A marital tour of misguided medicine. This week? A hole in the head.

Wait. Stop. Before you put mercury on that chancre, let Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin explain why that’s such a terrible idea.

Are you happy with the amount of blood in your body right now? What if we told you that you had a shot at being a happier, healthier you if you’d stop stingily trying to keep all that blood inside of you?

Looking to get back at the guy who stole your parking space? Why not launch a plague-ridden body into his home with a catapult?

Can’t get your teething baby to shut up? Can’t get rid of that pesky cough? Can’t stop being not high? This week, we fix every problem you’ve ever head through the magic of opium.

It never fails, does it ladies? The week starts off so smoothly and all of a sudden your womb starts wandering through your body. This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin help you find it as they explore the made up malady called hysteria.

Listen, nobody wants to lose a limb. Limbs are great. That said, if you’ve listened to even a small amount of Sawbones, it should come as no surprise that losing a limb used to be way, way, worse. This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin provide a short history of amputation.

You know that medical fact about how humans only use 10 percent of their brains? (OK, not a fact, but please, work with us here.) Why carry around all that dead weight? Wouldn’t a lobotomy help to lighten your brain burden? Good news: This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are taking a load off your mind.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee meet John Kellogg and investigate his peculiar predilection for yogurt enemas.

We know you’ve struggled shedding those last few pounds, but have you considered eating cotton balls? Or … blue glasses? This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin walk your through the history of dropping ellbees.

After weeks of degrading medical professionals we turn to a true hero of medicine. He revolutionized psychiatry, he signed the Declaration of Independence and he’s still influential to this day. There’s just … there’s just one tiny problem.

Hey, hey, what are you doing with that urine? Wait — You’re just pouring it in the toilet! Luckily, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are here to put an end to your wasteful ways by exploring all the wonderful, weird and mostly made up uses for urine throughout history.

If you’ve been unnerved by a pesky stork that won’t stop circling your home, we’ve got just the thing to keep babies at bay. This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin have a ton of absolutely foolproof, historically-proven methods for birth control provided you’re looking for methods that don’t work so great.

As of yet we don’t think we’ve discovered a facet of medicine humanity got so tremendously wrong as radiation therapy. Grab your lead suit and join Dr. Sydnee and Justin as they head into the reactor.

Enough! Enough of the slandering of our nation’s most beleaguered plant. Tobacco has had it too hard for too long, and Dr. Sydnee and Justin are here to set the record straight with all of the wonderful medical uses of tobacco that we’ve forgotten throughout history. Sure, we’ve forgotten them because they’re made up, but […]

Wow, this Kickapoo Joy Juice is REFRESHING. Oh, sorry listener, didn’t see you there. Ever wondered how, exactly, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root and Randy’s Dan’s Pick-Me-Up Poultice help you to shake that rundown feeling? Did you guess cocaine? Something worse? No matter what you suspect, you’re probably right. This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the history of patent medicines and let you know which ones are still on the market.

The only negative about the Pumpkin Spice Latte being offered for a limited time is that someday you will die. This means there is a finite number of Pumpkin Spice Lattes you can drink in your life. But what if that life didn’t have to end? This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin give you the secret to life (and Pumpkin Spice Lattes) eternal.

Last week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explored all the ways you, the listener, could live forever. None of those panned out for you? Never fear! This week, we’re bringing the dead back to life with a brief history of reanimation.

Listen, it’s a great hairpiece, nobody’s arguing that. But we know. We all know. Luckily, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are here to help you cast it off as we bring you time-tested, largely fake cures for baldness.

Ready to be a YouTube sensation? Not so fast, buckaroo. You’re gonna need a baby first, so you can teach it to do something adorable that you can capture in a candid moment. First step: You’ve got to get fertile, and Dr. Sydnee and Justin have a perfect cocktail of largely baseless historical treatments to help you get there.

Doctors: Who needs ’em? The answer is basically everybody. But that didn’t stop the subjects of this week’s episode from going under a knife that they themselves were holding. Join Dr. Sydnee and Justin as the meet the heroes and dullards of self-surgery.

Headaches: Widely regarded as the lowest pain way to get the sympathy due to the infirmed, they’re also one of mankind’s biggest targets for bad medicine and misguided folk cures. This week on Sawbones, join Dr. Sydnee and Justin as they attempt to get your head right.

One afternoon, Albert Einstein spent an afternoon studying a box that was supposed to harness cosmic sex energy. This happened. Really.

Planning on over-indulging this week as the holidays swallow you up like a sinkhole? Don’t worry about it! Dry out after the new year as Dr. Sydnee and Justin walk you through all the horrible ways we’ve attempted to cure alcoholism.