Tag: histmed

S6, E5-“Resistance to Cannabis Prohibition, 1930-1945” with Dr. Emory Wilder

In episode 5, Dr. Emory Wilder, FHSU Masters student joins Hollie to discuss “Serpents” and “Vipers” and the resistance to cannabis prohibition from 1930-1945. Dr. Wilder covers cannabis in patent medicines, cannabis as a muse in jazz music, and the circumstances that led to discourse on a federal ban.

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Selected Bibliography:

Anslinger, Harry J. “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” Reader’s Digest (1938).
https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1930/mjassassinrd.htm.

Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana in World History. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Cohen, Michael M. “Jim Crow’s Drug War: Race, Coca Cola, and the Southern Origins of Drug Prohibition.” Southern Cultures 12, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 55-79.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26391000.

Smith, Stuff, and the Onyx Club Boys. “If You’re a Viper.” March 13, 1936. Audio
recording. 00:03:20. hTps://soundcloud.com/stella-blue-1/youre-a-viper-stuff-smith-and.

Webb, Chick, and His Orchestra. “When I Get Low I Get High.” April 7, 1936. Audio recording. 00:02:29. https://archive.org/details/JV-10685-1936-
Qmepcnc4nyXcKRPmrZTHeJGTKJ9GTuBdXVxd7JbqxZMi3e.mp3.

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S4, E 6 Epidemic Disease and Medical Relief during the Irish Potato Famine with Dr. Robert Lane

“The Famine Memorial Dublin Ireland May 2018” by Ron Cogswell is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

In this episode, Dr. Rob Lane, ENT Physician and current FHSU M.A. in History student, joins Hollie to discuss epidemic disease and medical relief during the Irish Potato Famine.

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Selected Bibliography:

Film- Black ’47

Corrigan, Dominic. On famine and fever as cause and effect in Ireland: with observations on hospital location, and the dispensation in outdoor relief of food and medicine. Dublin: Goodwin, Son, and Nethercott, Printers, 1846. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y5ydbae6/items?canvas=35.

Crowley, John, William Smyth, and Mike Murphy, eds. Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Geary, Laurence. Medicine and charity in Ireland, 1718-1851. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004.

O’Connor, John. The Workhouses of Ireland: The Fate of Ireland’s Poor. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1995.

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony, 1845-1852. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

“Famine Memorial” by Daniel Dudek is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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S2- Episode 7 “Patent Medicines in the West” with Erin Adams

In this episode, graduate student Erin Adams joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the sale of patent medicines in the west and how they used Native American imagery to sell their potions. They also discuss how the Great British Bake Off relates to Turner’s theory of the West. 

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Selected Bibliography:

Primary Sources:

Adams, Samuel Hopkins. “If It’s Medical, It’s a Swindle.” New York Tribune. January 6, 1915, 74 edition, sec. 24,888. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-01-06/ed-1/seq-1/.

Louden’s Indian Expectorant. , ca. 1848. Photograph.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001701409/.

Glackens, L. M. , Artist. The Indian Medicine Show / L.M. Glackens. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, November 2. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011647635/>.

“Kickapoo Indian Sagwa: Blood, Liver, Stomach and Kidney Renovator.” National Museum of American History. Accessed 2020. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1296185.

Secondary Sources:

Burns, Stanley B., and Elizabeth A. Burns. “Wizard Oil patent medicine salesmen. (A Pictorial History of Healing).” Clinician Reviews, July 2002, 43. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed Spring, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A90248517/AONE?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=AONE&xid=e7f78c7c

Biron, Gerry. “Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) participation in 19th century medicine shows.” Whispering Wind, August-September 2013, 6+. Gale Academic OneFile. https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/apps/doc/A347521927/AONE?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=AONE&xid=8dfc0ca3.

Rosenberg, John. 2012. “Barbarian Virtues in a Bottle: Patent Indian Medicines and the Commodification of Primitivism in the United States, 1870-1900.” Gender & History 24 (2): 368–88. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01687.x.

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