Josh Clark

I don't think so.

Nice.

I think that's a great place to leave off for an ad break.

Not much, man.

So before we get back to Claire and Dora and Linda Hazard, we should probably make like a little side note here that like, although Linda Hazard's stuff was bizarre, like this, the extreme she took it to.

Like alternative medicine was still very much a thing.

We did that whole episode on the Flexner report, which basically said from now on in the United States and Europe, it's just like medical science.

That's it.

Anything outside of that is cuckoo quackery and should be persecuted and run out of town on a rail essentially.

And so this was the time when you could still be an alternative medicine practitioner.

You could still be an out-and-out quack.

And there was no law against that yet.

And this was definitely the gray area that Linda Hazard fell in.

No, we did one on corsets too, I just remembered.

That's right.

Yeah, one of the other things that is definitely old about this is that whole idea of undigested food being the source of all disease.

That's Ayurvedic in nature too.

Ancient Asian Indian medical practice basically says if you have undigested food or build up a poop or whatever in your system,

all disease emanates from that.

So even Dr. Edward Dewey was not exactly like groundbreaking with that idea.