunt it. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpaye...rs

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil? We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it. that weird growth. You're worth it. Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four. I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host.
Starting point is 00:00:50 I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host. I'm your co-host. for the mouth. Oh. Hello, welcome, buddy. And welcome to Saul Bones, Emerald Drew, Miss Gatameth, and I'm your co-host, Justin McAroy. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:14 And I'm Sydney McAroy. Yeah. Yes. Yes. We all know we have something more important to discuss. My brother, not three minutes ago Let me take you back. We were right there. Wait, we saw the whole thing. We saw the whole thing Let me back up
Starting point is 00:01:33 Today my family went to the ruby sliver cafe I Did not I went and took my daughter my my baby, back for a nap, because I'm a hero. I ate a lamp-heated sandwich that I bought at a store. That's not important. I come downstairs and I ask, we're going to the aquarium. I don't want to, but we have to because we go to the aquarium every time. We go anywhere.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Not because it's not great. He was just kind of tired. We go to the aquarium every time because we have so many children and they delight in the fish. And I'm there and I think I don't want to do this, but I will. And who is missing? My bearded brother.
Starting point is 00:02:22 I ask, where is he? And friends, I'm here to tell you that despite what he just said, he was upstairs taking an app alone in a bed for two hours. So... If you don't listen to the shmanners, he said at the end, or they haven't published that one, he said to Schmanner's that it's not important anyway. I'm just, he lied to you and I'm so sorry to begin our evening that way, but my brother lied to you.
Starting point is 00:02:56 We're just really jealous, because we haven't slept like that since 24 13 something like that anyway that's not why we're here folks we're gonna talk about not just a dunk on traps not just a dunk on traps although you know what I could do 27 minutes of material dunking on traps but no we have something better to talk about Sydney what is it because we we have something better to talk about Sydney. What is it? No, because we have gotten to go a lot of fun places since we've been here. And I had a specific destination in mind when I found out we were coming to New Orleans. There was a certain place
Starting point is 00:03:37 that I really wanted to go. And that was the pharmacy museum. I was really excited to get to see it in person. I'd checked it out online and I'd heard about it. Some of our listeners had emailed me saying like you'd love this place, you should check it out. And so I got to go. And I want to talk about it. That sounded like a story that had a twist, but there was no twist. No, we just went. We went to it. We just we went to it. And now we're going to talk about it. The really cool thing the history behind the pharmacy museum is that New Orleans is home to the first licensed pharmacist in the United States of America. The very first one to actually like be licensed to be a pharmacist and do what he was doing is from right here,
Starting point is 00:04:26 which is really cool because before that, much like being a physician, being a pharmacist in the US in the early 1800s, 1700s, was just like, you just said you were. Hey, I've got some pills. That I don't. I made these. I made these. I've got pills. Do I made these. I made these.
Starting point is 00:04:45 I've got pills. Do you want them for money? You may have certainly studied. Certainly there was a wide variety of training backgrounds. There were some that actually studied and learned about different medicines of the day. Some of those were actual medicines. Many were not. Some were cooking. A lot, a lot were cooking.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Like half. And you probably did some apprenticeship, but it was really easy. And you see a apprenticeship? Apprenticeship. Thank you. Okay, I thought we had to introduce cursing for the first time on solvents.
Starting point is 00:05:21 I didn't know why you got so blue. No. Some apprentice. Duky. Duky. Some apprentice, Duky. Sorry, apprentice, Duky. Oh!
Starting point is 00:05:39 Oh! Oh! It's funny. It's a funny word. Okay. You may have just been from a family of apothecaries and you were just like, well, I'm part of the family business, I do this now, I make pills and I give them to people and I tell people what they should take as medicine because that was part of the job of a pharmacist.
Starting point is 00:06:01 In 1804, Louisiana became the first state to pass a law that said, you know what, we should probably try to standardize this. We should regulate it and say like, there is something, there is a bar that you have to meet to be a pharmacist. And in the state, it was a three hour exam that was administered by pharmacist and physician. So you had to answer a series of questions.
Starting point is 00:06:23 And if you passed it, then you could be a licensed pharmacist. So it was actually, it's funny, that was passed in 1804. It would be a while before anybody actually took and passed the exam. You think they had a bit where they're like, we made this too hard. Well, I imagine for a while nobody bothered. Yeah. Because it was still like, if you had your store and people came to it and you were like, I'm unlicensed, but look at all my opium pills.
