Survival Medicine Hour: Typhoid vs. Typhus, Valerian Root, Tourniquets

Survival Medicine

English - April 06, 2015 02:00 - 56 minutes - 50.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 93 ratings
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In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour podcast, the Altons, aka Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy, discuss two epidemic diseases that sound and look similar but aren't: Typhoid and Typhus. Also, Nurse Amy discusses the various uses of valerian root in home remedies, and we begin a discussion of the use of tourniquets in austere environments.