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Hysterical Medicine

Hysterical Medicine

By: Dr Joe-la DeWitt
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Hysterical Medicine explores the occasionally funny, often strange, and outrageously misogynistic history of women's healthcare. Hosted by Board Certified Ob/Gyn and amateur historian, Dr. Joe-la DeWitt, and her husband, regular guy, Matt. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not meant to be considered medical advice.2024 Hygiene & Healthy Living Physical Illness & Disease World
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  • Modern Comstockery
    Apr 22 2025

    Zombies are dangerous. I don't mean the ones on The Last of Us or The Walking Dead. Sure, they are scary, but they are fiction. Comstock and his law are very real, and - somehow - that law with the sole purpose of governing the behavior of adults acting on their own and hurting nobody - is still on the books.

    For our final episode of the season we discuss legal scholarship and why it is so critical for the next 3 1/2 years as rights to healthcare and access to safe procedures and prescriptions are being stripped from women at an alarming rate. Listen and find out why we absolutely must Kill the Comstock Zombie or risk a massive list of much bigger problems.

    Thank you for staying with us for season 1! Please spread the word and let others who feel like we do know about this information - especially this last episode - as it's so important for all of us to stay educated while we are being dragged into a new dark age. See you in Season 2 starting in August! Feel free to find us on TikTok between now and then or shoot us an email at HMedPod@gmail.com - especially if you want a sticker!

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Anthony Comstock: America's Busiest Body?
    Apr 15 2025

    Anthony Comstock was very invested in policing the activities of others. He was obsessed with it, really. The United States was a wild place around the time of The Civil War and old Tony just wanted to be the best dry goods merchant he could be - after he tried his hardest to single-handedly eradicate "vice" that he saw as the scourge of all humanity.

    Come along this week for part 1 of 2 in our double episode that wraps up season 1. We will tell you all about Comstock, his absolutely bonkers obsession with other people's lives and activities, and begin to discuss why it is critically important this very day that we learn about him, so we don't let people like him do what he did to try to suppress EVERYTHING he thought was amoral - which was a lot.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Freud, Princess Bonaparte, and The Big "O"
    Apr 8 2025

    Napoleon (yeah, that one) had a great grand-niece who was REALLY into the female orgasm. She did a whole lot of research, writing, and even surgery to try to "fix" it. Of course she enlisted the help of Dr Sigmund Freud in her quest, but he couldn't figure out how to fix it either.

    Join us this week as we explore this distant relative of the Emperor and how she managed to care so deeply about such a personal subject, that she was willing to go under the knife so she could experience something that almost no woman does, because men called it "normal".

    Have you had your orgasm today?

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    1 hr and 18 mins
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I love the historical content and the context in which it's delivered. This Duo is absolutely hilarious, and as a twin mom makes me greatful for not being pregnant in the 1700s. Haha

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