In the 1930's (and before), there was a mysterious cause of infant mortality. An astonishing number of newborns were victim to a mismatch between their blood type, and that of their mothers. Doctors at the time were not sure why this was happening. This is the story of the discovery of the cure for that condition and a man who went above and beyond for six decades to help prevent it in his part of the world.

Sources:
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)
-https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html
-https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/12/for-six-decades-the-man-with-the-golden-arm-donated-blood-and-saved-2-4-million-babies/
-https://www.npr.org/2015/06/14/414397424/man-with-the-golden-arm-donates-blood-thats-saved-2-million-babies
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_disease

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If you can believe it, watching people walk around was once a spectator sport. It was the Gilded Age and there weren't many options for sport entertainment. We'll investigate how the participants in this early sport-ish activity helped inform the more modern practices of performance enhancing substance use as we know them today. We'll touch on cycling and the physiology and medicine behind some of these ways to enhance one's sporting prowess.

Sources:

1. Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk was America’s Favorite Sport, Matthew Algeo, https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/pedestrianism-products-9781613743973.php
2. The Conversation article on Doping in Victorian Times, ​​https://theconversation.com/in-victorian-britain-the-crowds-approved-of-sports-doping-with-cocaine-82225
3. Frank Hart Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hart_(athlete)
4. Ada Anderson Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Anderson
5. Wikipedia article on Sports Doping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_sport#History
6. Guardian article on strychnine, https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/jul/21/the-cocktail-of-poison-and-brandy-that-led-to-olympic-gold-strychnine

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We said that episode one of this TV series was bad, medically and critically speaking. Maybe that's not fair. It was a pilot, after all.

We went ahead and checked out episode 2.

It was worse.

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