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 it means that you don't need the physician right there, because if you've gone off to your fancy country house, but the physician's in London, well, you can send your servant with a long letter and a jar of your wee.

To the physician.

And I do wonder, like, how many servants just dropped the wee and then had to, like, pee in a vessel themselves.

It would.

You're pregnant?

I mean, urine is probably cleaner than a lot of the water sources.

You wash your hair in urine.

You put urine in your makeup.

Yeah, so about probably 80, 85% of what they recommend is going to be regimen, as they call it.

So diet and what you do, but mostly diet.

So you want to rebalance whatever humour is out of whack.

Let's say you've got a disease and it's being caused by melancholy.

so black bile, which is cold and dry, you're going to want to eat things that are hot and wet.

So the foods that are hot, it kind of makes sense.

It's the things you think are hot.

So red meat, salty foods, cheese, red wine.

I mean, it sounds great.

More often, they're telling people that they have to give up all that stuff, which they don't always like very much.

And the physicians are always complaining about people not taking their advice.

Yeah, they love a purge.

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