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Has been allowed to pile up by a private disposal company the Environment Agency says health care environment services has breached its permits his own health editor Hugh Pym ministers have been meeting through the COBRA committee to try to draw up contingency plans so this operator stops its contracts they'll be somewhere else to get rid of the waste and they're saying there is no risk to the public or patients but Labor have been saying tonight well hang on this was known about in July why was Parliament not immediately told government sources say they needed time to drop the continuance he plans this disagreement in the US Senate over an F.B.I. 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Oil terminal of the fishing grounds and I think it's quite important we're in the right place and sure the islands genuinely are and that with the sport his team stand Arsenal made to 8 wins in a row after a 3 male victory Karabakh in their latest Europa League group match Chelsea just scraped past Hungary in Champions viddy one nil at Stamford Bridge Rangers with 3 woman as a home to Rapid Vienna and 10 months Celtic lost 31 at Red Bull Salzburg 18 year old Bruce Utah and winger Jaden sung show has been given his 1st in them color by manager Garros Southgate for the nations League matches against Croatia and Spain less to City's James Madison and Darby County Loney Mason mounts have also been selected for the 1st time Kent all rounder Joe Denly has been named the players play of the year at the Professional Cricketers Association Awards series all the pope took home the young player of the year price and like it is Sophie Ecclestone won the women's play off the summer Warrington are into the Super League Grand Final of to defeating sin heavens $1813.00 at Lang Tree Park and England's Mike Wallace and Australia's Marcus phrases share the clubhouse lead after the 1st round at the Scottish Links Championship their own 4 under par this is B.B.C. 5 Live on digital online smartphones and Summit has taken a. 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Good morning this is up almost every Thursday into Friday it's the 5th of October 5 past 3 now I'm Lisa McCormick like coming up in the program before 4 o'clock now if ever there was a book title is going to grab your imagination it's got to be the mystery of the exploding teeth and all the curiosities from the history of meds and it's my fault but it's actually a really good reading it today yesterday yeah yesterday officially I have been speaking to the Author Tom Morris as well so we'll hear more from him in the program a bit later on but before that it's time for your weekly dose of North American sports has James Wickham and Joe Long Kemba Walker. Hello and welcome along to our North American sports show this week we're focusing on baseball and then we got a fascinating look at coaching in the N.F.L. With Phoebe's check to all of the Buffalo Bills Now James I haven't got you a theme to start the show however Yeah I know you kind of help how did this responsibility over but I haven't failed because I have got you there yes. But. If you look at the fires you've got to pick up the furnace go. Right through. Thanks to N.B.C. Sports for that and gritty in the week that the Philadelphia Flyers announced their new mascot the aforementioned gritty the world went nuts everybody of this guy I even read about him in a paper here in the U.K. Have yes seen him on has he given you know him as yet now I think it looks amazing I absolutely love it it's genius you know I do you know what it reminded me of instantly it reminded me of Kingsley Kingsley is I do yeah Partick Thistle Zz skull just looks terrifying you know and bizarre and old but pretty pretty pretty like one of the Muppets he is and supposedly I only learned they see the day the gritty word came out of being shown a load of different characters to a load of school kids and they picked gritty as the one that they liked the most which slightly terrifies me about the school kids in Philadelphia because if you liked him the terrifying Well you know that's what they say about the school kids of Philip you know they were writes. Some B. Ball outside of mind Kerio if you want some fun online just go just Google gritty and just go and have a look at all the incredible places that they must. As a paid all the various sports stadiums all the various events and see if you can find the Twitter thread where somebody has just in a genius way put gritty into iconic film moments of past films gone by it is brilliant and well done Philadelphia flies this is exactly what the N.H.L. Needs now some other headlines if we go any further I guess to disassociate myself from the claim if you'd like some form online go and search critique general as I said as I said I was thinking I don't know well moving on and some headlines there are not so good for the N.H.L. Tom Wilson has decided the best way to repay his Stanley Cup winning club for a rather expensive $5.00 and all of the Sixes $1000000.00 contract was to flatten St Louis Blues Oscars so inquest and almost certainly get a suspension the time of recording this program he hasn't got one yet but it's almost inevitable he will go to Herring in New York but James have you seen the hit I have because he told me to watch it and it's brilliant No sorry I mean it's it's a polling station on ice hockey isn't this the point of ice hockey it's a really interesting point of ice hockey that everybody just beats each other up so it's an interesting point I think I saw he's trying to move away from that stereotype and trying to move away from that and things like this don't help the worrying thing and I think the thing that a lot of fans have got very worked up about is the fact that Tom Wilson hits this guy without him even knowing the hit was coming it was to the head which the N.H.L. Are trying to compose lately get rid of much like a lot of the stuff that happened in the N.F.L. The N.H.L. Are really trying to protect those players heads which rightly they should be doing and they stress goes all against that and I think it's going to be it be very interesting to say by as I say by the time this goes out we may well know his punishment but I think this is going to be a big moment for the N.H.L. To play safety and they need. To get this right yes you're absolutely right shall