In a way, it’s all lead up to this. Live from the PlayStation theater in New York City, we’ve finally dedicated an entire episode to Pliny the Elder, patron saint of Sawbones.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee finally kick the eating habit as they explore the often-disturbing history of fasting.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee drop out of school and have some pre-marital sex to cure their pseudo-anemia.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee have got some wicked nosebleeds, but it’s no problem: They’ve got some Doug to stuff up there.

This week on Sawbones, it’s The Trial of The Century as Justin tries to prove to Sydnee once and for all that the spleen is useless.

This week on Sawbones, a new disease is taking the world by storm and Sydnee and Justin are there to explain what everyone is so freaked out about. Well, Sydnee explains. Justin freaks out.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee really “rock out” with an episode all about the healing power of crystals. Get it? Rock out? Man, that’s one great joke.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee eat some coral in a misguided attempt to cure their heartburn (while upsetting as little of the ecosystem as possible).

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee return to the fertile land of patent medicine quacks to introduce you to Curtis Howe Springer, the King of Quacks.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee have been working in the coal mine, and paying REAL close attention to where they step in the their history of hookworm.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Sydnee harness the power of history’s longest lasting, most widespread and (perhaps) least effective home remedy. The good news about vinegar? Still great on fries.

It’s #MaxFunDrive time and Justin and Sydnee are marking the occasion with a special episode in which all of your goofiest, most embarrassing medical questions will be answered by Dr. Sydnee.

Welp, here’s an episode about poop.

Dr. Sydnee and Justin try to apologize for their poopie episode with an episode about blood. They are bad at apologizing.

In what may be the most shocking episode of Sawbones to date, we reveal the dirty truth about hydrogen peroxide: It’s maybe not so useful for anything.

This week on Sawbones, we make earwax way, way worse before we remove all of it. Well, most of it. You gotta leave some you know, it’s good for you. Eh, you should probably just listen.

Last week on Sawbones, we moved into your ear. This week on Sawbones, we’re staying put with an episoe about the dizzying number of ways we’ve profaned mice to fix earaches.

We’re back with answers to more of the medical questions so goofy you’re afraid to ask your doctor.

We continue our exploration of the ear with an examination of one of history’s most annoying (and hardest to treat) ailment: Tinnitus, otherwise known as ringing in the ears.

If you found a lump of hair in an animal’s stomach, would you first thought be “Huh, I bet that will help cure poison!” No? See, that’s why you’ll never cut it as an old-timey person. Let’s talk about bezoars!

It’s time to talk about the ailment so scary that Hippocrates told other doctors they shouldn’t mess with it: Kidney stones.

If you, like us, have been seeing kombucha everywhere, you’ve probably heard about it’s many, many health benefits. Like, SO MANY health benefits. You know what … you’ve listened to Sawbones for a while, right? You know where this is going.

Holy crap you guys, we talked to Mary Roach! Yes, THAT Mary Roach, the author of Gulp, Bonk, Spook and her newest, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, due out in early June. We spoke with Roach about a history of wrong thinking on diarrhea, why the military kept weather-related secrets from her and the Medicare code for maggots.

The presidents have, by and large, all been sick, sick men. We’re going to talk about exactly how sick as Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore presidential disease.

You probably think you have narcolepsy all figured out, but did you know that it’s also the most horrifying disease of all time? It’s true!

If you’ve ever used salt for anything other than making cold french fries moderately edible, you need to listen to this episode.

Why do doctors wear that? What did they used to wear? Dr. Sydnee and Justin answer the big questions like that, including the big one: What’s up with that little head mirror?

Is it really so bad to pop pimples? Can you cut the mold off food and eat it? Is it fatal to hold in a sneeze? These questions and so many more are answered on our latest Q&A episode!

We’re throwing a Boston Tea Party of our own as we explore the strange history of medical tea live from Boston’s historic Wilbur Theater.

Sure, it may seem like a magical plant, but just how helpful is that big bottle of green goo on your shelf? This week: Dr. Sydnee and Justin present the medical history of aloe.

It’s poison! It’s medicine! It’s both! … OK, so it’s mainly poison, but it hasn’t always been that way. Join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a brief tour of medical arsenic.

Olympic athletes swear by it, but what really is the science behind cupping? Dr. Sydnee and Justin are looking into it, and the answer might (but probably won’t) surprise you.

We’re continuing to celebrate the Summer Olympics by presenting all the weird, terrible, horrid way athletes have tried to cheat their way to winning over the years. From donkey hooves to guinea pig sperm, it’s … it’s a weird one.

Celebrities have started some pretty weird fads, but perhaps none are weirder than the one started by King Louis XIV, who made it cool … to have a fistula. Join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for this very special episode.

How did a journey that began with Prince Albert hunting for jellyfish on a cruise end with one of the biggest calamities in prescription drug history? Join Justin and Sydnee for the story of the EpiPen.

Do you really need to floss? Have you been taking your chew stick for granted? Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore those and other pressing questions in exploration of the history of dental hygiene.

If you’ve paid even passing attention to the American presidential race, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about pneumonia recently. This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin try to provide some historical perspective.

Is laughter really the best medicine? No! Medicine is. The history of how we arrived at that conclusion is the subject of this week’s Sawbones.

Justin is not the hero Dr. Sydnee needs, but he’s the one we all deserve. Because he’s finally willing to admit the dark secret he’s kept hidden for so long.

Immigrants get the job done, and that extends to curing a mysterious disease once blamed on everything from bad corn to summertime. This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin introduce you to the doc who cracked the case.

Dr. Sydnee hands the wheel over to Justin this week as he returns to his medical media series with a history of medical video games. Learn how meteors gave all dinosaurs asthma and so much more!

A lot of folks like scary movies around Halloween time, but what happens when “spooked out” becomes “legitimate medical condition”? This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin tell the story of a movie that might have gone too far.

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin delve into what may just be history’s oddest actual medical diagnosis: Frankenberry stool.

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin help provide you with the answers to all the medical questions you can muster, everything from knocking people out in action movies to tastebud inflamation.

This week on Sawbones, we celebrate the everyday heroism of The Last Chicken Pox Generation. Also, Dr. Sydnee and Justin share your best chicken pox stories.

To celebrate American Thanksgiving, Dr. Sydnee and Justin example the medical history of that beleaguered holiday treat: The humble cranberry.

Cold temperatures mean chapped lips and (for a lot of people) that might also mean Vaseline. But Vaseline is used for SO much more. Like way, way, way, way more. Join Dr. Sydnee and Justin as they talk about one of the most useful things ever invented.

It’s the perfect time of year for gingerbread cookies, but what do you do with all that excess ginger? Well, maybe put it in a horse’s butt? No, no, don’t do that. But some people do. All that and more on this week’s history of ginger.

Chapped lips are a minor annoyance, but that didn’t stop old-timey people from smushing together TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF BRAINS to rub on them. Join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a history of cheilitis.

It’s Candlenights 2016, and that can only mean one thing: Dr. Sydnee is trying to ruin Christmas again. Join her as she explains to poor, pitiful Justin all of Santa’s terrible health risks, recorded live in Huntington, WV’s City Hall!