Starting point is 00:06:50 In fact, the first person to get licensed kind of ruined it for everybody else, right? If all of us are unlicensed, then we're all pharmacists. There we go. You ever thought about that? That's the, oh man. Maybe we're all pharmacists.
Starting point is 00:07:03 We're not, We're not. So Louis DeFilo, Jr. is who we're going to talk about. He was born in France in 1788. He was the son of Jean-Duffilo and Jean-Marie Bonnet. And they moved the whole family to New Orleans around 1800. And he came from a family of pharmacists as well. His brother was a pharmacist and his dad was a pharmacist. But he was the first one in 1816 after he went to the College of Pharmacy back in France.
Starting point is 00:07:31 He came back over and sat for the exam in an 1816. He became the first one to pass an exam and say, I am actually a pharmacist. So as of 1816, the US had their first actual licensed pharmacist. He started a business at first with his brother, and then he eventually opened his pharmacy, which is what is now the pharmacy museum that you can still go visit. If you'd like to, I would highly recommend it,
Starting point is 00:07:57 if you haven't been there. If you live here and you haven't been here, what are you doing? Go there. Yeah, check it out. That's $3. No, it was five. Six? It might have been six.
Starting point is 00:08:09 I don't know. No, it was five. It was less than seven. We can all agree on that. Five. It was five. And it was well worth it. And our kids were free.
Starting point is 00:08:17 You can't beat that. Why are we doing an ad? I actually looked at my laptop. We got a group of them going. If you want to get there before 50 I looked it up ahead of time because we've got we've got little kids and I was like this is cool for kids Right and they're they're basically like you can you we welcome children you're totally a lot to bring your kids It may freak them out. So that bothers you don't and I was like wow also we have
Starting point is 00:08:41 1 million small glass bottles We're not the kind of kids that break small glass things, right? Because those, we're not crazy about. So if you got the kind that don't love to smash some old things, I spit a lot of time in the patio. It's like, don't touch anything, anything. So at this point in history, as I kind of alluded to, a pharmacist was more than what you think of as like the person
Starting point is 00:09:07 who you go to and they can administer, like if you think of a commercial pharmacist, somebody who you would go to a pharmacy and get your medicine from, and they can kind of like advise you want to take some of the side effects, what to take and not to do and that kind of thing. A pharmacist at the time would also be diagnosing and maybe even treating illness in a way that we don't traditionally think of pharmacists of doing.
Starting point is 00:09:27 And so you would go to his pharmacy and tell him like, I got these symptoms, I don't know what's going on, and you wouldn't have necessarily been to a physician or anything, and he would tell you, hey, you should take this or that. He was also making the medicines, which most of the time is not done like at Walmart. I don't like making the pills back there. I don't I don't think. Don't look at me. I'm an unlicensed pharmacist. And this was a really exciting time when he opened his pharmacy. This was a really exciting time in history to be running a pharmacy
Starting point is 00:10:05 because medicine was changing in that we had just kind of started to understand the germ theory of disease that we passed germs from person to person and that was responsible for a lot of illness. It wasn't necessarily like clouds of bad air. So... Wasn't necessarily clouds of bad air, you say? Which was still a huge battle between doctors at the moment. The measma theory is it just that disease happens because things smell bad and then you get sick.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Yes. Or was it because there are germs? And so this was a really exciting time to be practicing medicine, which a pharmacist would have been doing, essentially practicing medicine. Anesthesia was a new thing. New Orleans practicing medicine, which a pharmacist would have been doing, essentially practicing medicine. And Esthesia was a new thing. New Orleans was the fastest growing city in the US at this point, so there were tons of people coming in.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Yeah. This was over 100 years ago, guys, calm down. And along with all these people, also came yellow fever, which is not as... What? Why are you excited about that? What's wrong with you? You act like you were watching a mighty duck's remake,
Starting point is 00:11:20 and Emilio Estevez just showed up. It's him! Coach Bombay, he's in it. He wasn't the press to or anything, I can't believe it. They had the ideas. Love that fool. Coach Bambari, quack quack quack. Love that guy.
Starting point is 00:11:37 So, yellow fever. Which, no. No. Stop it. Fan favorite, yellow fever. We've broken you, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No! No! Stop it! Fan favorite, yellow fever. We've broken you people!