we shall we move on slightly Yeah let's talk about something that was just incredible over the weekend right we've got to talk about Patrick Mahoney and he is just I mean it's so exciting that's the thing I've got and I think sport is best where you get an exciting moment for whatever reason this young quarterback the Kansas City Chiefs who's being led by a guy got Andy Reid who's coming up with some great plays but not only that these are plays that suit him so essentially what's happening is Patrick Mahoney this is a guy who's got you know the arm of a giant great laser I think. Cyclops kind of it's incredible that the moves he's pulling off the speed of his pass the ability to get it so far so quickly and we're talking about you know throws of like 50 yards it's incredible the power of this guy's got if you our live out as Kansas City have done and you ally that with a wide receiver like Tyreke Hill who is basically a bit like Road Runner running away from the Acme factory. As. He is Speedy Gonzalez It is extraordinary those 2 together there's a great pace on the athletic which I know both of us read now and thank you for the average because it's really good writing you welcome but there's a piece on there where they're talking to loads of different. Experts N.F.L. Experts about how you stop the Kansas City Chiefs off ends. I mean you've got about 10 different experts basic where you could try this and you could track but I don't know it's extraordinary they are so good and this week and the reason is in a new section as much as anything is because we had one of the plays of the season so Benvar Broncos playing against Kansas City Chiefs Denver blitz so they basically all head towards Patrick Mahoney he breaks out of the pocket which is the bit behind the offensive line that's the that's the big blokes basically try and stop the other guys from getting to the quarterback so he runs out of the side of this he's about to get tackled he transfers the ball to his a left hand throws it. For about $1520.00 yards his wrong hand goes perfectly out for a 1st down this guy is a genius and I think we're seeing a changing of the guard when it comes to quarterbacks at the moment we're talking only last week about Baker make field where we at they were evil and browns you're talking also about people at some Donald who's come in and now you've got this guy who looks like he might even be the best of the law when you look take into consideration that some of the really top quarterbacks the franchise quarterbacks are struggling this season see Tom Brady the New York Patriots New England Patriots then maybe we're seeing a changing of the guard in the N.F.L. I watched him against my team San Francisco the other week and I was just amazed watching him he turns plays which look like he's going to lose and looks like he's going to get sacked in 2 touchdowns the guy's incredible yeah and they really don't know I should point this out teams do not know how to deal with him it is absolutely incredible Can I bring you one more I didn't mention this to you before but come on you all story that I really think we need to talk about a little bit and I can tell you very little about this except there's a guy playing for the Washington Nationals who says Max Sure sure sure. Sure. Thank you he has basically. He's a he's pretty he's a pitcher he struck out 10 batters to give him 300 on the season he's doing incredibly And this is something that happens very infrequently happened once last season has only happened I think about about 9 times in the whole of baseball it's an extraordinary achievement he is doing incredibly incredibly well the rest of the if you look at all the other details of what's happening in baseball there's lots of statistics so I can't really read about them but I did see him he's done. Really well we'll bring you more on baseball very short because we've got the World Series on the way well the season anyway Khamenei coming in October yeah baseball love their stats just one quick thing before we do talk baseball next week on the show we are going need to keep an N.B.A. Case a if you've been with us since week one of our show you remember we had a very talented guy called Jake Lloyd on who explained beautifully to me and James why we should care about basketball and he's a huge Detroit Pistons farm but also a kind of love of the game we're going to get him on next week and he's going to give us the big season preview just before the guys start next week so you've got all of the big stories in the summer like Le Bron James moving. Stuff but he's going to give the big kind of set up to the season that will be on next week's show now shall we move on to baseball Yes. But. The man in. The school the. Past and you. Especially with. This sport is part of the Society of America just think about this where have you gone Joe Dimaggio a nation turns its lonely eyes to you What's that you say Mrs Robinson Joltin Joe has left and gone away some of the most iconic lines of pop music history from Paul Simon of course you think also of people like Charlie Brown I mean this is a sport that is in comic books it's in popular music it's in coach or absolutely everywhere if you're American you're probably involved in some way with baseball you get it. But if you're British How do you get into the gate but that's what I asked a guy called Joey mellows he is the baseball Brit he's just been to watch hundreds of games in the U.S. And across the world he's now obsessed with the game and I asked him how he got started baseball only came into my life in 2015 so we're talking just over 3 years ago I was on holiday and yeah I mean that's a big change in your life then because I've seen the list of you know the matches you've been to while you're in the U.S. And we go into that in a minute but there's a lot of them so what was it about 2015 like that meant baseball suddenly arrived. I moved out of the U.K. In 2014 and I moved to East Asia to South Korea and so and you know the time difference there 9 hours ahead of the U.K. So staying up the Premier League games got very difficult you know 3 o'clock starts at midnight and stuff and I was getting quite tired so essential I stopped watching football just because the time difference and I needed something to fill that gap baseball was the team sport in South Korea. My uncles Japanese anyway say I was even Japan on holiday in 2015 