The Sweating Plague Was Deadlier Than It Sounds

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  • Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024

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  • @rebekahjcowan
    @rebekahjcowan 4 года назад +4474

    Learning about deadly diseases in Quarantine

  • @brendancskinner
    @brendancskinner 4 года назад +3181

    I think it's possible that it was fungal contamination involving wine. It would explain the absence of children and the poor getting ill and perhaps the timing especially if it coincided with warmer climate every 10 to 15 years as mentioned in the video. Also the symptoms involving the sense of foreboding could be brought on by a fungus mixed with alcohol. Fungi can also do rapid kidney damage which plays into all of the symptoms.

    • @michaelcorleone993
      @michaelcorleone993 4 года назад +95

      Brendan Skinner yes this is exactly what happened. And I have proof.

    • @brendancskinner
      @brendancskinner 4 года назад +113

      @@michaelcorleone993 care to share?

    • @endergamer7483
      @endergamer7483 4 года назад +200

      Brendan Skinner Maybe it’s a form of botulism? Some of the symptoms I’ve read seem very similar (nausea and headaches/other assorted pains). Along with the sudden way it killed people and the class of people it killed, due the food they ate (easily becoming rancid food like meats.).

    • @jhoang861
      @jhoang861 4 года назад +189

      I find this comment section interesting. I think maybe there is truth to this. Since it killed mostly the upper class, what else could it be?

    • @ph4ntomsoldier
      @ph4ntomsoldier 4 года назад +23

      I think you're right.

  • @no-just-no
    @no-just-no 4 года назад +5988

    *looks at symptoms*
    *SWEATS NERVOUSLY*

  • @deangirl2286
    @deangirl2286 3 года назад +585

    Sometimes it still blows my mind how anyone managed to get through the medieval times

    • @Fredakruger0666
      @Fredakruger0666 3 года назад +75

      Aren’t they all dead

    • @aenesthesia
      @aenesthesia 3 года назад +8

      @@Fredakruger0666 🤣🤣🤣

    • @denisemcdougal6445
      @denisemcdougal6445 3 года назад

      True

    • @joycegreer9391
      @joycegreer9391 2 года назад +1

      All of human history has disease, infection, accidents, wars, crimes. Doubt that medieval times was the worst of all.

    • @chrisper94
      @chrisper94 2 года назад +1

      @@Fredakruger0666 , 😯😯😯😯🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😏😏😏😏

  • @Lottie-Lou
    @Lottie-Lou 4 года назад +526

    Doctors also recommended that they didn’t drink at all, which given the body would be severely dehydrated would have definitely contributed to the likelihood of death!

    • @katherinedorton4562
      @katherinedorton4562 4 года назад +41

      yeah, that probably didn't help it either. you have to take in what you put out.

    • @lohaye3260
      @lohaye3260 3 года назад +7

      How science changes over time 😅

    • @CanYallPleaseSubcribe
      @CanYallPleaseSubcribe 3 года назад +9

      They probably thought the fluids could be a reason the sweating isnt stopping

    • @angelface925
      @angelface925 3 года назад +5

      Doctors: Can't sweat if you avoid the wet!
      Disease: I'm dyyyyyyyying!
      Patient: I'm dyyyyyyyying!
      Doctors: I mean...

    • @akalyx
      @akalyx 2 года назад +1

      @@angelface925 ...that's just logic!

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 4 года назад +2143

    *[Sweats nervously]*
    WAIT NO

    • @JohnJohn-yl4ko
      @JohnJohn-yl4ko 4 года назад +34

      Me: [Sweating heavily]

    • @mi.04.ya.01
      @mi.04.ya.01 4 года назад +32

      *inset coffin dance here*

    • @heccinchonkercat
      @heccinchonkercat 4 года назад +8

      I’m trying to animate and it’s not working your name tho. I feel your pain.

    • @hypnoswatch276
      @hypnoswatch276 4 года назад +7

      People in 1485: * sees someone sweating *
      *The council will now decide your fate.*

    • @skinni_the_P00hBear
      @skinni_the_P00hBear 3 года назад

      😂

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 года назад +3487

    Weird History: Teaching us all not to sweat the small stuff.

    • @JS-ob2xt
      @JS-ob2xt 4 года назад +23

      What if I have a sweaty dick

    • @allygaffney962
      @allygaffney962 4 года назад +55

      @@JS-ob2xt quarantine it.

    • @greg7964
      @greg7964 4 года назад +23

      @@JS-ob2xt put a mask over it

    • @pandamandimax
      @pandamandimax 4 года назад +22

      @JS chop it off bro

    • @floo1465
      @floo1465 4 года назад +9

      Greg Miller *condom

  • @Kerriangel
    @Kerriangel 4 года назад +1673

    One correction: Charles Brandon was married to Henry’s sister Mary; not his daughter Mary.
    The Tudor family had four names for women and used them far too much

    • @ButtonsCasey
      @ButtonsCasey 4 года назад +68

      Technically she was a daughter of Henry. :P But yeah I thought the same thing.

    • @Schmoopiebear
      @Schmoopiebear 4 года назад +155

      Mary, Elizabeth, Katherine or Anne. That was it. You get to pick one of those for your child. That’s it.

    • @lawrWolf1357
      @lawrWolf1357 4 года назад +20

      Thank you🙌🏻 was about to comment something very similar😄

    • @FloraDLady
      @FloraDLady 4 года назад +43

      Margaret (Beaufort and Tudor) Mary (Dowager Queen and Princess) Elizabeth (Consort and Queen) Katherine (Consorts) and Anne. The creativity.

