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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The noble women will do this?

Yeah.

Hannah Woolley is kind of like Martha Stewart or someone like that.

So she's not noble.

She pulls herself up basically by her bootstraps.

Her husband dies and she needs to make some money.

So she does one of the first commercial remedy books.

And it's really, really popular.

And she ends up publishing loads of these.

Yeah.

And a lot of, there's not really copyright in this period.

There's not copyright now, is there?

A lot of the medicines appear across like numerous of these textbooks.

Cock water is a cure-all medicine for fevers and things.

You make it by mashing up a cockerel and then you distill the water from the cockerel with raisins, the milk of a red cow and ambergris.

It is.

Yeah, and it's for fevers and things.

Puppy water can either be puppy wee or water in which you've boiled a puppy.

Oh, come on.

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