Starting point is 00:11:50 I know! I'm not going to say anything as good as yellow fever, but it was really good. There we go. Finally, something got a lot richer than Sydney, and it's yellow fever. So, it would cause periodic epidemics in the city, and people would get really sick, and sometimes they died. Are we still shooting? No, no, there is a twist.
Starting point is 00:12:31 All right, let's lower the routing as a little bit, because there's somebody in here with yellow fever that's like single tear. Like, I can't believe this. Oh. There were a lot of names for yellow fever. My favorite, I was going to mention them all, but I just wanted to mention my favorite was the saffron scourge.
Starting point is 00:12:49 That was my favorite of them. But it spread my mosquitoes, and it would cause periodic epidemics. And everybody was trying to figure out what should we do about it. DeFilo is interesting in that he was one of the people recommending quinine, which is good for malaria, is not necessarily, but this was more science-based approach than we had seen so far, like you have a fever, this is good for other
Starting point is 00:13:15 fivers, that was closer, especially when you consider that a lot of the other treatments that people were trying for yellow fever at the time were, let's shoot some cannons off. Cool. people were trying for yellow fever at the time where let's shoot some cannons off. The city tried that a lot. Burn barrels of tar. What was the rationale there? The bad air would go away.
Starting point is 00:13:38 The stinky tar air would push out the yellow fever air. Which is similar to the cannons thing. I also, maybe they're loud. They should fire the cannons into the tar and get this party started. I liked a lot of the treatments would depend on just what doctor or pharmacist you happen to talk to. And so some of them were like, what you need
Starting point is 00:14:01 is you need bloodletting. So I'm going to cut you and bleed you or put some leeches on you. I'm gonna give you mercury. This is gonna be terrible, but I'm gonna save your life. And then a different doctor might say, you need some champagne and oysters. That's all you need.
Starting point is 00:14:17 It's fine. I think the easiest was just like, I don't know, go lay in bed and pray a lot. Fingers crossed. We still try that one. It's interesting because they compared all these different methods, because a lot of them, too, would depend on where some of the doctors
Starting point is 00:14:35 immigrated from. German doctors did a certain thing. And French doctors did a certain thing. And they compared who did the best. And it was, I mean, nothing really met. Nobody was doing anything that helped. So everybody came out the same. Everybody's, everybody's odds were pretty much equal.
Starting point is 00:14:50 So I would go with the champagne and oyster one, if it were me. Yeah, I mean, all things were beautiful. Yeah, all things were beautiful. So in the day, as I mentioned, pharmacists were making their own meds. They would mix them from plants or minerals or even insects, whatever, they would make their pills, they would mix them from plants or minerals or even insects, whatever,
Starting point is 00:15:05 they would make their pills, they would make injectable ingredients and things that you could, and then give you the hypodermic needles stuff that you could inject. They had the, if you go to the museum, you'll see these, the big bottles that are filled with like multi-colored fluids and liquids and things, and they were called snow globes, not like we think about them, not like snow globes. Yeah, I know they weren't the literal snow globes. But they would like be used to like attract people in because you'd look and go, wow, look at that giant bottle of multi-colored medicine.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I've got to give me some of that. So there is a Thai pods of their day, right? More like that. So powerful. You know what? I would love like that. So, colorful. You know what? I would love some medicine. Hey, I love it.
Starting point is 00:15:48 I love it. I love it. I love the human's work that way. That's so colorful. I got to go in and get some medicine from that guy. It's how barber poles work, right? Yeah, that pole is colorful as heck. These were.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Gotta get some blood out of me. These were reminiscent of barber poles. This was the idea. It was the same. It was actually gotta get some blood out of me. These were reminiscent of Barbara Pals. This was the idea. It was the same, actually the same principle of a Barbara Pals. It was like, here's a multi-colored thing in the window to go. Oh, I like the colors. I'll get some medicine. So DeFilo himself was not content to just operate
Starting point is 00:16:22 his pharmacy and take care of people that way. He also joined the Howard Association, which was sort of if you think of like a precursor to what the Red Cross is. Same kind of idea. It was an association of like doctors and nurses and social workers and then just good people who got together and would like go take care of people in their home. He spent like a lot of time volunteering his time and taking care of people in their home, and he spent like a lot of time volunteering his time and taking care of people.