I went to a game with my parents one night in a soccer didn't understand any of it all the numbers and everything they fascinate me and I was hooked Yeah well that's the thing isn't it about baseball when you come to it 1st off and you know I'm a massive cricket fan I've made dough no shame about on the program and aren't sure when people come to cricket 1st off they look at the numbers and go what's going on Same with baseball so how many matches did you watch we for you thought OK I've I've really got a handle on this. To be honest it's still you know there's still every night I'll see something where I have to kind of double check on google or something exactly what's meant to be given so I'm still learning and that's the fascinating thing about baseball it's so deep and diverse in terms of the plays that you can expect to see for example I've never seen a live triple play and they're incredibly rare I haven't seen and they. Haven't seen a perfect game so there's all these things I'm still you know each night I go out maybe I'll see it tonight so obviously you mentioned 3 things there which I feel like we should explain for the British audience 2 of which I thought were were fairly obvious a perfect game so just tell us exactly what that means perfect games when when a pitch starts and finishes the game without giving up any base from his so that means no hits and it also means no walks yet which you can imagine is pretty rare and then you've got the no hitter. It's essentially very similar but the pitch or selection of pitches don't give up any hits in the whole game yesterday homerooms you made well and base it but they they can allow walks within a no hitter they can still you know 34 balls and the guy gets to 1st base and that doesn't ruin a no hitter but that would ruin a perfect game OK fine now the other one you mentioned I don't think I've ever heard of so what was that. A triple play is when you get in each in each half of the inning you need to get 3 out and triple plays when you know just one play involves $33.00 outs perhaps someone hit or perhaps. On a fly ball or something where they're able to tag runners and thing so it's just very rare where on. One play appearance you can get 33 people out so those of things you haven't seen but what about the things you have a minute you send me your list of things you've been to say starts on the 3rd of the 3rd this year Australia versus Japan takes in matches like the L.G. Twins vs do sound bears and the Knicks and Heroes vs the do some of that name in next and heroes what a great name for a day and then after all this there's loads of other games not just you know major league games as well but the Lange cast to barnstorm is the Sugarland Skeeters start making these names object. Say of the 75 games now this this summer and most of the. Major league baseball games which I guess is what the people back in the U.K. Would have heard about and I think 39 out of 75 were independent baseball and then because I was living in Korea and I was in close proximity to Japan our source in games there was well do you have a T.V. . I mean when I lived in so my local team with the twins but now I'm in the USA my team here in the Kansas City Royals fine I did wonder whether it might be the being to room book ponies I mean that's a nightmare to spell you know. Being known to you know only that they actually put the reading fighting Phils which I lowed I was just wonderful Was there a place you went to this year and in all of these matches that you just found yourself feeling completely at home that you absolutely loved. In terms of ballpark experience are so the most at the Coliseum in Oakland home of the athletics it's falling apart and it's run down but it really reminded me of the baseball stadiums I kind of attended in South Korea when I 1st fell in love with baseball say from that perspective you know the Colosseum was very much where I felt most at home but not the area you know it's pretty it's a pretty dicey place but despite that you know is that kind of that kind of feeling that you wanted from from baseball and so you know in terms of the players is there a particular player that you kind of you're following and you think is just amazing at the moment. I'm not too much of a fan boy really you know I don't get hung up too much on single players but you know growing up in Korea or at least growing up with baseball in Korea the place of the Texas Rangers was my favorite player probably still is he just gets on base a lot he's not respect ocular but he's very effective without too much razzmatazz and if you're selling you know baseball to a pretty sure he and I think there's probably a space for it somewhere in the the British Social Scene I mean how do you go about what would be the thing you would say to British people who think well I might give baseball a go but I don't really get a weighty star. I think the most important thing is to get more baseball shown on television in the United Kingdom people on Twitter I've only been using Twitter for you know 10 months or Saber lots of people that discovered baseball when it was shown on Channel 5 in the late ninety's early noughties and at the moment it's very hard to find unless unless you're willing to drop 100 pounds on a one and I'll be a T.V. Subscriber I should point out I mean it is on you know E.S.P.N. Most nights which we can get here but only Obviously if you've got the right subscription to the right you know subscription network but yeah I mean I take your point unless it's visible it's very difficult to get into it yeah and I think we will be coming to London next year. The Yankees Red Sox is going to be a big push I'm sure some of your listeners are probably go to New York Yankees hat at home maybe not realizing exactly what the you know the logo stands for so I strongly encourage you know they they get out you know get out see the London stadium in and watch the Red Sox play the Yankees How do you pay for any time I'm going to get my my Red Sox jacket What do you call them. Out with the Arctic at the moment I'm sure somewhere I've got a feeling that. There's also Red Sox fans in the U.K. So I think I will be somewhere bringing them over. Good and so you're flying back tonight I think we're prerecorded because you may well be on a plane at the point at which we need to speak so you know when when's the next match when are you going