    • @leonewashere
      @leonewashere 4 года назад +17

      Meeko Bear and then you just get Jane lol

  • @amycorbett4664
    @amycorbett4664 4 года назад +1586

    I think you should have said “he changed his residence about as often as he changed his wives” 🥴

    • @sgusjsk
      @sgusjsk 4 года назад +19

      Oh my gosh. 😂😂😂

    • @rx500android
      @rx500android 4 года назад +13

      Omg yes

    • @goosequillian
      @goosequillian 4 года назад +12

      Didn't he have 6 wives in total?

    • @Sddvhjkkll
      @Sddvhjkkll 4 года назад +11

      Divorced
      Dun dun

    • @nas897
      @nas897 4 года назад +10

      @@ashlynartz1842 died dun dun dun

  • @hotsprinkles
    @hotsprinkles 4 года назад +74

    gluttony + no exercise + extraordinary levels of alcohol = yeah I could understand why the upper class didn't like to sweat but c'mon it's not gonna ki- oh wait

  • @blackhole2770
    @blackhole2770 4 года назад +710

    Other RUclips channels: let's produce and post up lifting content to help people cope
    Weird history:

    • @ngufanikojo6430
      @ngufanikojo6430 4 года назад +37

      This is helping me cope! It gives me hope to know that 'this too shall pass'. And its entertaining.

    • @kerriannmatitsaroundalday2994
      @kerriannmatitsaroundalday2994 4 года назад +2

      @@ngufanikojo6430 Me too buddy

    • @carolinemcgovern4488
      @carolinemcgovern4488 4 года назад +10

      Ironically, knowing that this isn't new is comforting.

    • @sarcasm8007
      @sarcasm8007 4 года назад +7

      I know this is 6 month's later but it's still comforting because it shows how far we've come in technology and hopefully they'll be able to figure this out rather than later.

    • @lasarousi
      @lasarousi 3 года назад +3

      This is uplifting to me, even in a pandemic we live far better than 99% of humanity already dead.

  • @SyberiusRex
    @SyberiusRex 4 года назад +3144

    We swim in our own sweats every summer - Filipinos

  • @stephensedlon8414
    @stephensedlon8414 4 года назад +249

    You ever think that one day there'll be videos like this about the current pandemic and the narrator will say:
    "The people who lived at the time believed 5g radio frequencies were actually causing their symptoms."

    • @XiELEd4377
      @XiELEd4377 2 года назад +2

      Not most tho

    • @af3893
      @af3893 Год назад

      Lol or that you could be cured by injecting bleach 🤣

    • @inthelandofmorethansmall7582
      @inthelandofmorethansmall7582 Год назад

      They had no idea what was about to happen. The number of brain tumors SKYROCKETED by 2030. At the time they had no idea 5G wad the cause.

  • @darthsidious6753
    @darthsidious6753 4 года назад +121

    The upper classes hadn't got that hypothetical earlier disease, for whatever reason - so when the sweat came along, they had no immunity to it and were infected in much greater numbers.

  • @primadonnaqueen3685
    @primadonnaqueen3685 4 года назад +387

    All these old pandemics make me thankful for the invention of showers

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 4 года назад +589

    The current situation turning us all into disease detectives.

    • @OMorningstar666
      @OMorningstar666 4 года назад +10

      naa ive been watching plague and disease videos since i found out these videos exist lmao

    • @karahershey
      @karahershey 4 года назад +6

      @@OMorningstar666 me to I just read a very good book on yellow fever

    • @canaisyoung3601
      @canaisyoung3601 3 года назад

      @@karahershey The actual disease or the racist slang term for being attracted to Asians?

  • @ahorsewithnoname9354
    @ahorsewithnoname9354 4 года назад +427

    I love weird history! U guys the MVP, ya’ll really been helping me get through quarantine 🔥

    • @jasmineaurora3144
      @jasmineaurora3144 4 года назад +9

      Agreed! I've been loving folding laundry while watching Weird History. I learn something as I'm doing daily chores haha.

    • @x0q4
      @x0q4 4 года назад +6

      Winnie the Pooh I dropped out of school because I can learn everything from Weird History

    • @salud7432
      @salud7432 4 года назад

      No

    • @ahorsewithnoname9354
      @ahorsewithnoname9354 4 года назад

      Salud 74 okay

    • @OmniaViridis
      @OmniaViridis 4 года назад

      Me tooooooo!

  • @morgan1736
    @morgan1736 4 года назад +89

    Me: has 5 assignments due tomorrow, 3 ap tests to study for, one of them tomorrow
    Also me: hmmm sweating plague sounds interesting :)

    • @spoonky85
      @spoonky85 3 года назад +10

      Reading this stressed me out and im not even in school.

    • @patixabel
      @patixabel 3 года назад +6

      How did you do? Did you pass even though you took this learning detour? Rooting for you 😁🤞🤞🤞

    • @morgan1736
      @morgan1736 3 года назад +3

      @@patixabel I forgot about all of it! I did good on everything thank you! :)

    • @tasneemedwards2574
      @tasneemedwards2574 3 года назад +3

      @@morgan1736 congrats ! You deserve a break sometimes

    • @SheenyPebble
      @SheenyPebble 5 месяцев назад +1

      😂😅😂

  • @stuartblittleynolan9486
    @stuartblittleynolan9486 3 года назад +37

    current situation: watching plague videos during quarantine for no reason other than to scare myself

  • @patf1288
    @patf1288 4 года назад +203

    I dig the new intro y'all are stepping up the game.

