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Greg Jenner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6835 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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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

Two, the womb could move around inside a woman's body and had to be coaxed back into place with delicious smells.

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

Three, babies with longer umbilical cords had longer penises.

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

Or four, the womb continued to live after a woman had died.

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

Which of those not true?

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

The last one was that the womb continued to live after.

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

I mean, you are correct to go for three as one that might seem outlandish.

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

They're all true.

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

I lied to you.

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

Still, now.

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

That's weird.

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

Okay, well, sorry for lying to you there, Ria, obviously.

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

You know, you trusted me and I betrayed you.

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

But, you know, a comedy show.

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

So what are you going to do?

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

You're a man.

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

Alana, midwives, were they allowed to practice in peace?

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

Or as Ria had sort of suggested earlier, did men sort of go, this is a job for a man.

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

This is my field of medicine.

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

Do we get a sense here of male medicine muscling in on midwifery?