to go and see you know the next game of baseball I mean you know it kind of cool in a difficult time because I'm not entirely sure when the next game's going to be at the moment I'm back in Las Vegas in the USA for the winter meetings Major League Baseball winter meetings that take place December the 9th the 13th so I'll be catching up with lots of you know the G.M. Is in the coaches and people I've met on the road this summer so that's that's kind of ALL next looking forward see with regard to being around baseball people again but the next game might not be until maybe next March. Brilliant Well look when you get there let us know because we love to speak to you or hopefully from a baseball stadium somewhere you know if mean Joan go away hopefully at some point or send us out somewhere so we can pretend to do some work at a baseball stadium while eating pretzels. James that we great. Say to a baseball game Thanks for having me on really interesting stuff economy makes me want to get involved with baseball on someone who for me played cricket that would be going against everything I believe in you know for my life but yeah I know I would have a go and I would go well you see I'm as you know I'm I'm cricket obsessed even so baseball just sounds like it's great fun I've been to see the Red Sox against the Yankees I did at the old Yankee Stadium it was amazing I spent most of the game watching the fat policeman the press. Loved it but oh yeah they're coming to London next season you know so maybe maybe it's worth a trip down to London town hey I mean if you know if we're still fortunate off to be doing a show my last point then surely that would be a really good trip for us to do maybe indeed but stop calling me Shirley. Sorry football. And B.B. Schecter Phoebe is really interesting actually I had a great time talking to Joe on she is a coach with the Buffalo Bills she's also half British and she's young she's in her late twenty's and I found talking to her really interesting because not only is she a coach with the Buffalo Bills but she also is the captain of the G.B. Women's team so there's a lot going on with Phoebe and what's amazing about her is that she only took up the game about 5 years ago and I asked her how she got into American football so it's been a very crazy life to be in terms of my relationship with American for. Paul being completely honest with you I never really followed it before I moved to the U.K. About 6 years ago and I moved there for a job but I'm very fortunate that I've got dual citizenship because my mother is British So I say both to just move over and now it's all easy but about 2 months after moving to the U.K. I saw an ad on Facebook for American football and because I was new to the country I thought I'd be a great way to get a touch of American culture but to have it be a way to make friends as well and I think that when you're out of your comfort zone you're much more willing to take risks so I just went for it and it's completely driven and changed my life since that point yeah what I love is the idea that you left Americans to go and get involved in American football which is fantastic so you then took the spall. You know you played and we're not talking about somebody who just took up the sport and did it kind of some of the bases when you became the captain of the G.B. Women's team I'm not quite. Yeah definitely I think you know part of it is that I got involved around the time that the program was really starting and the head coach Jim messengers come from a top down approach in terms of actually just starting a national team and from the national team we've individually split off and started our own clubs who are getting involved in universities and starting teams that way and I've been so fortunate to be able to. Be a part of such an incredible team that's really become my family and I think the sport embodies everything that I want to achieve to be in and have in my life and to be the captain has been you know one of the greatest achievements but you know I'm definitely just on a field full of leaders so I I can't take credit for any of that it's just amazing . All of it and all the girls worked so hard and you know we've got our European Championships this upcoming summer so that's currently the prize that's in our eyes sticking with the women's team when you're still involved with the man you're still the captain despite the fact you're in Buffalo so how easy is it for you to kind of deal with both roles so it's been great I mean nowadays in technology we get so much done so we actually had a practice while they had a practice last week and I'm able to watch film I'm able to be in contact with the group I'm constant contact with my coaches with our head coach and also I want to make sure that I can contribute from out here obviously not in a physical way but if there's anything that I'm learning that I can help them with that helps our program the better I'm here for the season so when I'm back I'll be able to dive right back in where I left off really and we can start our March to just developing the team you know half of the battle with any team is building that actual family element that unity and that's something that you do through perience is so if I can try and create experiences online or there is a little video chat that we can do to keep that going then that's huge Well we've got to leave it that because of time but there's more to hear from Phoebe on it's really really interesting stuff James on learning a lot about it and it's fascinating to get a coach's point of view someone who sees the N.F.L. Saw you close up an even balance she's a Brit as well yeah yeah absolutely and you know she is somebody I mean we're going to talk to her again hopefully at some point in the future and keep up to date with what she is doing but we can hear more about in next week's program under mind about if you want to get in touch with those you can do it's bbc dot co dot U.K. Hope all night a B.B.C. Doco dot U.K. Will try and answer any questions on American sport that you have and tell your friends about as because we'd like people to listen we'll be back at 3 next week the news is next on 5 life. Thank you oh those then you just do it JUST DO IT GO HOME. 