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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And then eventually some of the barbers, they're pretty much just working as surgeons and they decide, okay, we should formalize this.
And they get the company of barber surgeons in 1534.
So there's this picture of Henry VIII handing over a charter to this company while the physicians stand on his other side looking like they've swallowed a bee.
And then they decide, OK, now we've kind of divvied it up.
The surgeons are going to do the surgery and the barbers are going to cut the hair and never the twain shall meet.
Yeah, basically.
So they come from the pepperers and the spicers who are medieval.
Okay.
Did you say those two words again?
Pepperers and spicers.
I'd love to be a pepperer.
So they import pepper and spices.
Pepperers and spicers.
Yeah.
And they basically are pharmacists.
What they're supposed to do is fill the prescriptions that the physicians write.
What they actually do is they do that, but they also sell their own medicines and they do a bit of their own medical practice.
Apothecary.
Yeah, it's still in print.
It's had more editions than Grey's Anatomy.
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