Billy Kay anent Scots Medicine

12th Mar 2008 - 12th Mar 2008

Billy Kay will be haudin furth on the history o doctors an medicine in Scotland, wi his ordnar jaunt throu the cultur, an affen bi wey o Lawland leid. In Pairt Ane Billy will speak aboot haly watters an clootie wells an the medical kinreds aince common in the Heilans. In Pairt Twa he looks at Scots surgeons, the growth o Embra as the foremaist centre o warld medicine in the 18ct century, an hou Scots doctors wis seen ootland. Pairt Three taks in the corp lifters, wi a swatch o the morthoose at Udny, in Aiberdeenshire, while, in Pairt Fower ‘There’s nae remeid for stark deid’, Billy speirs whither or no the’r a kenspeckle tradeetion o Scots medicine the day. Fowk can hear thir braidkests on BBC Radio Scotland at 11.33, braidkest again at 12.32, an for the follaein three weeks.