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Now if ever there was a book that was going to grab your imaginations go to be the mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of math and that's something up a significant chunk of my time yesterday I had little flick through a rather my intention was to flick through it naturally probably about 3 quarters of it it's my full but it's an intriguing title of sure you'll agree and it's our next guests new book it's based on his blog which is a collection of weird and wonderful stories that are being published in medical journals of years gone by he's not a medic there was merely just a hobby for him I spoke to Tom Morris earlier well this book is kind of an offshoot of a book I published that was published last year which is all about the history of heart surgery and I got into not subject through watching a T.V. Documentary but a good 20 years ago actually probably around the time I left university about heart searching in the U.S. Called Michael De Bakey and that was an interest that kind of took Well best part of 2 decades to mature. And then eventually I did write that book about heart surgery subjects he's fascinated by and part of the research. That book involved reading a lot of old journal articles about heart surgery and the way that heart disease was treated and some East of course went back quite a long way I was reading stuff that was written in the early 19th century and what I discovered when I started doing this research was that these old journals are absolutely packed full of really incredible stories so I'm not a medic but I have been sort of immersed in that well for the last 3 or 4 years and there are lots of sort of byways and little little avenues you can go down which you're a bit unexpected and appealed to me it sort of feels to me to like it could be a little bit of a rabbit hole you said that you have in mind I can spend an artist flicking through this and then 3 or 4 hours later you think killers I'm still here it's exactly it's exactly that sort of thing and one thing about this material I mean most of the stories in this book are taken from old medical journals published between mostly between about 800 in 1900 and that was an arrow when there was this massive proliferation of medical journals medical collection general Up until about the late 18th century there was really no way for doctors to share their knowledge with each other and at some point they realized that if they were going to make any progress with with medicine to make treatments better and improve surgery and the drugs that they were using on patients they had to have some means of talking to each other comparing notes on the cases and improving their treatment methods and the way to do that was firstly learned societies to get together and discuss their cases and the other way was to publish them their results and their interesting case histories in these journals and so for most the 19th century there were huge numbers of these journals and you can pick up as you say you know you can pick up pretty much any journal from this era and there are a couple of really boring articles about you know the treatment of parties and then you just stumble across some gem which is completely unexpected often just completely bizarre and sometimes kind of hot women at the same time yeah I mean what was the I mean I think I think talk about the fashion actually in the burqa 1st moment that made you think you know what this might be something in this. Yeah I was I remember the moment very clearly I was sitting in a medical library and I was reading or trying to read a really brother boring article about the treatment of heart disease in the 18th twenties isn't it when they didn't know very much about heart disease so there wasn't very much to say and he said it at great length and I straight to the next page of this journal and there is this incredible story about a man in Winchester who had been just going about his business and he knocked down and run over by a cart laden with bricks and the headline of the story was along the lines of a case of sudden protrusion of the whole of the intestines into the scrotes them and I thought whoa hold on a 2nd I'm going to read that. And it's a kind of it's a very short report it's only a few paragraphs but it really made me and it's a horrible accident to start with it actually has a happy ending unbelievably that I was pretty much cured but I found myself going off in all sorts of directions like how on earth would you treat somebody like that in $1826.00 he's into this horrendous accident and also want to when that happened and what can you just about it. So so it was just kind of delightfully unexpected and the 2nd like my eye caught it I just could not stop reading. Clearly the other thing the commies we don't always get to the bottom of things this might be a little bit of a spoiler but the exploding teeth does remain a mystery and actually there wasn't even just one case of these people had explode in teeth Taum. Yes it's a complete it's a complete mystery and over a period of some 6 or 7 decades as well that the earliest report we have is from $817.00 the same dentist had encountered it 3 times in 3 different patients in 3 different decades and then much later you get this of the Little Russian or from of cases and then quite a lot quite a lot later even than that in the 960 S. One of the British journals looks at this again and all sorts of. And it's right in with their cases and yes the thing about that is is that. They're all sorts of things that change over time and one is actually the nature of disease that doctors encounter it's an easy to overlook this and yes you're a doctor or you're historian but I mean some diseases have simply disappeared because circumstances have changed because people have better diet because certain infections thrive only in conditions of poverty that just don't exist in the same way today and also the way that people look after their teeth has changed in the way that dentists help those patients look after teeth has changed so I mean I think the most likely explanation is that the teeth never exploded that they were describing symptoms which were actually rather more Monday in than an explosion but it does remain possible we have to be openminded there may have been some exotic condition that was existed in the early 19th century that we no longer encounter today you're right you do have to be open minded and you know you talk in my conditions that existed there may not