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Ep.7 Bizarre Bits from the Victorian Era
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weird, Wacky, & Wonderful podcast! Today's episode covers many bizarre trends and beliefs from the Victorian era from train induced or cured 'instant insanity' to the fabulous craze that was the tapeworm diet. I hope you enjoy!
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Sources for today's episode:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history
https://www.slam.org/blog/arsenic-in-victorian-wallpaper/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/the-era-when-poison-was-everywhere/503654/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/railway-madness-victorian-trains
https://source-vintage.co.uk/blogs/news/vampire-hunters-of-the-18th-19th-centuries
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-victorian-eras-strange-love-of-disembodied-hands
https://notchesblog.com/2017/02/21/disembodied-desire/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/27/what-victorian-era-seaweed-pressings-reveal-about-our-changing-seas
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html
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