  • @shitstorm222
    @shitstorm222 4 года назад +734

    "No documented cases in children"..........kills famous 13 year old noble.

    • @MissKittieMo
      @MissKittieMo 4 года назад +168

      Bobs22 Puberty = Adulthood in that time. So yea, there were no reported cases in CHILDREN lol

    • @execbum1
      @execbum1 4 года назад +163

      It said he was "13 or 14 ". At 14 he would have been old enough to get married and have his own household, so wouldn't have been considered a child. Even at 13 he would have been old enough to have been sent away to live in another noble's household, which would be like us sending an older teenager off to work, so wouldn't have been counted as a child even then.

    • @goodieoryx5074
      @goodieoryx5074 4 года назад +49

      Children is mainly kids under 10 biologically

    • @Kirsten_is_cursed10
      @Kirsten_is_cursed10 4 года назад +61

      14 was basically middle aged back then.

    • @betsysipe5512
      @betsysipe5512 4 года назад +1

      Yeah... that's what I was thinking

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie 4 года назад +177

    The Sweat: dying of embarrassment for over 500 years!

  • @mikiemina4731
    @mikiemina4731 4 года назад +48

    "Today, we're going to take a look at the plague that made you sweat to death"
    Ah, you mean summer in the tropical countries...

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass8573 4 года назад +25

    I'd be interested to learn what exactly caused the deaths of the Sweating Sickness. Was it dehydration? Extreme temperature? Or something else. Pretty scary that they thought it was evil from the ground. Yikes.

    • @lwscijunkie
      @lwscijunkie 4 месяца назад +1

      These days the best guess is that it was Hanta virus. But no one really knows.

  • @kateoconnor30030
    @kateoconnor30030 4 года назад +143

    Damn these Europeans couldn’t catch a break

  • @Amar90
    @Amar90 4 года назад +390

    Bad hygiene/eating habits is nearly always the cause of every pandemics.

    • @floravvitch
      @floravvitch 4 года назад +14

      I thought it was bacteria

    • @randomguy9378
      @randomguy9378 4 года назад +12

      I’M THE MAN 🤦‍♂️

    • @randomguy9378
      @randomguy9378 4 года назад +14

      I'M THE MAN It’s not but ok

    • @JesseDanLee
      @JesseDanLee 4 года назад +15

      They didn't understand how bacteria and viruses entered the body. Imagine if you could tell historical outbreak victims that they could slow the plague if they wore masks and washed their hands. I think they would have done it ☹

    • @mcgovemj
      @mcgovemj 4 года назад +2

      Kindly fuck off.

  • @Noadvantage246
    @Noadvantage246 4 года назад +452

    Who else tried to wipe those weird smudges on the right of the video.

    • @Jacob-uo6zi
      @Jacob-uo6zi 4 года назад +30

      Lol scrolled down to find this comment thank God I'm not the only one I tried for almost a minute

    • @cynthiafisher3392
      @cynthiafisher3392 4 года назад +10

      That would be ME!!! LOL!!

    • @freemind5321
      @freemind5321 4 года назад +7

      ✋ Right here 😅😂

    • @eGirlPlays
      @eGirlPlays 4 года назад +3

      Yep.

    • @TomDLuv777
      @TomDLuv777 4 года назад +4

      Same

  • @CATNAPREAL1188
    @CATNAPREAL1188 2 года назад +8

    I can't say Thank You enough for doing this channel. Personally I think it's one of if Not the best channel on the internet. I sure wish the history topics in highschool had been this interesting. I thourghly enjoy watching and learning from each and every one that you post. Thank You ! Great Job !

    • @KimberlyPatton-x1n
      @KimberlyPatton-x1n 28 дней назад

      I agree! I have been subbed and a fan for several years now,the narration is the best- as are his occasional humorous and sarcastic comments!

  • @Wraith_of_Storm
    @Wraith_of_Storm 4 года назад +27

    Patient: Will I be okay, Doctor?
    *Doctor: Sure! Don't sweat it!"*

  • @lorrie9462
    @lorrie9462 4 года назад +30

    We’ve usually been able figure out what killed most people from those days in terms of diseases but this one we still haven’t figured out.

  • @rodneyp9590
    @rodneyp9590 4 года назад +211

    It almost sounds like some sort of poison in liquor, kids would have gotten it in wine. Just a quick guess is mercury poison from bad batches of booze.

    • @henrg
      @henrg 4 года назад +7

      What about the elderly not catching it though?

    • @rodneyp9590
      @rodneyp9590 4 года назад +27

      I did a few minutes of research on my comment, it doesn't seem like mercury poison really. It doesn't look like they had an easy way to make wood alchohol so that's out. The reason I think liquor is poor kids drink ale and rich kids drink wine. I wonder if brandy or gin couldn't still have the fungus. I wonder about the old people, from what I can tell it was being made and marketed as medicine for almost 2 centuries at that point. It seems they would be one of the biggest consumers. The video and nothing I read said no elderly had it however. It does appear this is the time period people in england started drinking for fun and not just health. Maybe it could have been a shunning of the party scene that kept the elderly safe, or marketing of different liquor for different purposes. I found some places reported a 5% mortality rate, and some reported closer to 90%. The average was about 30%. I also ran into an interesting quote from John Cauis "they which had this sweat sore with perils of death were either men of wealth, ease or welfare, or the poorer sort, such as were idle persons, good ale drinkers and tavern haunters" I'm a fan of history, but far from a historian so I don't know how accurate I actually am. Also all I know about alchohol is I like it.

