Let's talk about bones, baby, let's talk about jaw disease! (Doesn't have the same ring to it....)

In Episode 17 I talk about a few things that our ancestors thought was 100% normal. Spoiler Alert: It's absolutely anything but normal.

Mummy unwrappings, laws targeting disabled people, and the falsifying of Radium's purported health benefits are featured in this episode of The Rainy Book Nook's "History is F*cked Up" series.

SOURCES:

Mummy Unwrapping Parties:

https://youtu.be/pVDo2tsJeXA 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-party-people-unrolled-mummies-for-fun 

Egyptomania:

https://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/people/pages/belzoni.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Egyptomania-Sphinxes-Obelisks-and-Scarabs-1688349

https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Obelisk/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk 

Ugly Law:

https://www.allarts.org/programs/origin-of-everything/why-it-was-illegal-to-be-ugly-c8ps4i/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law 

https://www.english.upenn.edu/sites/www.english.upenn.edu/files/Schweik-Susan_Ugly-Laws_Law-Language.pdf 

Radium Segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7875DVDdmnE 

https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/marie-curie-tells-how-she-discovered-radium-1921 

https://periodictable.com/Elements/088/ 

https://dustyoldthing.com/deadly-radium-craze/ 

https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace 

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/ 

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.cleanup&id=0200772 

US Department of Labor, Handbook of Labor Statistics, 1936

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112032654953&seq=923