The law allowing for the dissection of unclaimed bodies effectively targeted the poor.

“And that all changed in in 1832 when they brought in a new law that says the medical dissection of unclaimed bodies was completely fine. So if you were I mean it's basically it's it's code for extremely poor. If you're were poor then then you were fair game.”

The use of methamphetamine provided the German military with a temporary, unsustainable tactical advantage during the early campaigns of World War II.

“they're like sprinting instead of running a marathon they're trying to run as fast as they can that was the new idea you sprint you don't go slow”

The host acknowledges that regular medicine in the past was often dangerous and ineffective, driving people to seek alternative practitioners.

“I understand why people went to these like you know wacko doctors in the past where they're like ah just fast for your diseases because they went to the regular doctor and he prescribed the mercury.”

Historical medical practices involving the consumption of human remains were ineffective and should be rejected.

“keep it weird, but not so weird that you go to corpse medicine as a way to treat your ailments. It's not going to work.”

Dr. Semlvvice believed that the practice of women giving birth on their backs in the first division was a cause for the higher mortality rates compared to the side-lying position used by midwives.

“He told the doctors and medical students that moving forward, every woman giving birth in the first division should lie on her side instead of her back.”