My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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My Favorite Malady: A Mütter Museum Podcast

Mike VanHelder & Nancy Hill

Health & Fitness

Science

History

Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 13

Join science goths Mike and Nancy from the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, as they talk about their favorite historical medical maladies, mysteries, people and events. Prepare to be disturbingly informed!

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🇫🇷 France - medicine
19/01/2026
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http://muttermuseum.org/events/dark-archives-book-launch-with-megan-rosenbloom/
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https://www.scienceontapphilly.com/events/science-on-tap-untapped-at-home-66ar6-263hz-mwjmd-5zpy2-3sajz
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https://www.scienceontapphilly.com/events/science-on-tap-nagpra-and-human-tissue-collections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn
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Minijawn Seven

Friday, January 29, 2021 • Duration 11:28

A quick check-in this week, with some feedback on our SUDS episode courtesy of our favorite local medical examiner, and where we are (figuratively but also literally) with our newest museum exhibition, Unseen. Also, we're hiring a digital content intern! Come play with us...

Our newest exhibit, Unseen, is opening next Friday, 5 February 2021! Come check it out!

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Episode 7: Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome & Arsenic Wallpaper

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, January 22, 2021 • Duration 01:05:37

In this exciting episode, Nancy and Mike talk night hags, why monsters are sexist, babies that don't love hookah, Nancy's sister (a different one this time) and how she treats her gentleman callers, rebuilding your deck, dancing yourself to death, and Ireland, for some reason.

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Minijawn One

Friday, October 9, 2020 • Duration 12:16

Some corrections, clarifications, invitations to upcoming events, and also a teaser for the next full episode of My Favorite Malady!

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Jawn!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawn

The Dark Archives!
http://muttermuseum.org/events/dark-archives-book-launch-with-megan-rosenbloom/

Watch The Exorcist with Science on Tap! https://www.scienceontapphilly.com/events/science-on-tap-untapped-at-home-66ar6-263hz-mwjmd-5zpy2-3sajz

Also we didn't mention this event, but we should have! Learn about NAGPRA and human tissue collections with our collections manager!
https://www.scienceontapphilly.com/events/science-on-tap-nagpra-and-human-tissue-collections

Our opening and closing themes are Fearless First by Kevin McLeod, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Episode 2: Trench Mouth & "Weird" Gonorrhea

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, October 2, 2020 • Duration 01:04:15

On this fortnight's exciting episode: Nancy's sister catches a disease from World War 1, so we make fun of her! Also, Mike talks about getting an uncommon disease that made an ER doctor very excited. Finally, we discuss the joys of mixing caffeine and alcohol, and bone flutes. The Oxford comma was very important in that last sentence.

Thanks to Dr. George Wohlreich and Dr. Bennett Lorber for helping all of this come together.

Show notes:

La Colombe Hard Coffee: https://www.lacolombehardcoldbrew.com/

The definitive word on Kraft Dinner and ketchup @ 2:45: https://youtu.be/aynCgnbbgbM?t=165

Where Nancy sources her deer bones: http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/

Our opening and closing themes are Fearless First by Kevin McLeod, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Episode 1: Blackwater Fever & The No-Nose Clubs of 17th Century London

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, September 11, 2020 • Duration 01:03:15

Thanks for tuning into the premiere of My Favorite Malady with Mike & Nancy, a Mütter Museum podcast!

On this week's exciting episode: The mysteries of Blackwater Fever. Cocktails! Colonialism! Racism! The Vatican! Also, why there were entire clubs in 17th-century London for people with no noses? Spoiler alert: Because sex reasons. Also also, we talk corned beef hash and the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.

Thanks to Dr. George Wohlreich and Dr. Bennett Lorber for helping all of this come together.

Show notes:

Boswell's Clap: https://www.abebooks.com/9780850318562/Boswells-Clap-Essays-Ober-William-0850318564/plp

Artie Lang's nose: https://www.google.com/search?q=artie+lange%27s+nose

Our opening and closing themes are Fearless First by Kevin McLeod, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Minijawn Five

Friday, January 8, 2021 • Duration 11:16

WE ATEN'T DEAD and if you got that reference, congrats, you are also a giant nerd. We check in very quickly to let you know where we've been, and when the museum is reopening! Plus, a brief discussion of the Philadelphia accent, men yelling at or at least near Nancy, and our friends over at the Science History Institute and a really cool outdoor exhibit that they have up.

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Episode 6: Tuberculosis and Beauty & The Lazarevich Diaphanoscope

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, November 27, 2020 • Duration 01:07:21

In this fortnight's exciting episode we talk about how having a terminal lung disease makes you sexy, and also a very early, really extremely uncomfortable imaging technology, with special guest Hannah Polasky, MSc of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Also, we talk about salad tongs for babies, really unhappy places to get burned, hair dye, makeup, more hair dye, Tombstone, e-girls, and why you might want to learn the tensile strength of the human placenta.

Also, RIP to Horatio/Horatia, the last Mütter Museum leech.

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Minijawn Four

Friday, November 20, 2020 • Duration 10:12

Another mini episode with corrections, updates, and events. We talk about our impending COVID-related shutdown, an upcoming event where Nancy gets electrocuted, our friend Jill Knapp's amazing rendition of that song that's stuck in my head forever now, and a few other things.

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Episode 5: Chimney Sweep's Scrotum & Donating Your Body to (Goth) Science

Season 1 · Episode 5

Friday, November 13, 2020 • Duration 01:04:36

In this fortnight's exciting episode, we talk chimney sweep's scrotum (and a bonus malady, mule spinner's scrotum!), and how you can donate your body to us or other cool places after you die. This week we welcome special guest Rhiannon Watson, forensic toxicologist, formerly of the body farm at *CENSORED*.

We also discuss Swiss-German home invasions, the origins of common everyday expressions, arsenic poultices, bodily autonomy, bonus scrotal trauma, corpse catapults, and a bunch of other things.

Oh, if you don't normally listen through to the end of these episodes... maybe stick with this one all the way through.

Thanks to Dr. Melissa Dunphy, Dr. Alyson Light, and Dr. George Wohlreich for their help with this episode.

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Minijawn Three

Friday, November 6, 2020 • Duration 23:51

In this week's minijawn we have corrections and clarifications Also we discuss the three genders: smoking, flaming or glowing poop. As well, we go over why the bodies in Poltergeist (and many other movies) were actually real human skeletons, and not replica props as most would think, buying Bone Clones, Jean M Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series and its relation to a young science goth's sexual education, at-home skull implants, why Mike actually does know how to cook, and some teasers for next week.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clan_of_the_Cave_Bear

https://apnews.com/article/bears-arctic-caves-archive-russia-577b29734cb7ce40518eac6a5303cfb4

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/were-real-skeletons-used-in-the-making-of-poltergeist/

https://www.skullsunlimited.com/

https://boneclones.com/

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