exist now but there's also I don't know I mean I don't know a lot of medical jargon I won't lie but you must come across a lot of and just thing one asked Does that mean like the one guide to me was the. Trance a single to us such checkups Yes How did you even get to the bottom of some of the . Well I mean there's 2 categories here that if you're reading some of these journal articles from say the mid 19th century you will come across a word which is kind of obscure to label a person like myself but actually look it up in a dictionary find that it's fairly common medical jargon today but then there are all the other ones which are to say Latin words which we used say in the early until the early 19th century and then went out of years and those are the ones that are much more difficult to find the meaning of and then when you finally you know track down some 19th century medical dictionary you actually find that they have 2 or 3 different meanings and they're all contradictory so you got to the bottom of of what they mean I think my favorite specialist is one that's an American doctor. Actually coined himself and what the it's a Latin term he came up with which is par your ear erotica right and translated literally that means wandering disorder of urination. And he used it to describe a patient he come across who was a woman in her thirty's or forty's who suddenly started emitting urine from all over her body and by which I mean not not just you know the obvious places but it started coming from her navel from both breasts from both ears from both. From her stomach and I mean all sorts of other bits the body have probably forgotten but but doctors love nothing more than a good bit of jargon so as you can imagine the 19th century let's just fairly infested with it absolutely littered with that he started blogging about this 1st didn't you. Yes that's how this all started I mean what happened was I was researching this my 1st book which is a much more kind of serious poke and I started coming across these stories in the 1st couple I just read and thought that was quite amusing and after a while I realized that there were so many of these stories in that some of them were really kind of unmissable and it was a shame to waste them so I started collecting them and sharing them with people on a blog so that's how it all got going and I've collected about I mean it's a hobby now I just do it for fun and I've got something like 400 stories now collected from the from the medical literature this just be the 1st of this kind of book then. The other the for the 1st in and along in discussing series. Is there ever anything like been doing it for a few years night is you ever need anything that you read and you think Oh that's gross Oh yeah absolutely I mean that there are stories I haven't shared because I think well I mean it did start this for folks for personal museum and also in the hope of you know amusing or interesting other people and there are some which are so disgusting they sort of cross the line into actually being upset ing right I mean so to to go. An example of a story which which kind of shocked me and I did include this in the blog it's not it's not in the book but the reason I decided to write about in the end is it does shed light on all sorts of practices that not only that doctors indulged in but also just the awful reality of living in an age when when life was much more difficult so this was a case in which a doctor attended a woman who was about to give birth. And very unfortunately as so many child birth birth instance did then it went badly and the child died and there is a horrendous description of the doctor actually having to sort of dismember her child in order to get it out of her body now that is not by any stretch the imagination you know an amusing incident but I did decide to write about it simply because it's a realistic depiction of just just what a kind of grisly reality medicine used to be for such a large proportion of the population in those years in the 19th century Absolutely and I guess that's important though you know the break is quite humorous obviously we talk I mean that the title itself the mystery of the exploding teeth in all the curiosities from the history of medicine you know it is humorous but actually you've got that space in the blog I guess to give a more well rounded view of what actually was happening yes I mean. In the book there are several stories which are a little more poignant then they're not they're not there for you to laugh at I mean I think one of the most interesting is the case of a patient who is actually quite famous in the 18th thirty's and this I think sheds light on also lots of different aspects of medicine his name was who Lou He was of Chinese peasants and he came from a very impoverished village in China and he went to a hospital there which was in fact the 1st hospital set up which is offering western medicine to the Chinese at no cost to them and he had an enormous tumour which the doctors there were unable to do anything about and they raise the funds to send him to London for treatment it was the only place they thought where he might actually be able to be to receive surgery for this this tumour and I was interested because I had no idea that as early as 830 a patient would be sent home for around the world for treatment you don't think that is rather more phenomena. And it was this was a human so enormous that. Even today would be an object of interest to the medical journals and very sadly he didn't make it the surgeons decided to go ahead with the operation in the days when there was no anesthesia so it must have been horrendous experience for him but the description that appeared in the main medical journals at the time is really kind of touching the figure of who Lou the patient who died on the operating table is sort of heroic they thought they realized that he was enjoying this. Terrible experience with enormous fortitude and Grace and he becomes weirdly that the hero of this description and it was actually quite in the other reason I put it was quite an important case because it was a moment when I think the profession of surgical profession realized they'd rather exceeded the boundaries of what was proper in the operating theatre and that in future they had to think more about patient and whether they were operating on them for glory or for the good of the