Starting point is 00:16:47 So he's a really good guy, and he donated a lot of money back, and really like used his position as the first licensed pharmacist in the US to do a lot of good for the community. If you hear about the pharmacy, as I was reading about it, and like learning about the history,
Starting point is 00:17:02 you're always gonna like, at the end, they wanna tack on like, and also it's haunted. That's it. That's it. You gotta think about though, run the, run the satch folks. That's a lot of old timing, medical stuff. There's gonna be some ghosts in there. I mean, ghosts are gonna get in there.
Starting point is 00:17:21 I didn't like to dwell on that, because it's supposedly haunted by the guy that he sold it to. So not DeFilo or his family because he actually, the pharmacy was downstairs and then his family, him and his family lived in the apartment upstairs. It's actually haunted by the guy who he sold it to, who was a pharmacist and kind of... It's not actually haunt. No, I'm not saying it's haunted. I'm saying this is the... Supposedly haunted. Supposed allegedly haunted.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Weird twists for solbos. Very hard on fake medicine. Very easy on ghosts. I'm still just a doctor. I have absolutely no expertise in that arena. I'm not saying it's haunted. Not saying it's not. No, I'm just saying that the story goes that Dupas,
Starting point is 00:18:09 who bought it from Duffilo, actually, is the one who haunts the place now, and he was into some shady business. But I'm not gonna dwell on the ghosts. I wanna focus on what the museum is and some of the neat stuff, because we got to go there. Yes. And if you haven't been, you really should check it out.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Like I said, it's two floors and the bottom was where he actually operated and like sold all of the medicines and you can see all that stuff. And then the top floor, which also has a bunch of the medicines and stuff from the day, was originally where they lived. It's very, it's like incredibly, I don't think I've ever seen a museum like this that is so dense with stuff.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Like literally every inch of this place is like, I kept calling Sydney over like, sit, sit, sit, you got to see, they've gotta look at this wild, you know, breast bump or what have you. It's crazy, you got to see it. It was great, we brought our kids and Charlie walked over to a picture and went, is that a gummy worm?
Starting point is 00:19:04 And I said, no, that's a leech. And she said, well, what's that? And I was like, not candy. And then she was done, I think. Yeah, then she went out. She was done. Maybe a fountain. Can I go outside?
Starting point is 00:19:17 Can I go outside? It's not gummy worm. I'm actually going to go play in that fountain. I don't know what mommy's into, but I'm not into it. There's a wonderful courtyard, which would have been used at the time most likely to grow herbs and things for the medicines that DeFilo was making inside.
Starting point is 00:19:35 So that whole courtyard would have been like a garden too. And that would have been pretty typical for a pharmacy of the area to have your own little herb garden to grow all the medicines that you were going to sell. Some of my favorite things. So first of all, there's a letter from a drugist of the era announcing it was another drugist, then to Filo, but just kind of to give you a flavor
Starting point is 00:19:54 of what would have happened when a new pharmacy opened, announcing to the public, like I'm opening a pharmacy. And at my pharmacy, I will be selling drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, stationary cigars and soda water. So everything. The name was Cedric Vesuvius Sinclair. C-V-S.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Thank you. It's not a big deal. That's where that joke was going. I hope you all liked that one you. That's not a big deal. That's where that joke was going. I hope you all liked that one because it's not in the recorded version of the podcast. That one angle made the MP3. It probably did. If you're hearing me say that, that wasn't an error. I liked it.
Starting point is 00:20:44 And I added the shows. I liked it, and I had it at the shows, and now it's in there. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! His name was Bill Walgreens. So I'll just cut that in.
Starting point is 00:20:55 That's just a magic of editing, folks. So, initials are CVS. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! You can keep saying it, but it's not And this is where CVS. LAUGHTER CHEERING CHEERING You can keep saying it, but it's not landing any better.
