Medical Mysteries Across History

Every patient is a teaching case, every patient a teacher. In 10 eye-opening lectures by a practicing doctor and medical educator, Dr. Roy Benaroch, listeners will walk through a series of medical mysteries ripped from history. These cases involve well-known historical figures — presidents, scientists, singers, kings, and queens — whose identities are hidden. Each case requires using detective skills to identify and diagnose the mystery patient, just like their doctors did way back when. In the process, listeners will gain fascinating insights into medicine — both the medicine that was practiced thousands of years ago and the medicine doctors practice today. In this series of 10 lectures, listeners will uncover. What are the historic and modern consequences of fever? How do doctors diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease and alcoholism? How does radiation and heavy metal poisoning affect the human body? What so-called “modern” diseases were actually documented in the ancient past? Solving these mystery cases will give listeners a new perspective on how the human body works — and on some world-changing figures never before considered from a doctor’s point of view. ©2019 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC