The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families · Mick Sullivan

Life Savers

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Episode 115 of The Past and the Curious (a children's history podcast hosted by Mick Sullivan) explores three interconnected stories of people who saved lives. First, Joseph Lister's championing of antiseptic surgery and how President Garfield died not from a bullet but from doctors ignoring Lister's handwashing teachings. Second, surgical nurse Caroline Hampton — the first American known to wear rubber gloves — whose skin sensitivity to carbolic acid inadvertently triggered one of medicine's most important safety innovations. Third, Richard Etheridge and Theodore Meekins, the all-Black crew of the Pea Island Lifesaving Station who rescued all eleven people aboard the storm-wrecked E.S. Newman in 1896, despite being denied recognition for a century. The episode also announces a forthcoming Animals in History episode series and an upcoming live show in Boston.

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A warm bridge episode built around book news, a Kickstarter, and Wojtek the Polish army bear.

The episode uses its time to lay out the next book, another animal-history project headed for Heart Ally Press, and the Kickstarter meant to help bring it out.

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You want an animal-history listen with bear heroics, quiz energy, and a coming bonus series.

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