With all the news around fluoride, we bring the classic Sawbones episode about the benefits of fluoride in drinking water, because the science has not changed.

This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore a medical mystery: Why, for a town in Colorado, was having brown teeth a sign of great tooth health?

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/

There was a time when Popes had secondary careers (or primary ones) on to of their Papal one. This includes Pope John XXI, the only Pope to have also been a physician. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about this non-traditional Pope and his contribution to medicine in the 12th century.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/

Sawbones brings you a studio version of the show at the ye olde Harmony House Renaissance Faire. Justin and Dr. Sydnee talk about how medicine evolved in the Renaissance beyond what passed for scientific theories during the middle ages including the four humours, alchemy, and the real cause of syphilis (insulting the sun god).

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

Center for Reproductive Rights: https://reproductiverights.org/