    • @TheDreadedWhiteDevil
      @TheDreadedWhiteDevil 4 года назад +9

      Mercury you is a liquid metal, people got it through using creams and makeups long ago with the Mercury in it, it is really hard to make Murcia your mix with anything let alone a less viscous liquid such a wine

    • @arthurturp9008
      @arthurturp9008 4 года назад +7

      Children would've drank booze back then though

    • @johnnyslokes2712
      @johnnyslokes2712 4 года назад +3

      Thats what I was thinking, has to be some kind of poison. Someone hated wealthy ppl.

  • @tyeeggleston6159
    @tyeeggleston6159 4 года назад +177

    HMMM...being stuck inside my house and not being able to get withing 6ft of people really doesn't seem that bad now....

    • @xxheartbrokexx100
      @xxheartbrokexx100 4 года назад +2

      Tye Eggleston you sound idiotic cov is not even a cold

    • @Birb2022
      @Birb2022 4 года назад +8

      @@xxheartbrokexx100 but there are reports of coronavirus killing people?

    • @xxheartbrokexx100
      @xxheartbrokexx100 4 года назад +4

      A random person but there are reports of cold a flu killing many thousands yearly?

    • @erinthesystem9608
      @erinthesystem9608 4 года назад +3

      There is a comfort to be taken in our modern understanding of the mechanisms of disease, how these are transmitted and how they attack the body. This understanding may be far from complete, but, before the discovery of microbes, ideas as to just how people became sick- and the best means of warding off sickness- seem terribly scattershot, veering from science to religion to the supernatural. It is good to finally have some focus for all these human efforts, as we still have a lot to learn.

    • @baileyspeltbeefy1768
      @baileyspeltbeefy1768 4 года назад +4

      Cedric Crow the flu hasn’t killed millions of people in less than a year
      People always make that comparison and it’s so fucking stupid

  • @jacquelinegoodman5243
    @jacquelinegoodman5243 4 года назад +14

    I’ve heard it called the Tudor plague as well, came with Henry XII and left England after the last Tudor.

  • @manmana5922
    @manmana5922 4 года назад +44

    Does anyone got jebaited to wipe their screens at first, only to realize it was just a background?

  • @allygaffney962
    @allygaffney962 4 года назад +28

    I absolutely love history. But the way it's delivered by you and those involved is just fantastic. Well done!

  • @mr.personhumanson6871
    @mr.personhumanson6871 4 года назад +170

    You know there's a sweating sickness epidemic when the air start to smell like armpits

    • @thomasblackwell9507
      @thomasblackwell9507 4 года назад +4

      Mr. Person Humanson -- or like old tennis shoes.

    • @allygaffney962
      @allygaffney962 4 года назад +10

      I always assumed it would smell like rancid meat and armpits. The air would be tinged yellow and foggy

    • @HANA-mw1rf
      @HANA-mw1rf 4 года назад +3

      Sour cream & onion ruffles you say? Mmm de-li-cious!

    • @nurimaninsyirahbintirosli5220
      @nurimaninsyirahbintirosli5220 4 года назад +2

      @@HANA-mw1rf u have fetish???

    • @laurenwilson9383
      @laurenwilson9383 4 года назад +5

      You mean every comic-con I've ever been to? Lol, seriously I wear heavy handmade costumes and I don't reek anywhere near the amount as some of the people I pass by

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 4 года назад +67

    This sweating sickness seems to be very prevalent during the years of the Tudor dynasty.

    • @sissybrooks8588
      @sissybrooks8588 4 года назад +4

      The Reformation, too.

    • @deydorian2576
      @deydorian2576 4 года назад +12

      The Tudor line was rumored to be cursed. It was thought Henry the 7th was doomed because he may have played a part in the murder of the princes in the tower. First the death of his heir, Arthur. Then his wife died in childbirth. Then Henry the 7th dies. Henry the 8th dealt with the sweat, the protestant reformation, the pilgrimage of grace, and excommunication. His illegitimate son died of consumption. His son died of consumption. His daughter Mary died after a phantom pregnancy. Then we got queen Elizabeth the 1st who lived to a fairly old age and died childless. That whole dynasty was cursed.

  • @CrystalMouse1
    @CrystalMouse1 3 года назад +26

    I read that one good way to stay alive once symptoms develop was to be wealthy enough to have a maid. That maid would need to swiftly get you to bed and under blankets. If you caught a chill, you died 💀 so the idea is that the maid forced you to remain under the blankets even during the horrible sweating. She'd apply cloth and keep you hydrated with beer (water was polluted back then) til the fever broke. Unfortunately the maids usually panicked and abandoned their mistresses. Also paranoia was a first symptom which turned people a bit hysterical as they were basically waiting to die. So scary 😱

    • @msatxgault560
      @msatxgault560 3 года назад +3

      Not all water was polluted

    • @struck1999
      @struck1999 Год назад +1

      Pee water is still healthy

    • @sekichdawn3913
      @sekichdawn3913 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@msatxgault560Yes, MOST water back then was riddled with diesese. Now you could make the argument about free flowing springs that weren't, too bad they didn't know the difference.

