Greg Jenner
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Okay.
And then presumably there's also things like purging.
Those aren't remedies.
Those are symptoms.
And this is a cure.
But we don't smear ourselves in heavy metal.
Just one tiny detail out.
Listeners, please do not take any of this as current medical advice.
Here's some mercury.
And it's all gone to pot.
We'll get to that later.
You're kind of spot on, actually, with some of this stuff.
You're kind of right that women's sort of roles, I think, were more important than often given credit.
We'll come to that a little later.
The other thing I suppose we need to talk about, as well as purging, the bloodletting with leeches.
Blackadder was correct?
Yes.
Yes, because that's the Galenic theories that you make new blood through the liver.
And so you'll just produce new blood and then you'll be fine.
Wow.