Dr Alana Skuse

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639 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

Dr Alana Skuse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England · 6 Feb 2026 podcast
Well, not exactly the best for hospitals, but the best for having a big hospital that will let you do weird stuff to the patients.
Yeah, it really depends which end of the treatment you're on there.
They bring that all back.
There's also loads of migrants coming into England and a lot of those are doctors.
So a lot of people coming from Huguenot, France, over here and bringing their skills with them.
How dare they arrive on boats with skills?
I know.
The absolute temerity of it.
Yeah.
Loads and loads of books.
More people who can read.
Lots of people.
If you can read, the chances are that you can read a bit of several different languages.
Yeah.
So a lot of even like fairly low down medical practitioners like the apothecaries can read a little bit of Latin as well.
But obviously, once you're publishing things in English, that makes a new market, which is people who haven't gone to university, they aren't physicians or anything, but they're just kind of interested and they're just buying it to have in the house a bit like you would buy like a first aid book.
Broadly, yeah.
So the main thing that they believe is Galenism.
It's the idea of the four humours.
And there's these four humours that go around in your body.
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