  • @JoeGallo43
    @JoeGallo43 4 года назад +10

    Sir William Compton died of the mysterious sweating sickness. When I first heard of the disease I thought "uhhh you mean a FEVER??!!", because I know they weren't advanced at all in medicine, but it actually wasn't a fever (which you can die from if not treated). You gotta love history.

  • @solomoncumquats776
    @solomoncumquats776 4 года назад +287

    Your voice is perfect for narrating these dark, bleak times in history.

    • @ek3942
      @ek3942 3 года назад +6

      Almost like Forensic Files

  • @chillcosby2490
    @chillcosby2490 4 года назад +17

    Shout out to Glenn Danzig at 5:30. Didnt expect to see that here.

  • @jimmyc9601
    @jimmyc9601 4 года назад +278

    Origin: The boy's lockeroom.

    • @saouer
      @saouer 4 года назад +6

      why do so many people have that username am i out of the loop. have i become a boomer

    • @n4tzy
      @n4tzy 4 года назад +8

      @@saouer I haven't even seen one lmao

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад

      saouer it’s a dead meme

    • @jimmyc9601
      @jimmyc9601 4 года назад

      @@wolfzmusic9706 no

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 4 года назад

      jungus chungus i haven’t seen that meme around for a while. then again, i’m not really a memey person

  • @SweetLilWren
    @SweetLilWren 4 года назад +14

    Great video!
    Had never heard of this previously!
    What a morbidly fun romp thru epidemic history

  • @momkatmax
    @momkatmax 3 года назад +21

    It sounds so much like cerebral malaria, fever, sweating, headaches malaise. It also has stomach pains and intestinal symptoms. Perhaps the nobility were close to the mosquito infested areas. The hole in the argument would be children who be infected too.

    • @cynthiamckenzie1034
      @cynthiamckenzie1034 2 года назад +1

      Yes. I think you are right.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 4 месяца назад

      A fulminant STI? That would explain why children didn’t get it.

    • @playinglifeoneasy9226
      @playinglifeoneasy9226 4 месяца назад

      Wine contaminated by a fungus that attacks the heart

    • @lwscijunkie
      @lwscijunkie 4 месяца назад +1

      This vid is dumb. Kids died of sweating sickness too.

  • @huntera978
    @huntera978 4 года назад +61

    “Sweating sickness disappeared after the 16th century”
    Probably 2020: Interesting...

    • @brandonbethings
      @brandonbethings 3 года назад +2

      you be thinking what I'm thinking haha

    • @karahershey
      @karahershey 2 месяца назад

      We I will never know because we have no clue what the virus was

  • @nps1016
    @nps1016 4 года назад +149

    300 people died in Danzig alone...”Mother”...😂

    • @unrepentant7805
      @unrepentant7805 4 года назад +7

      i genuinely choked when the picture of glenn showed up

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 4 года назад +6

      I laughed so hard at that lol

    • @viv_uriarte
      @viv_uriarte 4 года назад +8

      LOL! Was looking for this comment🤣👍🏻

    • @Elrik99
      @Elrik99 4 года назад +5

      @@viv_uriarte same here! :P

    • @breathlesshaste
      @breathlesshaste 4 года назад +5

      I snorted so loud, I woke the dog. Now he's mad at me.

  • @sadepartridge3256
    @sadepartridge3256 4 года назад +187

    Don’t “sweat” it guys! Weird History is here to save the day!

  • @beebeelicious
    @beebeelicious 4 года назад +64

    The mention about "Feeling of impending doom" is interesting. Also a documented symptom of Sepsis.

    • @corrigandavidson2356
      @corrigandavidson2356 4 года назад +8

      That's a symptom of almost any disease (for me anyway) 😂

    • @AS-qg1xu
      @AS-qg1xu 2 года назад +6

      I have a feeling of impending doom constantly, all my life every living moment. It sucks

    • @Em-tj6rh
      @Em-tj6rh 8 месяцев назад +2

      And anxiety

  • @englishcountrylife3805
    @englishcountrylife3805 4 года назад +8

    Cot deaths used to be called ‘smother in their sleep’. I used to hear my grandma and her friends talking about it. When she put me to bed as a small child, she insisted I slept on my side with the blankets tucked under my arm so I wouldn’t ‘smother’. I always did with my children and they always do with theirs.

  • @ukmedicfrcs
    @ukmedicfrcs 4 года назад +6

    This channel is amazing. You should have millions more subscribers. It is literally one of my favourites. As a self described history buff, this is really fun to watch. Thank you! May I make a suggestion? Do a video on The great horse manure crisis of 1894. Sounds funny but it was actually terrible for humans and animals alike. Along with the children who..well I will leave the rest a mystery for those who don't know.

  • @kikoizme
    @kikoizme 4 года назад +143

    Charles Brandon, the elder, was married to Henry VIII's sister Mary, not his daughter

    • @comacho92
      @comacho92 4 года назад

      Unsubscribed

    • @kureijisatsujinsha
      @kureijisatsujinsha 4 года назад +7

      fjf sjdnx The female version of nephew is niece.

    • @lexfacitregem
      @lexfacitregem 4 года назад +8

      Oh thank God! Here I was beginning to think that after all this time, I had just hallucinated Queen Mary's marriage to Phillip II. All is now right with the world again!

