Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
And ambergris is whale phlegm, right?
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Yeah, hyper expensive, incredibly expensive.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Hard to find.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Hard to find because you need a whale to literally wash up on the beach.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Sometimes just the ambergris will wash up on the beach.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Oh, beautiful.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Okay.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Oh, so it's like cow poll?
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Sure.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
And it makes us feel better.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
They're shipped in.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
They're dried raisins so that you can transport them.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
You're shipping them in.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
The other cures, of course, would be oil of frog.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Oil of frog.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Oil of frog.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
And puppy water.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
I don't want to ask.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
All right.
You're Dead to Me
Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Well, as a BBC programme, I once again must stress, please do not go around boiling frogs or puppies.