Where are we?

Hey peeps, just a quick note to say that we are still alive. The podcast is currently hibernating because we started uni again and we need to conserve energy until we get our bearings. 

Episodes are in very slow production but hopefully will amp back up once those bearings are found.

Recorded and to be edited and uploaded is a super impressive cold case solve and a crazy parasite that leads cute mouses to their doom!

Scripts that are in the works are witness testimony and false memories and zombies! (They are two separate episodes).

We are still taking requests at murderandmedicinepodcast@gmail.com

So for now... Don't be a douche. No stabby stabby. Wash your hands.

Byeeere!

Episode 19: "Typhoid Mary" Mallon

 

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Often called the "Killer Cook", Mallon spread Typhoid Fever through upper class New York in the early 1900s. We take a look into Mallon's life and what contact tracing was like 120 years ago.

 

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Mary Mallon

Image: Legends of America Website

Mary in hospital

Image: Past Medical History Website

Episode Sources:

• CDC. (2021). Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever

• Marineli, F., Tsoucalas, F., Karamanou, M., & Androutsos, G. (2013). Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever. Annals of Gastroenterology. 26(2).

• MayoClinic.org. (2020). Typhoid Fever. 

• National Geographic “Typhoid Mary’s tragic tale exposed the health impacts of ‘superspreaders’ Nina Strochlic

• Ochs, R. (2007) “Dinner with Typhoid Mary” Newsday Inc. 

• Wikipedia (2022). Mary Mallon. 

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Episode 18: New Year, New Fear

 

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It's 2023! Back in 2020 we thought this day would never come. It was the end of the world wasn’t it? But we survived with all of our toilet paper stocks intact. Somehow. Come explore past and present theories about the end of the world!

Episode Sources:

• Wikipedia
• Scientificamerican.com
• Nationalgeographic.org
• Worldhistory.org
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Episode 17: Christmas Day Special: Button Batteries

 

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It's the most wonderful time of the year, but what can turn a ho-ho-ho into a no-no-no? Find out on today's special Christmas episode of Murder and Medicine!

Image: CPR Kids 

Episode Sources:

• eMedicine Health: Battery Ingestion

• The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Kids Health Information - Safety for Button Batteries 

• Public Health Agency: Button Cell Battery Warning Ahead of Christmas

• NSW Poisons Information Centre: Top 10 Christmas Poisoning Risks

• Sethia, R., Gibbs, H., Jacobs, I.N., Reilly, J.S., Rhoades, K., & Jatana, K.R. (2021). Current management of button battery injuries. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. 6(3), 549-563. doi:10.1002/

• CPR Kids: Can you guess the top 10 Christmas poison risks?

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Episode 16: Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup

 

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Take a seat and be soothed by the magic of quietening babies with drugs. If you have a baby or know of a baby, maybe you might try Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Don't worry about the ingredients…just…sssssllllleeeep.

Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine, an 1885 advertising image produced by Meyer, Merkell & Ottmann in New York.

Above images: 

https://www.peachridgeglass.com/2013/01/mrs-winslows-soothing-syrup-oooh-so-soothing/

Digital image copyright is held by C. Wayne Weart, PharmD. For more information, please contact the Waring Historical Library.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160301135624/http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:60593

Episode Sources:

• Our World In Data - Child Mortality in the Past
• "Nostrums and Quackery; Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery". Internet Archive. Chicago, IL.: American Medical Association. 1911. p. 318.
• medicines.org.uk
• Drug Bank Online - Sodium Carbonate 
• Tanner Industries Inc. - Aqua Ammonia
• Wood Library: Museum of Anaesthesiology - Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
• “Cure-All” Medication Caused Death in Thousands of Babies. April 29, 2021. Karen Berger, PharmD. Pharmacy Times, April 2021, Volume 89, Issue 04. Pages: 56
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Episode 15: Forensic Focus - Alternative Light Source/Photography

 

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Luminol and UV and cameras OH MY! ALS is cool yo.

 

Domestic Violence Support Lines… 

(These are not emergency lines - please call the local emergency number in your country if you are in immediate danger)

Australia: 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)

USA: 1800.799.SAFE (1800.799.7233) or text 'START' to 88788

UK Women: 0800 2000 247 

UK Men: 0182 3334 244

 

Or search engine: "[yourcountry] domestic violence support"

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CrimeScope CS-16-500W

HandScope LED

Various stains on fabric from various biological fluids

Use of ALS for examining the fingerprints present on the glass surface

Episode Sources:

• legaldesire.com
• horiba.com
• godoymedical.net
• journalforensicnursing.com
• 1800RESPECT National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Service www.1800respect.org.au (Australia)
• National Domestic Violence Hotline (USA) www.thehotline.org
• Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline for Females (UK) www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk
• Mankind Initiative for Males experiencing domestic abuse (UK)www.mankind.org.uk 
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Episode 14: The Shark Arm Case (Part 3)

 

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The final episode of the story of the tiger shark that regurgitated one of Sydney's darkest secrets! Listen to Part 3 of The Shark Arm Case!

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Episode Sources:

• Shark Arm by Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher. Allen & Unwin, 2020.
• Australian True Crime Podcast #161 interview with Shark Arm authors Roope & Meagher.
• The Shark Arm Case by Vince Kelly. Angus & Robertson, 1963.
• The Shark Arm Case: Australia's Most Bizarre Murder Mystery: mentalfloss.com (Michele Debczak)
• The Great Depression - National Museum of Australia
• Wikipedia - Shark Arm
• Wikipedia - Great Depression
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