Dr Ria Lina

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397 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

Dr Ria Lina’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You're Dead to Me · Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

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

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

The stroker.

What can you stroke?

Okay, so far, okay.

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.

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?

Yeah.

It's Irish Reiki.

Does he also speak in his Irish accent?

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.

Yeah, maybe.

I mean, presumably.

What was the Dutch word?

Quacksalver.

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

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

Yeah.

That's fascinating.

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