    • @Mohicanlily
      @Mohicanlily 4 года назад +3

      And the portrait shown is actually Catherine of Aragon, Mary's mother.

  • @blibdoolpoolp
    @blibdoolpoolp 4 года назад +78

    Last time I was so early, this format wasn't a meme yet

    • @Tia-db9zn
      @Tia-db9zn 4 года назад +25

      Skylar Kay last time i was this early, the comment section was where it was supposed to be

    • @powpow1006
      @powpow1006 4 года назад +3

      @@Tia-db9zn lmao

    • @crazybrickstudios7482
      @crazybrickstudios7482 4 года назад +2

      @Randomness 101
      The comment section hasn’t moved for me. Idk why, but I don’t use the youtube app, I use the internet browser one, so that might play a part

    • @Tia-db9zn
      @Tia-db9zn 4 года назад +1

      crazybrickstudios lucky

  • @ahorsewithnoname9354
    @ahorsewithnoname9354 4 года назад +53

    Every Henrey in the upper class looks identical 💀

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 года назад +7

      Inbreeding for fun and profit!

    • @stevenholmes5099
      @stevenholmes5099 4 года назад +10

      Shallow gene pool

    • @Mr.Obongo
      @Mr.Obongo 4 года назад +5

      It was all the same dude, that’s why same face same name. This was Florida Man back in the day.

  • @luispagan9170
    @luispagan9170 4 года назад +35

    Plague inc.: "You have released the Sweating Sickness in Europe" *pops DNA bubble*

  • @sirwi11iam
    @sirwi11iam 4 года назад +24

    We say “Lancastrian’s” instead of “Lancaster’s” in the UK. :)

  • @CoushattaL
    @CoushattaL 4 года назад +40

    The fact that it only really affected kind of richer middle-aged people and not elderly or kids makes me think that it was something only rich people could use or get their hands on. And kids weren't allow to have it and older people just didn't care about whatever it was. And so it was poisoning them they just didn't realize it.
    Like what product were they using or what food were they eating or drinking during that time that they stopped after the disease seemed to simply disappear? I feel like they may have been doing it to themselves and they just didn't realize it.

    • @THETalesFromTheAbyss
      @THETalesFromTheAbyss 4 года назад +7

      That's the first thing I thought like maybe some rare food they had at their meals or something

    • @fallingformelodies4981
      @fallingformelodies4981 4 года назад +3

      Drug maybe?

    • @THETalesFromTheAbyss
      @THETalesFromTheAbyss 4 года назад +3

      @@fallingformelodies4981 They wernt really known for having drugs back then. Most of their cures for ailments were rub a frog and then piss on it type of cures.

    • @MissCaraMint
      @MissCaraMint 4 года назад +2

      And then there’s the seasonal aspect.

    • @fallingformelodies4981
      @fallingformelodies4981 4 года назад +3

      @@THETalesFromTheAbyss lol with more reason for there to be a horrible disease, they were probably tripping on a bad batch of shrooms that were on season

  • @vadergamerboss6660
    @vadergamerboss6660 4 года назад +36

    7:28
    Did they seriously just put a picture of the ship Queen Mary to represent the real Queen Mary?

    • @ventu7907
      @ventu7907 4 года назад

      Vadergamerboss 66 yup

    • @fionafiona1146
      @fionafiona1146 4 года назад +2

      They don't research that deeply and portraits might very well be copyrighted by the people digitising them.

  • @THEMMAJUNKIES
    @THEMMAJUNKIES 4 года назад +19

    The visual effect on the bottom right kept making me think my phones screen was dirty.

  • @xervislane770
    @xervislane770 4 года назад +17

    This disease just sounds like an extreme version of common cold. High temperature and easily transmitted. I'd say it is a deadly strain that eventually died out. Probably because it was killing too fast. I'm not a doctor so it is just a hypothesis

    • @Ikajo
      @Ikajo 2 года назад

      Technically, Covid19 is a cold virus 😬 so you could be right. Cold viruses mutate fairly quickly (as seen with covid) and that means you can be reinfected.
      Rhino viruses are usually less harmful while corona viruses has been behind several epidemics in modern times. Considering that it can take time for symptoms to become obvious, the timeline might have been longer than people thought.

    • @karahershey
      @karahershey 2 месяца назад

      Yes but the fever was much wrose then the a average cold

  • @nellylang1009
    @nellylang1009 4 года назад +211

    Time traveller: What year is it?
    Me: it's 2020
    Time traveller: Oh the first year quarantine
    Me: THE.WHAT?

    • @SwedeProof
      @SwedeProof 4 года назад +3

      D E L I L A H made me S M I L A H!
      (Sorry! I can't resist corny rhymes 🤔)

    • @emmalatchman3963
      @emmalatchman3963 4 года назад +6

      Nooooooooooooooooooo this joke means there will be more than one year please help me

    • @babyboop2878
      @babyboop2878 4 года назад +2

      I don't find this funny...

    • @emmalatchman3963
      @emmalatchman3963 4 года назад +3

      HELP MEEEEEEEE

    • @bellab41
      @bellab41 4 года назад

      😳😳😳😂😂😂👀

  • @honey_bee65
    @honey_bee65 4 года назад +66

    _"Mother"_
    Haha I see what you did there with that Danzig reference 👀

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 года назад +2

      Great, it's going to take a week to get that song out of my head now! (Not that I really mind, but...)

