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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1992: Oxford, Harvey and Willis

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 1, 2021 · Episode: 1992 Harvey and Willis at Oxford during the English Civil War. Today, Oxford after war.

Tags anatomy aristotle Bodleian Library Christopher Wren English Civil War Galen King Charles I II medicine Oliver Cromwell Oxford University Puritans Royalists The Restoration Thomas Willis William harvey

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1972: Baghdad Batteries

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 21, 2020 · Episode: 1972 Sorting out the mystery of the Baghdad Batteries. Today, electricity in the ancient world?

Tags Babalonia Baghdad batteries battery electric storage electricity electroplating healing Hellinistic period iraq medicine Mesopotamia pain relief

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1103: How We Die

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 14, 2020 · Episode: 1103 How We Die: A surgeon comes to terms with death. Today, a doctor reflects on death and the machinery of sustaining life.

Tags adams aids Alzheimer's Disease cancer dying heart failure jefferson medicine mortality nuland psychology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 16, 2020 · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.

Tags Crimean war disease Florence Nightingale graphical displays of information graphs health care hospitals medicine mortality nursing statistics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1955: Stahl, Phlogiston, and Anima

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 15, 2020 · Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding. Today, heat as substance.

Tags anima Aristotelian essences Becher combustion medicine mind and body philosophy phlogiston Stahl thermodynamics vitalism vitalist

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 2, 2020 · Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.

Tags epidemiology George Washington Carver Infantile Paralysis massage therapy medicine polio poliomyelitis Sister Kenney Tuskegee Institute

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1945: Jeffries Wyman

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 23, 2020 · Episode: 1945 Jeffries Wyman: Science at its quiet best. Today, a quiet academic.

Tags agassiz anthropology archaeology black gorillas harvard James Russell Lowell Jeffries Wyman medicine Oliver Wendell Holmes orangutans racism science scientific revolution zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 12, 2020 · Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.

Tags bacteria cholera disease immunology koch Lister medicine microbes microbiology snow

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1341: Physiology in 1872

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 5, 2020 · Episode: 1341 A view of physiology in 1872 — not that long ago. Today, let’s look at medicine when my grandfather was young.

Tags anatomy medicine pharmacology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2511: Nostrums and Quackery

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 14, 2020 · Episode: 2511 An Early 20th-century crackdown on medical quacks. Today, quack medicine.

Tags AMA Arthur J. Cramp elixirs fakery medical reform medicine nostrums quackery science fiction snake oil salesmen tonics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1916: Anesthesia in 1848

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 14, 2020 · Episode: 1916 An inside look at the use of anesthesia in 1848. Today, anesthesia in 1848.

Tags anesthesia anesthetic chloroform ether medicine sailing sails steam-powered ships steamers the Columbian Magazine

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1014: War on Disease

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 3, 2020 · Episode: 1014 Making war on disease: a tricky business. Today, total war proves to be a dangerous business.

Tags aids americas ecology entomology medicine microbiology plague

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1917: Etienne Jules Marey

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 2, 2020 · Episode: 1917 In which Etienne Jules Marey tries to copy the animals. Today, we try to build machines that work like animals.

Tags anatomy animal locomotion biomimetics birds flight E. J. Marey france medicine Muybridge physiology Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 19, 2020 · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.

Tags Alexis Carrel Charles Lindbergh eugenics france kidneys liver Lyon medicine Nicholas Tilney organ transplants Sadi Carnot silk sutures thermodynamics Time Magazine transplantation WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1769: Niels Finsen

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 28, 2019 · Episode: 1769 Niels Finsen: A Nobel Prize for Photo Therapy. Today, light and healing.

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