Greg Jenner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Only you can do that joke.
All right, well, I've got another one now.
Let's move on from the barbers.
Let's go from the barbers to the barbers.
Because we're going to talk about the barber surgeons.
Ria, care to guess what a barber surgeon was?
And the clues in the name.
Yeah, it's a good question.
I've had expensive haircuts, but this could cost you an arm and a leg, literally, right?
And then, of course, they are doing some surgeries of a sort.
I mean, the bloodletting is surgery, right?
Oh, really?
I mean, hernias, fistulas, cataracts.
So external surgeries, I suppose.
Oh, we know what that is.
Oh, no.
And kidney stones and bladder stones must be agonising because there's no pain relief.
And obviously the 16th and 17th century in England is a time of war, of battles, of civil wars in the 17th century, of course.
So you've got loads and loads of people going to war and horrible injuries.
So this is also a time of prosthesis, of fatigues.