Dr Alana Skuse
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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So the three great remedies, as they call them, of the College of Physicians are bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Yeah, very fast and loose with the word great there.
But they first will purge you probably with something to make you vomit or give you diarrhoea, which can be like any kind of...
herbal stuff somebody has a purge that they said purges both ends at once oh yeah it's uh it's lovely they can also give you really strong stuff like mercury one of their best purges is mercury and they use it for people who've got syphilis yeah so you give the person mercury or you like smear it on them or you give it to them in a medicine
And then you wrap them up in blankets and you put them in front of a fire in a room and you shut all the doors.
And the idea is to sweat it out.
And people sweat so much.
And the mercury has such an effect on them that if you do this a lot of times, like their teeth will fall out.
They'll go a weird color from all the mercury inside them.
It's a whole thing.
Yeah.
They don't use leeches all the time.
Sometimes they just cut you and let you bleed into a bowl.
It just depends.
Yeah.
It's what everyone knows about medicine in the past, right, is they have this image of bloodletting.
And it's kind of true.
And we have this idea that physicians love letting blood out of people and they want to do it all the time.
Actually, it's kind of driven by the patients.
Patients want to get their blood let because they have the idea that if you let out some of the blood, all the bad stuff's going to go with it.
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