Category Archives: Medical

101-Bitters?

We have recorded episodes about several alcohols and their mixers but have, until this moment, largely ignored a cocktail staple, bitters. Bitter herbs have been used medicinally for centuries but have had a bit of a roller coaster ride in the last 200 years. They became extremely popular during the 1800’s with the advent of cocktail parties, to virtually disappearing with America’s prohibition period. Although a few have stood steadfast in that time many new bitter making companies are popping up. Sometimes what you need is that old-timey flavor in today’s day and age. So don’t be bitter, just try some in your next cocktail.

10 Things You Need To Know About Bitters Bitters: the Revival of a Forgotten Flavor Bitters.com Cask Strength: Peychaud’s, Angostura, Regan’s No. 5 and Why bitters matter, and recipes on how to make bitters. A Bartender's Guide to Bitters: 5 Leading Brands Cocktail 101: All About Bitters A Brief History of Bitters

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100-Four Humors?

Join us for our one hundredth episode! We read a few emails about our first 99 episodes and reminisce about our favorite moments. Then we discuss the four humors.

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100-Four Humors?

Join us for our one hundredth episode! We read a few emails about our first 99 episodes and reminisce about our favorite moments. Then we discuss the four humors.

Mentioned in this Episode:

four humors test The four bodily humors The history of bloodletting

 

098-Buried Alive?

PREMATURE BURIAL
To die is natural; but the living death
Of those who waken into consciousness,
Though for a moment only, ay, or less,
To find a coffin stifling their last breath,
Surpasses every horror underneath
The sun of Heaven, and should surely check
Haste in the living to remove the wreck
Of what was just before, the soul’s fair sheath,
How many have been smothered in their shroud!
How many have sustained this awful woe!
Humanity would shudder could we know
How many have cried to God in anguish loud,
Accusing those whose haste a wrong had wrought
Beyond the worst that ever devil thought.
With Guest Ryan Stike:

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Saftey Coffins Have people been buried alive? photo Back in 1949, This Buried Alive Stunt Went Terribly Wrong Death Myths Debunked college graduate dies after being buried alive by 10ft deep sand tunnel Epic Delusion Clothing Digging into Houdini's Buried Alive