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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Alanna Skuse

History Hack by Alex Churchill, Matt Bone

Dec 31, 202518:01Society & Culture

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot. Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, fait...

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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Alanna Skuse is an episode from History Hack by Alex Churchill, Matt Bone. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot. Alanna...

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Published Dec 31, 2025, 18:01 long, audio available.

The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Alanna Skuse

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