    • @StevenFox80
      @StevenFox80 4 года назад +5

      I actually hit pause to see who else got the reference! :D

    • @kaitoi138
      @kaitoi138 4 года назад +3

      I died when I saw danzig

  • @mel-ec1su
    @mel-ec1su 4 года назад +82

    *goes to heaven
    How did you die?
    - I did peacefully in my sleep while my family watched me drenching in tears
    - I sweat to death

    • @danantes5223
      @danantes5223 2 месяца назад

      I perspired, then expired.

  • @itsjustlukeRevive
    @itsjustlukeRevive 4 года назад +78

    Someone:
    Me: sweats profusely

  • @drunkengaming4782
    @drunkengaming4782 4 года назад +2

    Love the new humor approach to the channel, keep it up lol

  • @Strype13
    @Strype13 3 года назад +13

    Out of curiosity, would it be possible to exhume a corpse or two who were known to have died of this ailment? And perhaps take another look at it with our modernized medical knowledge?

    • @Ikajo
      @Ikajo 2 года назад

      The bodies could be exhumed but it is unlikely that any virus DNA could be extracted...

    • @lwscijunkie
      @lwscijunkie 4 месяца назад

      I know they've recovered the remains of Yersinia pestis bacteria from very old bubonic plague victims, and some investigators were able to find the 1918 super-flu from some Inuit graves but I don't know if anyone has tried to find any pathogen associated with sweating sickness from hundreds-years-old graves.

  • @EmpressMermaid
    @EmpressMermaid 4 года назад +25

    Charles Brandon was married to Henry's sister Mary, not his daughter Mary. (I think all women back then had about 5 names between them)

    • @Mr.Obongo
      @Mr.Obongo 4 года назад +3

      This is true. Same went for the guys.

    • @helene4397
      @helene4397 3 года назад +2

      Henry VIII's father was named Henry too.

  • @QuietFury9
    @QuietFury9 4 года назад +83

    A disease that targets certain age group? why does this sound familiar?

    • @ajyyyvl
      @ajyyyvl 4 года назад +7

      Shut up 🥱 literally every disease targets someone

    • @AjAj-of3bq
      @AjAj-of3bq 4 года назад +3

      @@ajyyyvl look behind you're ears

    • @AjAj-of3bq
      @AjAj-of3bq 4 года назад +4

      Now you'll shut up, in 7 days.

    • @QuietFury9
      @QuietFury9 4 года назад +5

      @@ajyyyvl oh yeah I forgot diabetes, heart disease and cancer target everyone. Not people with weak immune systems or anything like that. I better watch out when I leave my house or breast cancer might target me

    • @Hannah-zw9ow
      @Hannah-zw9ow 4 года назад +4

      @@QuietFury9 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer literally can and do happen to people of all ages, sexes, and ethnicities. *And* men can (and do) get breast cancer.
      Not understanding this stuff only hurts you, bud.

  • @TheJahnmichael
    @TheJahnmichael 4 года назад +50

    **SWEATS NERVOUSLY**

  • @oddhistory9353
    @oddhistory9353 4 года назад +10

    “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
    ― Nikola Tesla

  • @meganmiller261
    @meganmiller261 4 года назад +24

    I'm a red cross instructor. All of those symptoms are signs of a heart attack. I wonder if the virus directly attacked the heart, which is why you died so quickly from it?

  • @eddenyaaska2055
    @eddenyaaska2055 4 года назад +183

    Imagine the tiktok jokes and memes that would come from this if this was the pandemic that we're having right now.

    • @14kolbster
      @14kolbster 4 года назад +1

      Haha lol haha

    • @panopticon7883
      @panopticon7883 4 года назад +15

      @Wth happened to my name you have a way with words

    • @Mr.Obongo
      @Mr.Obongo 4 года назад +10

      Imagine if the dancing plague came back and the memes that would come from that

  • @barryallenflash1
    @barryallenflash1 4 года назад +6

    Playing "sweating to the oldies" in the background while watching this!

  • @seanharlow3091
    @seanharlow3091 4 года назад +22

    I thought my phone screen had dirt on it

  • @Lozenge95
    @Lozenge95 3 года назад +7

    5:26 looooove that Danzig moment... Mother!!!! 😂😭😂

  • @LibertyinHim2025
    @LibertyinHim2025 4 года назад +2

    This video definitely put the “weird” in Weird History,” as I had never heard of this before. Congrats!

  • @maddiG23
    @maddiG23 4 года назад +32

    Do a vid on Michael Malloy, the man who just wouldn’t die. A funny story on its own but I’d love to hear y’all tell it

    • @AvrahamYairStern
      @AvrahamYairStern 4 года назад +6

      Sam O'Nella fan I'm guessing?

    • @maddiG23
      @maddiG23 4 года назад +5

      Alexander the Great I actually first heard about him on the podcast “Dude That’s Fucked Up” but I partake in Sam O’Nella content too :)

    • @novastar7275
      @novastar7275 4 года назад

      I think they did one on him but I'm not sure

  • @hkbabel
    @hkbabel 4 года назад +7

    Perhaps something in bad batch of alcohol, and Danzig "Mother" reference made my day :-)

  • @charlesporter5586
    @charlesporter5586 4 года назад +46

    Weird history: Do a video on john snow and the cholera epidemic

    • @selbos
      @selbos 4 года назад +8

      Charles Porter he knows nothing.

    • @olbradley
      @olbradley 4 года назад +2

      @@selbos "You know nothing John Snow!"

