Ovaries And Oddities

Albert Einstein’s Wife Was Smarter Than Him

Was Albert Einstein’s wife smarter than him? Did history erase yet another brilliant woman standing beside a famous man? In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the infuriating history of women whose work was ignored, minimized, stolen, or credited to men. From Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein’s first wife and intellectual partner, to Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in uncovering the structure of DNA, Lise Meitner’s overlooked contribution to nuclear fission, and Margaret Keane’s husband literally pretending to paint her famous artwork. This episode is about the audacity of men and the women history tried to erase. Until next week, Ivanna Brookes In this episode: Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51 Lise Meitner and nuclear fission Margaret Keane and the Big Eyes paintings The Matilda Effect Follow Ovaries and Oddities for more dark history, medical horror, and historical true crime. More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

60% Death Rate & Queen Victoria Used Chloroform For Childbirth

Imagine having to undergo surgery in the 1800s. No anesthesia and your survival rate less than 50%. Between your doctor not sanitizing anything ,including not washing his hands between surgeries, gangrene or other infections, and blood loss. It was an uphill battle. Plus pain medicine may or may not have been a bottle of brandy. Would you survive the operating table? See you next week, Ivanna Brookes More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

God Killed 33% of Europe To Raise Minimum Wage

Checkout Instagram & Facebook for daily content @ OvariesAndOddities 12 ships docked in Sicily but most of the sailors were dead. Over the next 5 years between 20-50 million people died of this mysterious plague. Waking up with a fever where your skin is burning, your body is shaking, your head feels like it’s splitting open, and then all of your lymph nodes are the size of eggs. Within days, that lump could turn black. Your fingers, toes, lips, or nose could darken. And in medieval Europe, there was no urgent care or antibiotics. So today we’re talking about the Black Death See you next week, Ivanna Brookes 🖤 More of Ovaries And Oddities: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities black death, bubonic plague, medieval history, medical horror, dark history, plague doctor, history podcast

Victorians Slept in Coffins & Ate Poison on Purpose

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re diving into the horrors of Victorian London, from arsenic wallpaper and poisonous beauty products to deadly sewage, contaminated drinking water, cholera outbreaks, overcrowded streets, workhouses, doss houses, the four-penny coffin, and the infamous two-penny hangover. The Victorian era gave us some of the most iconic aesthetics in history, but behind the pretty dresses and gothic architecture was a city filled with poverty, disease, pollution, human waste, toxic products, and social systems that punished people simply for being poor. See you next Thursday, Ivanna Brookes Victorian London, Victorian era, dark history, arsenic wallpaper, Scheele’s Green, Paris Green, Victorian beauty standards, Victorian poverty, workhouses, doss houses, two penny hangover, four penny coffin, cholera, Great Stink, River Thames, John Snow cholera, Broad Street pump, Joseph Bazalgette, Victorian sanitation, medical horror, historical horror, Ovaries and Oddities

He Experimented on Enslaved Women Without Anesthesia

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we uncover the dark medical history of J. Marion Sims, the doctor credited with shaping modern gynecology through experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women, including Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. These women, now often remembered as the Mothers of Gynecology, endured painful procedures without meaningful consent, while history preserved Sims’ name and buried theirs. See you next week, Ivanna Brookes