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Podcast: Ridiculous History
Episode: Serious Diseases with Seriously Funny Names, Part Two: Rickets, Brain Fever, and Maple Syrup
Description: History is riddled with oddly-named diseases -- rickets, scurvy, brain fever and more. But where do these names come from? In the second part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the etymology of these strange and dangerous maladies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.