S1E6: Ep 6 Haemophilia | Inherited bleeding disorders | Blue Bleeding
Inherited bleeding disorders before the modern era were a death sentence. Haemophilia, also known as the Royal Disease (specifically Haemophilia B), is an X-linked coagulation…
Episode Parent: This Pathological Life
S1E5: Ep 5 Typhoid | A Pathological Addiction to Catering | The Story of Typhoid Mary
The Story of Typhoid Mary An outbreak of Typhoid occurred 1906 in a wealthy family in Oyster Bay, New York. Typically a disease of ‘deprived’…
S1E4: Ep 4 Smallpox | A Pox On Both Your Houses
Smallpox was a devastating disease described as the scourge of the world. The Variola virus was responsible for countless deaths from antiquity to the twentieth…
S1E3: Ep 3 Melanoma | The Black Tumour
In the 19th Century there was an increasing numbers of Black Tumours reported in medical literature – described as Melanose in 1806 when Rene Laennec…
S1E2: Ep 2 COVID-19 and epidemiology | Anatomy of a Pandemic
Through the prism of COVID-19 and epidemiology, we examine different epidemics and pandemics throughout history. In the last twenty years, there have been three outbreaks…
S1E1: Ep 1 What is Pathology?
Pathology is by definition: the study of disease.Pathology is about understanding. This episode uses the story of Mary Papanicolaou and her husband George who discovered…