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Dr Ria Lina

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397 total appearances

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You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I mean, it was like, yeah, I mean, talk about calling.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Okay, this is a family show, so not that.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

The stroker.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

The stroker.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

What can you stroke?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Okay, so far, okay.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I think the stroker, I keep thinking too far forward into the 1800s, and there were a lot of things that doctors did for women that could come under the stroking umbrella, but we're not there yet.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

So does the stroker do some kind of, something that calms the nervous system, like literally stroking, they don't realise that that's what they're doing by calming people down?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

It's Irish Reiki.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Does he also speak in his Irish accent?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Because I'll be honest, if I had a migraine and someone just talked to me in that beautiful lilt, I think it would go as well.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Yeah, maybe.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I mean, presumably.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

What was the Dutch word?

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Quacksalver.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I am Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union in 1962.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

I suspect they were hugely involved in Culpeper's herbal.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

Yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England

That's fascinating.