They call the Greeks "The Fathers of Medicine", but just how much did the "fathers" bother to figure out about their mothers, wives, sisters, or any woman who needed medical attention at that time?

These men - these "Fathers of Medicine" - assumed A LOT about how women's bodies and men's bodies were both similar and different. Spoiler alert: they made a lot of bad assumtions.

Join us on this journey into how wrong the learned men of any day can be, when they don't bother doing any research and guess at every turn.

In this episode, we discuss The tragic short life of Princess Charlotte, her 50 hour labor and subsequent death at the hands of…you guessed it: incompetent man midwives.

Her death in 1817 and its consequences were far reaching, probably still having an effect on your life at a wedding or around the holidays. It's truly amazing and tragic how the Princess met her end, as a woman of royalty, whose health was put in the hands of the absolutley wrong people. This episode also features the bonus of one of our cats who will not shut up during an hour where it would have been awful nice for her to.

For those of you who have heard these first episodes and noticed the audio quality is only OK, don't worry. Beginning soon, we will have all new mics and it's going to help everything sound TONS better. Thanks for hanging in with us while we get everything fine tuned!

Ahhh, the Chamberlens. What can I say about them that is even remotely polite? They probably helped some women deliver some babies throughout thier 200 year secrecy campaign over a giant, ornate chest that they hauled into the birthing chamber before everyone was kicked out and the expectant mother was blindfolded and draped in blankets.

What's in the box? Listen to this episode and find that out, and a whole lot more about how men like this are a huge problem even today, right here in the USA. If you're not at least a little pissed off at this family by the end of the episode, you might want to listen again.