person on the operating table we do have a lot to thank those early pioneers of medicine for we don't wait Tom you know because another thing that I read is you know they were prescribing arsenic cigarettes at one point you know wow. There's some very strange remixes that we were being prescribed in fact there's I found this this is amazing publication that was came out for the 1st time in $1618.00 it remained in print for over a century and it was what the apothecary's shops which is the previous essence of pharmacies used to have to stop by law and some of the things they they stopped were just incredible they had you know the fat they had Badger fat and they had ox leg and they had even Egyptian mummy was a remedy that doctors used to prescribe and when it says it's money it really wasn't action money I mean that the good stuff was they actually there was a thriving trade in bits of addiction money from Egypt and there was obviously in parallel with that a thriving trading counterfeit Egyptian mummy. But even as late as the late 19th century there was one doctrine Edinburgh believed that the excreta reptiles so snake done monitor lizards various other species of lizard was a highly effective treatment for tuberculosis so yes all sorts of exotic. Exotic things being prescribed for illnesses I'm curious if you come across any cures that you thought I might give that ago. Almost certainly nothing although the occasions when a doctor hits upon something which actually turns out to be the best possible treatment I mean that the 2 famous examples are a well could mean which is known as. Well all sorts of things but it's the box that is often known as the bark which was one of the very 1st successful treatments for high fever was 1st discovered in the late 18th century and another one. Aspirin was was also quite discovered quite early so you do get some of these actually quite effective treatments being prescribed in power we asked nickel strick mean. There's a wonderful description of a. Very early heart operation where the patient was given very large amounts of brandy and it was supported after about 8 hours after the operation that he was no longer in pain but he was very drunk indeed. Fair enough fair enough that is something is a guy and that's something else I wanted to ask you Did you take I mean I've taken a bit of a life less naturally because the next time I don't want to go to the gym I think I'm just going to cry injurious excess of exertion that is a great phrase I love. Yes it's very it's very good isn't it you know there's also some very very some very good advice on the dangers of sedentary lifestyle from the 18th century which you didn't really they were very worried for quite a long time about people who did a lot of read. In writing so in the 19th century writer's cramp is a big concern to lots of physicians offering advice on how to avoid writer's cramp and what it means when you get it and you're wrong is that reading would give you eyestrain and or strain could lead into all sorts of other things diseases like strange things like kidney disease and liver disease so doctors were offering a lot of strong advice on not spending too much time reading or sitting at a desk all writing you should go and get some bracing fresh air as well some solid advice there and also some not so solid advice I would like the mystery of the exploding teeth nor the curiosities from the history of meds and it made me chuckle that's for sure I was 10 minutes away from for Iran and got the news for us of course 4 o'clock before that and the view of many of us live as it Seth who was a fashion a Russian fashion designer and I did the 1st to create some high fashion collections in the Soviet Union during a more bottom of he's been talking to Dean in human about the challenges he faced working under communism today we're going back to Moscow in the 1980s when one designer transformed the Soviet fashion industry and grabbed international headlines with his shows so as most of them were here with me there were others others what is the point of fashion design it's to give people joy the joy of connecting with beauty you see this is been the most important thing in my life Slava sites I started working in the Soviet clothing industry back in 1962 from the start he was full of creative ideas but high fashion wasn't really an option in the communist economy with its emphasis on mass production so good fashion shows featured simple designs from the cheapest fabrics like this one the 960 spring collection from Moscow fashion house. Is a MUST off for the moment they leave models of the Moscow fashion house of the 1st to open the. spring season is usual was a some a billy was funny might used to full of any human most designs a made out of cheap fabrics kata number poplin money and canvas the soviet textile industry was gay and only for mass production fabric crumbs changed once every 3 years to get a design from a drawing to factory production took 2 years but slav a sites of was impatient the soviet garment industry could not keep up with his creative output if they were than in missed your so i forgave hear the they were worse or while the we used to make for designs a miles that was ridiculous a could produce a 100 designs a month they were after the most basic ideas with a minimal of cutting us to chip for example a code could have only one dog of color which have been brief abrogated some arose you couldn't offer them any other color my job was boring and uninspiring In 1978 left to the official fashion industry and began to work out of his own private studio he was not short of work he designed costumes for Moscow theaters and even for the 980 Soviet Olympic team but he kept dreaming of high fashion is here where we will settle with a set of the ideas were pouring out at will I gathered a group of young people and we began to create our own collections in 1902 I had my own 1st show it was brilliant I bought many London where and how did died in vibrant colors in the workshops of the Bolshoi Theatre and so my models went on stage wearing nothing but underwear but no one even noticed that the collection was beautiful full of color my models were dancing it was great in 1905 with the start of Peter striker which allowed private enterprise in the U.S.S.R. Fashion stopped being a nice hobby and became part of mainstream Soviet culture Slav as fashion house was