Greg Jenner

And what about the menstrual cycle?

I suppose, you know, if we're talking about these, that's regular bleeding that's meant to happen.

Oh, so haemorrhoids was like a natural... Yeah.

Oh, really?

You'd expect to get to your late 50s probably, wouldn't you?

Yeah, absolutely.

Plenty of elderly people, but unfortunately, child mortality was so high, the mean average gets dragged way down.

Alana, one famous disease that ravaged England late in this period was the plague, especially the plague of 1665.

Did physicians have any idea how to deal with it?

Any protocols?

They just run.

Sure, so bad smelling air they believed had naturally occurring disease, right?

Yeah, it's an iconic image.

It's the thing that everyone thinks of as the famous plague, Dr. Mask.

But yeah, England, it's a slight bit of a misnomer in England, isn't it?

It's very rare.

So social distancing, obviously the Italians have quarantine, which is where we get the word from, which is where you have 40 days of isolation.

And we get some pretty wild cures.

There's a guy called George Thompson.

And it's definitely a weird ending to Wind in the Willows, isn't it?