Dr Ria Lina

But in this time, you wanted big hands to be able to grip the arteries on both sides of the thigh with one hand so that you could stem the bleeding while you sawed off the leg.

Was hair particularly coarse back then?

Oh, but beer was okay.

Wow, the standards, the double standards.

Okay, dumb question.

But was he called Culpepper coincidentally and he becomes an apothecary or does he come from a long line of pepperers?

Brilliant.

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

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

The stroker.

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.