No, not the Italian genius, but the great Irish thoroughbred of the same name. Why was he so famous? But of course we cannot have an episode with this name without mentioning one of the greatest of astronomers. In the modern section, we talk about glaucoma.

H.G. Wells, and some very strange modern medical mysteries
12:27

Mary Shelley, and sleepy sickness
11:43

John Stewart Mill, and the mysterious pityriasus rosea
13:20