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute 4 года назад

      But he always had great hair!

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 4 года назад

      This John Snow new something

  • @normoloid
    @normoloid 3 года назад +5

    For some reason I would look up possibility of fungal infection or poisoning of some sort as the culprit, mushrooms can afterall create pretty exotic toxins and it can take weeks until symptoms even occur, so it would have been pretty much impossible to link these two together.

  • @donkylefernandez4680
    @donkylefernandez4680 4 года назад +8

    Sounds like everyone's first playthrough of Plague Inc.

  • @ianmacfarlane1241
    @ianmacfarlane1241 4 года назад +8

    "I feel ill"😢
    "Don't sweat it"
    "Too late......."☠️

  • @karenhodges7545
    @karenhodges7545 4 года назад +7

    London burned when the plagues ended , as I was told. ALS, people started using mattresses instead of hay where mice would congregate leaving the bugs on mice that would spread the sickness with flea bites.
    The nursery rhyme, Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies, upstairs, downstairs, we all fall down” is about the plague.
    Enjoyed your video with so many facts. Thank you

    • @weareafteryou3975
      @weareafteryou3975 2 года назад

      1. Isn’t it “ashes”?
      2. Isn’t it about the bubonic plague?

  • @cynthiafisher3392
    @cynthiafisher3392 4 года назад +15

    I don’t suppose that there would be any grave of a person that died of it to dig up and investigate?

  • @patmccamy4126
    @patmccamy4126 4 года назад +1

    I just found your channel! I love it!!!! So much history - I love history!!!!! Thanks for teaching me things I just never knew!!!! Plus I enjoy watching the things I already know about!!! Thanks for this very informative channel!!!! Pat

  • @jenniferroach4153
    @jenniferroach4153 4 года назад +4

    I was going to say maybe it appeared to have more to do with upper class because the lower class wasn’t cared for enough to report. But I read a comment saying maybe wine or food which makes far more sense because the wealthy had means to things that the poor did not.

  • @carylestrera4392
    @carylestrera4392 4 года назад +4

    Binge watching on your vids during quarantine

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie 4 года назад +23

    Dude, Caius is said like "Keys".

    • @queenb1119
      @queenb1119 4 года назад +6

      Yes, thank you! Also, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was married to Henry VIII's SISTER Mary. NOT his DAUGHTER, Mary! Kind of makes you wonder what else they're getting wrong?! 🤔

  • @williamcarter1993
    @williamcarter1993 4 года назад +5

    goes out in 104F degree weather in the American South
    *SWEATS HEAVILY*
    _nervousness intensifies_

  • @a.c.v.7470
    @a.c.v.7470 2 года назад +2

    NEXT VIDEO IDEA: top 5 or 10 scariest diseases to get

  • @barbaralucas1220
    @barbaralucas1220 3 года назад +2

    This is just great! Adore history. Thank you so much 😊

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 4 года назад +5

    Liked that Richard Simmons reference!

  • @Kiterpuss
    @Kiterpuss 4 года назад +4

    I would hypothesize that whatever caused sweating disease operated on the immune system and induced some form of autoimmune response. The fever, inflammation, and rapid development of it sound like a severe immune reaction.

  • @wormymachine6386
    @wormymachine6386 4 года назад +13

    Yea. Do the dancing plague.

    • @WeirdHistory
      @WeirdHistory  4 года назад +5

      Already did - go to the end screen on this video

  • @drawyahown
    @drawyahown 4 года назад +1

    Interesting to find out more about my hometown, Colchester. Our town has so much history it's ridiculous and I love hearing some of it from channels like this.

  • @jodeedugger7570
    @jodeedugger7570 4 года назад +2

    I get horrible fevers and sweat horribly too everytime I am really sick maybe it’s the sweating plague? I don’t know but it’s uncomfortable and I feel like death every time but I live to see another day and am thankful for that.

  • @itskinaraaa
    @itskinaraaa 4 года назад +16

    Thank you *Weird History* for teaching us all the in-depth facts about some topics that we may, or may not have, already learned about!!!🙏🏾💯💯💯
    And making me feel like an the GOAT of all geniuses, when I ask my family if they knew about a fact from your videos and they say "um... No..?" 💪🏾😂

    • @candicehoneycutt4318
      @candicehoneycutt4318 4 года назад +1

      Unfortunately, they're not giving you entirely accurate info. There's a lot of little things they get wrong, like Charles Brandon being married to Henry's daughter. That never happened.

    • @taraelizabethdensley9475
      @taraelizabethdensley9475 4 года назад +1

      Way more interesting then the boring history they taught when i was at school

  • @RosiePosey5150
    @RosiePosey5150 4 года назад +8

    Danzig is one weird short bulky dude but love his music

  • @AxelC2020
    @AxelC2020 4 года назад +9

    This is just what I need right now. To know how deadly pandemics could be.

  • @gracefitzgerald2227
    @gracefitzgerald2227 4 года назад +1

    You had me at “ let’s sweat to this oldie”

  • @OneEyedLion
    @OneEyedLion 3 года назад +5

    The sweat seems to have disappeared once modern plumbing showed up. Maybe plumbers are more important than most think.

    • @playinglifeoneasy9226
      @playinglifeoneasy9226 4 месяца назад

      Plumbers are one of the most important occupations we could not live in cities or towns without proper plumbing and sanitation. Heck you can’t go to a concert with that sanitation and proper plumbing.