Dr Alana Skuse
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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We always talk about the physicians and the surgeons and stuff because they're the ones that left a lot of writings.
But the vast majority of medical treatment is being administered by women, kind of noble women or women of the kind of middling class who give medicines to their servants and their families and their neighbours.
And they do extraordinary medicine.
They do all the kind of basically giving you a hot toddy type medicine.
But they also, some of them will do bits of surgery, like treat quite serious illnesses.
That's fascinating.
The noble women, they've got money and they're bored witless.
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.
A lot of the medicines appear across 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.
Yeah, and it's for fevers and things.
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