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The Quacks of London
This episode is very much a Strong Five.
Alasdair takes us back to Victorian London where phoney doctors (faux-sicians) sold cures for all known ills… and plenty of unknown ones too.
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Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Featured image from engraving of G. Katterfelto with a black cat. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.