taking orders from private clients his shows grabbed international headlines and he became known as Moscow helped design. The tickets or is hard to get just as expensive as the Bolshoi ballet it's the fashion show Moscow's latest entertainment the one that can be assured of a full house as often as Russia's top designer persuaded to put his models for their place in. This fashion show filmed at the end of 985 featured collections of black coats and dresses employed as little girls. All of these designs sold out after the show it was the very beginning of the Soviet leader got about shelves biggest drug pushers only what they would have saluted as all oh do signs were so downstairs in our shop I had people queuing Ferraro's to buy my suits who had massive queues in those days a good suit and a good coat that's what people needed most the 1st private enterprise as were emerging with a. In the communist planned economy and the new class of people was appearing people who didn't mind paying 4 times the average monthly wage for opulent over the top creations the sites have a history of a design as a catering to a new class of people who have money but little opportunity to spend it. In a country hungering for individual. Sites opposite of the carrier's opportunity to project themselves else of their state approved styles. All the already in family media loved sites have shows that is on I was frustrated by constant shortages being his creative vision that I have a little bit of the nation with me but at the time the problem was getting hold of enough cloth there was a shortage of fabric so we were restricted in the color scheme working only with black is boring but I had no other colors so kept buying black fabric in order to make my designs more interesting I took long various creative techniques like appliqué or embroidery this was a lucrative business but it was not high fashion not yet anyway with. The school's sky fashion is high art it is the art of creating cost you a style which reflects its time high fashion is very stylized and the fabrics and the strong are there. If it's just off site if it's just way Moscow will become as much part of the fashion circuit as Paris London and Milan. But most of the fashion world regards such as work as well the old fashion but then that's hardly surprising for a man who until a few years ago actually lie on friends to get in old copies of fashion magazines. But in the past few months he's taken his models to New York and Paris and the changes are already beginning to show. Thing is her only thing that has killed her voice is that of the night in 89 I went to America and got hold of new Italian fabrics these were beautiful fabrics and I use them for a high fashion collection this was the correction I took to Paris and New York it went down very well working with a high quality talian fabrics the size of created a colorful collection of coats dresses and suits with massive shoulder pads as far as he was concerned that these were the styles that best reflected the spirit of the 1980s Russians had never seen clothes like these before my fashion is still well above the heads of most of his audience. There's almost no where in the Soviet Union to wear such styles and the price of a site chef creation is more than a month's salary but a well paid worker. To help his inexperienced already and so pretty shape his creations Zizou used to comment on each design as the model swayed on the catwalk he would explain his idea and the image he aimed to create and he would even suggest make up and accessories which could go with his pieces because of the of if it were it would yell at you mostly women to be real. With my fashion reflects the most striking feature of its era in the 1980s we used to make huge shoulder pads these shoulder pads created the image of a woman who was more refined more confident she was in touch with herself she was free of male influence this was the time when Zeid self became known abroad in 1988 he was the 1st Soviet designer to show his collection at Paris Fashion Week Vogue called him that sort of Soviet fashion in December 19th 1009 in Tokyo he was named among the to. 5 designers in the world the international press mentioned him alongside call Lagerfeld and then he was invited to create a perfect human followed in Russia itself remains a household name but lately he has been moving away from high fashion. School to going to the top of. The 1st was because these days there's no need for high fashion most people don't need it anymore people simply want to have beautiful clothes and that's what I make now present POTO deluxe I'm a working mom I push myself. Fashion is what gives me great joy Slava sights of still lives in Russia and designs clothes for fashion shows and private clients he spoke to me Tina Newman for with super faceted story there Slava. The 1st man to create high fashion in the Soviet Union is interesting. When you. Play for anyone else. B.B.C. 5 It's 4 o'clock this is up all night it's on 5 Live I'm Lisa McCormick the main news on 5 Live night says it's concerned about rape allegations against Christiane Iran now day and in sport as victories for Arsenal Chelsea and Rangers in the Europa League at Celtic. This is B.B.C. I am the 5 live news at 4 o'clock here's ran in Fitzgerald nice express concern I have a rape allegations against Christiane I Rinaldo I play a family denies assaulting a woman in Las Vegas in 2009 has all reports in Mich Mansfield nyc which has a deal with Christiane Arnold a reportedly worth $1000000000.00 says it's deeply concerned by what it calls disturbing allegations and that it will closely monitor the situation but his club eventis have come out in defense of their player to. Thing that has shown great professionalism and dedication in recent months and this allegation doesn't change their opinion there's been a 17 percent rise in crime recorded on railways including an increase in the number of violent and sexual offenses British Transport Police recorded around 61000 crimes in England Scotland and Wales in the last year up from around 52000 and piece of ass the bosses of leading you TAFE fashion retailers to explain how they plan to cut the environmental impact on the products they sell the environmental audit committee is concerned that the high turnover of goods is fuelling climate change.

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