Starting point is 00:21:10 It's a creeper. It's creeps up. You're going to be driving home like, CVS, okay? Nice. Like the pharmacy. Nice! The medicines, the medicines, that ask you let my God move on the mountain. So what's neat is that it's really cool to go there and see medicine of the day was a mixture.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Because as I said, this was like a crossroads where there were people trying to push for scientific basis of medicine, like of diagnosis and treatment, and what are we doing, and why are we doing it? Let's all do the same thing. Let's not just keep giving opium, because it makes our patients feel good.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Let's try to do science. And at the same time, it was still a business. And people were still trying to make money and get people to come back. And so, they're also selling things that don't work, but are very popular at the time. So, if you go, you'll find this whole mixture of like medicines and like big, like I said, like the big jars with different liquids in them. You'll see like the opium and cocaine and marijuana and tobacco and all those things. There's a
Starting point is 00:22:19 soda fountain because it was very common soda at the time was used as like a medicinal beverage, various, you know, sodas. So there's a soda fountain where you can go get medicine. But you'll also find things like, like voodoo charms and greg Greek kind of things, like amulets to protect you, that were also sold in that same pharmacy alongside like some sort of ampule of medicine or hypodermic syringe full of medicine. And so it was a really neat time. There's also all kinds of equipment.
Starting point is 00:22:45 You can see like tools of the era that would have been used, like a trepidermic drill, you know, to drill a hole in your head, which we tell you not to do. But if you ever wanted to do it, now you know where you can pick one up. There is one there. They won't let you use it. I, a lot of the things I had heard of before,
Starting point is 00:23:05 as I was wondering through the museum, but one thing that I found that I thought was really interesting, I'd never heard of, they have a collection of pills that are coded in gold or silver. And I was aware, we've talked about on the show before, that both gold and silver have been used as medicine in various forms for different things through the ages. But that's not what these pills are for. This is for the aesthetic quality of coating your pills in gold or silver.
Starting point is 00:23:34 So they were specifically aimed at like the wealthy clientele to say like, I know those aspirin look good, but would you like them in gold? So you could upcharge rich people by coating their medicine and gold or silver, and they would be more likely to take them. The thing about it is that the gold and silver, I mean they're not doing anything, you're not digesting it, you're not breaking it down. So there's a chance that these pills are not actually being absorbed in any way. Great. So whatever you coded in Gold or Silver, I mean, let's be honest, it probably didn't work anyway.
Starting point is 00:24:12 Just be honest on the time. Right, because it was probably Dustin cocaine. But even that, you probably weren't absorbing because it was coded in the Golden Silver. Oh, I guess you would see that though when it came out. Is that a pail? A pail?
Starting point is 00:24:26 A pail? And it would be a very impressive bowel movement the next day. A very impressive bowel movement. I hope that was on the bottle. When you don't want to get better, but do want a very impressive bowel movement. Preach for you. We've done a show before. We've talked a lot on the show about the concept of hysteria, which was this, I mean, it was a fake disease that often women were labeled with because they weren't behaving in a way that society wanted them to behave at that time in history.
Starting point is 00:25:05 But I specifically, I was interested in a section I saw about hysteria of the nose and throat, because I've never heard of it as like hysteria of a body part. It's usually like that person is hysterical, so give them opium. That's usually what you do, just give them opium. But this was specifically aimed at hysteria of the nose and throat, and it was this whole description from a doctor from the 1800s saying, now sometimes, and again, it was aimed at a woman, sometimes a woman will say she's lost her sense of smell,
Starting point is 00:25:37 and I don't believe her. So, I think it's hysteria of the nose. Her nose is hysterical. And what he proposes is- No wait, before Sydney finishes, if you're a dude in the room, take my advice. Remain perfectly still until this section is completed. Make no movements or facial expressions or say anything.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Remain perfectly still. All anything, remain perfectly still. All right, Sydney, continue. What he goes on to propose is that it would go away on its own, but what he would do is a fake sort of operation to make her think he did something, and then it will definitely go away because you've tricked her. That's outrageous.
Starting point is 00:26:27 That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's outrageous.
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Starting point is 00:26:53 I missed those. They're exactly what you think they are. I can. But I like... They're... They're... They're... They're butt...
Starting point is 00:27:04 They're buttplugs? They're buttplugs. They look like buttplugs, and then... They're buttplugs. They look like buttplugs. They're buttplugs, folks. Old, old, timey buttplugs. A buttplug by any other name would smoke. We shant. We shant. We shant.
Starting point is 00:27:20 I liked the word, but challenging ideas, solvotes. That's a good description. That's probably somewhere in our iTunes reviews. I would prefer they curse. Honestly, I would rather they curse. But I like specifically, so these rectal dilators, I looked like what were these for exactly? And on the display, it says they are for the permanent cure of piles that would have been hemorrhoids. Constipation, nervousness, dyspepsia, sick headache, naralgia, rheumatism, insomnia, asthma, indigestion, eczema, all disease caused by sluggish circulation,
Starting point is 00:28:00 malnutrition, defective elimination, and the use of cathartic drugs. All of thatartic drugs. Yeah! Woo! Woo! Woo! All of that can be solved. Hey, beloveds, if you want a cure-all, try honey. Huh? Maybe honey would be better than that.
