Don't Drink the Water, Stupid!

Send us Fan MailLearn how “The Masque of the Red Death” IS and IS NOT about cholera.Learn a bit about the horrible mob violence that occurred in Paris as a result of cholera.Listen to an absolutely horrible account of a typical 19th century operation done before painkillers were used! Learn how John Snow (not the Game of Thrones guy!) found the connection between contaminated water and cholera.A shoutout to Blackheath, England!Learn how to make the somewhat tedious (but necessary) step of washing your hands a lot easier with Poe and Shakespeare - or anyone else you choose.0:00 INTRODUCTION1:08 REVISITING “MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” AND CHOLERA2:50 REPORTS OF HEINRICH HEINE REGARDING PARIS, CROWDS, AND MOB VIOLENCE9:02 GHOST OF MR. POE EXITS 9:28 SURGERY WITHOUT PAINKILLERS!10:29 ACCOUNT OF AN OPERATION WITHOUT PAINKILERS12:10 ETHER AS A PAINKILLER12:21 JOHN SNOW (AND ETHER)13:35 SNOW TRIES TO FIND OUT CAUSE OF CHOLERA14:16 STUDYING WATER IN SOHO17:01  HEINRICH KLEIN SOLVES TUBERCULOSIS AND CHOLERA17:46 SHOUTOUT TO BLACKHEATH, ENGLAND18:27 “ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH” (HENRY V)18:55 MORE BLACKHEATH (FRANKENSTEIN TO BOY GEORGE)20:08 INTRO TO COVID PRECAUTIONS20:48 CATHOLIC HYMN21:55 HOW DO I LEARN TO RECITE?24:13 ALONE25:10 A DREAM WITHIN  A  DREAM 26:08 ANNABEL LEE28:02 THE RAVEN36:25 THE BELLS INTRO 37:12 THE BELLS41:24  SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY?44:15 LIFE IS FINE44:49 SOURCES, OUTROSOURCESSources for this episode include Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography and by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson,  Edgar Allan Poe: The Man by Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe by George E. Woodberry from the American Men of Letters series, The Year Without a Summer by William K. Klingman and Nicholas P. Klingman, Cholera: A Worldwide History by S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler, Cholera: The Victorian Plague by Thomas Amanda, Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm by Rita R. Colwell, and The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.