Episode 17: Christmas Day Special: Button Batteries

 

Listen to Episode 17: "Holiday Killers - 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

 

Listen to 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

 

Listen to "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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