Greg Jenner

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.

Fake false legs, false eyes, false noses, ears stitched to hats, which I love.

Yes, it's brilliant.

Put the hat down and suddenly you've got ears attached, which is amazing.

We should bring those back.

Look, I'm an elf.

But we need to move on to a different discipline, which is the apothecary.

I mean, I don't know if I pronounced that correctly, but these are pharmacists?

So they diagnose, they sell, they've got their own little shops maybe.

Yeah, there's loads of them.

Yeah, and there's loads of them in London, isn't there?

We know it's like one for every 2,000 people.

And this is a big city.

Yeah.