Two historians discover toads are chimney-exclusive vomiters, science advances

Two people having a completely unhinged discussion about medieval plague medicine that involves collecting toad vomit from inside chimneys, mixing it with frog corpses and fireplace ash, then slapping the resulting lozenges on your body like a poultice. The whole thing escalates to someone genuinely wondering at what point a historical figure discovered that toads exclusively vomit in chimneys, as if this was a legitimate scientific breakthrough. Vibe: history podcast hosts who've accidentally gone full fever dream and won't break character Key topics: toad vomit remedies, medieval plague medicine, fireplace ash therapeutics, chimney-based animal husbandry Transcript: Hot fire, it is, yeah, with a fire going underneath it. It doesn't say, it doesn't say about the fire. It just says collect vomit emitted before it dies on a dish of yellow wax. Be sure to include the detritus from the bottom of your fireplace, so bits of ash and so on. And then grind the vomit with the frog remains and form lozenges. And then you place the lozenges around the affected body parts and the idea is the tablets would draw the poison out of the body. Oh, so they're not lozenges to suck then? That's the pointy. I know, right? Who doesn't want a toad lozenge? At some point, he must have said to his mate, do you know what I've discovered? That toads will only vomit in a chimney.