The Dopamine and Dandelions Podcast

We’ve been AWOL for a bit, but we still love you and we have exciting new content in the making! Listen to find out what we are up to and we’ll be back very soon so watch this space!

Often called the "Killer Cook", Mallon spread Typhoid Fever through upper class New York in the early 1900s. We take a look into Mallon's life and what contact tracing was like 120 years ago.   Instagram: @murdermedpod TikTok: @murderandmedicinepodcast Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com   Episode Sources:  • CDC. (2021). Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever https://www.cdc.gov/typhoid-fever/health-professional.html  • Marineli, F., Tsoucalas, F., Karamanou, M., & Androutsos, G. (2013). Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever. Annals of Gastroenterology. 26(2). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/  • MayoClinic.org. (2020). Typhoid Fever. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/typhoid-fever/symptoms-causes/syc-20378661  • National Geographic “Typhoid Mary’s tragic tale exposed the health impacts of ‘superspreaders’ Nina Strochlic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/typhoid-mary-tragic-tale-exposed-health-impacts-super-spreaders  • Ochs, R. (2007) “Dinner with Typhoid Mary” Newsday Inc. https://orauportal.fda.gov/courseware/FD202W100/SCORM_FD202_Module_3_Microbiology/Module_3_Dinner_With_Typhoid_Mary.pdf  • Wikipedia (2022). Mary Mallon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon  • Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

It's 2023! Back in 2020 we thought this day would never come. It was the end of the world wasn’t it? But we survived with all of our toilet paper stocks intact. Somehow. Come explore past and present theories about the end of the world!     Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com           Episode Sources: Wikipedia Scientificamerican.com Nationalgeographic.org Worldhistory.org Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

It's the most wonderful time of the year, but what can turn a ho-ho-ho into a no-no-no? Find out on today's special Christmas episode of Murder and Medicine!     Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com

Take a seat and be soothed by the magic of quietening babies with drugs. If you have a baby or know of a baby, maybe you might want to try Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Don't worry about the ingredients…just…sssssllllleeeep.   Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com     Episode Sources: ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past "Nostrums and Quackery; Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery". Internet Archive. Chicago, IL.: American Medical Association. 1911. p. 318. medicines.org.uk go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB09460 tannerind.com/aqua-sds.html woodlibrarymuseum.org/museum/mrs.-winslows-soothing-syrup/ “Cure-All” Medication Caused Death in Thousands of Babies. April 29, 2021. Karen Berger, PharmD. Pharmacy Times, April 2021, Volume 89, Issue 04. Pages: 56 Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

Luminol and UV and cameras OH MY! ALS is cool yo.   Domestic Violence Support Lines… (These are not emergency lines - please call the local emergency number in your country if you are in immediate danger) Australia: 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) USA: 1800.799.SAFE (1800.799.7233) or text 'START' to 88788 UK Women: 0800 2000 247 UK Men: 0182 3334 244   Or search engine: "[yourcountry] domestic violence support"     Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com     Episode Sources: legaldesire.com horiba.com godoymedical.net journalforensicnursing.com 1800RESPECT National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Service www.1800respect.org.au (Australia) National Domestic Violence Hotline (USA) www.thehotline.org Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline for Females (UK) www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk Mankind Initiative for Males experiencing domestic abuse (UK)www.mankind.org.uk Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

The final episode of the story of the tiger shark that regurgitated one of Sydney's darkest secrets! Listen to Part 3 of The Shark Arm Case!   Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com     Episode Sources: Shark Arm by Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher. Allen & Unwin, 2020. Australian True Crime Podcast #161 interview with Shark Arm authors Roope & Meagher. The Shark Arm Case by Vince Kelly. Angus & Robertson, 1963. The Shark Arm Case: Australia's Most Bizarre Murder Mystery: mentalfloss.com (Michele Debczak) The Great Depression - National Museum of Australia Wikipedia - Shark Arm Wikipedia - Great Depression Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

Yeah, um… sorry for being AWOL… we truly are! We continue the story of the tiger shark who revealed an undercover ring of smuggling, fraud and MURDER! Join us for Part 2 of the strange case where a shark swallowed an arm and regurgitated one of Sydney's darkest secrets!   Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com     Episode Sources: Shark Arm by Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher. Allen & Unwin, 2020. Australian True Crime Podcast #161 interview with Shark Arm authors Roope & Meagher. The Shark Arm Case by Vince Kelly. Angus & Robertson, 1963. The Shark Arm Case: Australia's Most Bizarre Murder Mystery: mentalfloss.com (Michele Debczak) The Great Depression - National Museum of Australia Wikipedia - Shark Arm Wikipedia - Great Depression Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

We’re baaaaaack! Finally! With a tale about a man's severed arm that was vomited by a huge shark at a Sydney aquarium in 1935. How did investigators discover the identity of the victim? Was it a shark attack? Medical waste? Or MURDER??? And do we really know what happened to the poor man who was supposed to be attached to it?   Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com   Episode Sources: Shark Arm by Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher. Allen & Unwin, 2020. The Shark Arm Case by Vince Kelly. Angus & Robertson, 1963. The Shark Arm Case: Australia's Most Bizarre Murder Mystery: mentalfloss.com (Michele Debczak) Wikipedia - Shark Arm Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com

This week we discuss a Dr. Douche and how he thought he could get away with "the perfect murder" but little did he know that the astute skills of post-mortem examiners could uncover more than he wanted people to know…   Instagram and Twitter: @murdermedpod Email: [email protected] Blog: murderandmedicinepodcast.blogspot.com Website: murderandmedicinepodcast.podbean.com   Episode Sources: Australian Police Journal (2019). Vol73, No.3, pp136-145 The Sydney Morning Herald Dec 8, 2016. Marks & Richmond, (2007). Insulin Murders: True Life Cases. Royal Society of Medicine Press. Diabetes.co.uk Diabetes Australia Laban et al., (2016). The determination of insulin overdose in postmortem investigations. Academic Forensic Pathology. Megarbane, et al., (2007). Intentional overdose with insulin: prognostic factors and toxicokinetic/ toxicodynamic profiles. Critical Care. Wikipedia Logo images courtesy of Canva - Collaborate and Create Amazing Graphic Design for FREE! Canva.com