What 24 Hours on the American Frontier Would Do to Your Body

Описание: What would 24 hours on the American Frontier actually do to your body? From the Oregon Trail to the California Gold Rush, life between 1800 and 1890 meant sleeping in sod houses crawling with lice, eating a diet of cornmeal and salt pork that caused pellagra, and drinking water contaminated with cholera and typhoid. Cowboys on cattle drives through Dodge City survived on four hours of sleep. Miners developed silicosis at staggering rates. The most prescribed medicine was mercury chloride, and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup contained morphine. Lewis and Clark's campsites are still traceable by mercury in the soil. Buffalo Soldiers, Chinese railroad workers on the Transcontinental Railroad, and Homestead Act settlers all endured the frontier differently. Tuberculosis killed one in seven Americans. Hugh Glass crawled 200 miles with a broken leg. The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888 dropped temperatures nearly 100 degrees in hours. Germ theory arrived decades after the damage was done.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
2:11 - Waking Up at 4:30 AM
4:13 - Breakfast at 5:00 AM
6:39 - Pellagra: The Disease of the Four D's
7:37 - The Work Day: 6 AM to 8 PM
9:53 - The Caloric Deficit That Broke Bodies
11:56 - The Water Break That Might Kill You
13:36 - Cholera on the Trails
14:49 - Getting Sick & The Doctor Who Makes It Worse
16:21 - Rush's Thunderbolts: Mercury Medicine
18:07 - Patent Medicines & Frontier Dentistry
19:37 - Afternoon: The Environment Tries to End You
21:11 - Rattlesnakes, Grizzlies & Hugh Glass
22:52 - The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888
23:49 - Evening: Hygiene, Whiskey & The Mind
25:31 - Frontier Alcohol & Prairie Madness
27:53 - Not One Frontier: Who Suffered & How
28:57 - Chinese Railroad Workers & Women's Burdens
30:37 - Homestead Failures & Regional Nightmares
32:17 - The Numbers: Where the Frontier Bares Its Teeth
33:55 - Tuberculosis & Scurvy
35:59 - Your 24-Hour Tally
37:20 - The Gap Between Suffering & Understanding
38:58 - We've Come a Long Way

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