Dr Ria Lina

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397 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

Don't try this at home.

Also, can we make a nod to the fact that this feels very much like the male takeover of medicine?

Because you know that maybe even 100 years prior to that, the women were saying, what I'm going to do is I'm going to wrap you in basil.

And then I'm going to wrap you in blankets.

I'm going to shut the door.

And we're going to sweat you out with basil.

And that would have had a better effect.

They were using plants and nature.

Here's a bit of willow bark.

Oh, my God, my pain's gone.

Aspirin.

You know, and then the men came in and went, no, it needs to be red meat for the black bile.

Wait, so were we doing that on women in their first trimester because we didn't know they were pregnant?

Wow.

Listen, just the fact they lived that long in the 1500s is impressive.

There were people in their 80s and 90s.

That's true.

I mean, actually, there were quite a few people that lived to 70s and 80s in the 1800s.

That's interesting.

So all of those things suggest that they thought it was communicated through touch rather than what it was once someone was infected, which was through the air.

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