Dr Alana Skuse

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

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

And they're on this spectrum of hot, cold, wet, dry.

So you have black bile, which is cold and dry.

Blood, which is hot and wet.

You've got yellow bile, which is hot and dry.

And then phlegm, the most appealing humour, which is cold and wet.

And kind of confusingly, they all also go around in the blood.

So the blood that you see if you cut yourself, that's nutritive blood.

But the blood that is...

And mixed with all those humours, that's sanguine blood.

So it's slightly confusing, but it does kind of make sense.

If you don't know about microorganisms and stuff, this is quite an intuitive way of viewing your body.

And we still talk about like being in a good or bad humour or whatever.

I'm with you so far.

Yeah, black bile, they also call melancholy.

So if somebody has got big dark circles under their eyes or they're generally of a not black or brown skin, but of a dark complexion, then they would be thought to have a lot of black bile.

So that's common.

Cold and dry.

Yes.

Yeah, very much.

Like the phlegm people.

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