Episode 16: The Poison Parlor

Progress has a price tag.

And in Victorian America, it was usually fifty cents.

In this episode, we pull back the ornate wallpaper of the nineteenth century and look at what was underneath. From the snake oil industry that dosed babies with morphine and sold radium water as a health tonic, to the Civil War physician who turned embalming into a national institution—and left one very specific instruction about his own burial.

Because the Victorians weren't primitive. They were confident.

And confidence, it turns out, is the most dangerous ingredient of all.

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