Starting point is 00:28:20 I did. I appreciated there was a section on homeopathy. We talk a lot about homeopathic cures on saw bones because they don't forget to do the airquakes. They don't work. Yeah. In case you're not familiar, homeopathy is when you take something and you put it in some water and then you take a drop of that and put it in some water and you take a drop of that and put it in some water and you take a drop of that and put it in some water, and you take a drop of that and put it in some water. And you sell it at Walmart for $8. You have a bottle of water. Yeah. But it has other words on it, and then you sell it to people. So it doesn't work, but there's this plaque kind of commemorating homeopathy in New Orleans.
Starting point is 00:28:56 And the first homeopathic doctor was a doctor taffed who came in 1853 and made a ton of money selling homeopathic things, treatments, whatever word you want to use, homeopathic things for a year and then died. But in that year he made a ton of money. And what did he die of? It was during the Yellow Fever epidemic. So I'm... Oh! Fan favorite, yellow fever!
Starting point is 00:29:28 Anyway, homiopathy. My favorite part is that there's this whole, there's this story of homiopathy. And then they get into that there was another doctor who started proposing dosimetric granules, which were like very tiny little amounts of plants, but he was like, it's better than homeopathy, because there's actually plant material in this tiny granule that I'm gonna give you. It's still very small, there's no way it does anything,
Starting point is 00:29:54 but it's not water, so it's better. And he described homeopathy, this was my favorite description ever of homeopathy. It is throwing a milligram of a substance somewhere in the same at the place where the river enters Paris and drinking a few drops of that same water where it comes out. That's Homiopthi. Or bottling that and selling it at Walmart.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Again, it's right there. In addition, some other, what I like to think of as fun things, and then as I was listing my fun things from the museum that I would recommend, I thought, I have this, I'm strange. There's also like some great metal catheters, if you want to see of a time when we would catheterize your bladder with a metal tube, you can see those. There's a giant leeches jar. I don't think there are leeches in it now. Yeah, aren't I looked. But I did, you did. I did. That's right before I left to the go of the courier.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Remember when you excused me to the patio? You told the kids to take me out to the patio. There's had a call. Oh, we were stoked to see had a call. And a whole plaque about closing the little blunk. I was so stoked to see Hattacall. And a whole plaque about cousin Dudley LeBlanc. I was so stoked to see Hattacall. One of our favorite patent medicines. One of our favorite patent medicines. Everybody's got their favorite patent medicine. And ours, one of ours is Hattacall. Along with Lydia Pinkham's vegetable compound
Starting point is 00:31:16 for female weakness. It's like our number two. It's like our number two. There should be an all-girl punk band called Lydia Pinkham's vegetable compound for female aidants. And then my other favorite, there was a breast pump from 1870.
Starting point is 00:31:36 I just personally appreciated this. As someone who has used a breast pump many, many times in my life, this breast pump was essentially, it was, I mean, it's not, it's not painful. It was like a, like almost like a syringe pump with this very small collecting thing at the end, and you would just pump, sort of like a chombone kind of a... to use the suction, to get very small amounts of breast milk that could go off the boat. It was so small that I assume you had your baby there, like, go ahead, drink up out. All right.
Starting point is 00:32:05 Clean it out. But if you haven't checked it out, you should really go check out the Pharmacy Museum. You can get information, pharmacymuseum.org. You can get information about their times and prices and all that kind of stuff. But I would really recommend it, because it was amazing to see all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:32:21 It's a wonderful collection. It's right here in New Orleans. So, good job, New Orleans. And good job for having us here. We've had such a good time. You have no idea. It's been such a blast. And you all have been so fun too. So thank you to the Orphium Theatre for having us. And thank you to Paul. And thank you to the taxpayers for the use of our song Medicines
Starting point is 00:32:42 as the intro and outro of our program. And thank you to Yellow Fever for getting the biggest share of the night. Anyway, that's gonna do for us until next time. My name is Justin McRoy. I'm Sydney McRoy. And as always, don't drill a hole in your head. Alright! Maximumfun.org
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