A Day in the Life of a Medieval Barber aka Budget Surgeon!?
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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In the Middle Ages, the barber-surgeon became the poor-man’s go to doctor. Someone to deal with the more mundane and dirty jobs. Jobs like bloodletting, pulling out teeth, dealing with minor wounds, rashes and burns. But as time went on they gradually became associated with much more skilled but gruesome tasks such as setting limbs, performing surgeries, even delivering babies and amputations. In this video, we continue our ‘day in the life’ series to see what life was like for the Medieval barber-surgeon.
0:00 Introduction
4:04 Badass
5:48 Cataracts
6:55 Hernia Repair
8:13 Battlefield Surgery
11:07 Bloodletting
12:00 Head Injury
🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by James Wade
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It looks like most of history was pretty brutal. Do I really have to save the future by sending all of the wicked back in time, and trapping their reincarnations in an endless timeloop? Imagine living the same lifetimes over and over in the medieval era. No wonder it's called the lake of fire.
Can we talk about a less disgusting profession next time?
Such as a baker or bodyguard of a Lord or Lady, or construction-worker ?
Thanks in advance🙏
1950s your italian barber would happily remove your young sons testicles!
That was the best plug EVER! Actually enjoyed listening to your ad! Big respect! That literally NEVER happens!
but what if I want to smell like a medieval peasant
The arrow puller was actually invented specifically for use on Henry V. Worked so well that the impoverished doctor was given a plot of land, homestead & an annual stipend.
The doctor knew to use honey and wine too. I can't believe he was impoverished
@@jonathanz.9675 Yeah...he liked to drink from what i understand & he tended to get himself in trouble w/ the authorities on occasion & as a matter if fact while this situ turned out to be a boon..if the young Henry V had died so would have our good doctor. Rather painfully im afraid. Lol
@@jonathanz.9675 Oh & also we must remember doctors weren't anywhere near as respected at all like they later became. It wasnt until the universities/state took over the teaching/ licensing of doctors & the clergy were banned from practicing that it even started to resemble the respect they would later garner for such.
How long was Henry V lying there with an arrow poking out of him while this guy did his inventing? Or did he invent it just in case?
@@simonosborne3047 look up "the history squad Henry V" he has a good video about it
I had an umbilical hernia repair almost a year ago, I have had nothing but problems since then, I cannot imagine having that surgery done during the middle ages, wow!
I've had two inguinal hernia repairs over the past 10 years. The medieval cure just curled my toes, but had to laugh at the voice-over when he quipped that it was "effective but dangerous, with the barber wildly stabbing around & hoping for the best".
As a barber , I feel completely confident in these procedures 😂. I can’t imagine a barber doing any of this. However, most still really trust their barbers today. We hear in detail the sordid lives , and intimate details of our clients. This is just mind blowing lol 😂.
Barber here as well. We might be doing some of these procedures again if the economy suffers any more 😄
All these surgeries give a new meaning to medieval madness
Knowledge to perform surgery today is paved by the experimentation of the past. It isn't madness when people are willing to subject themselves to immense pain or even become permanently crippled to rid themselves of their affliction.
Uppa peelers
Dr.Barber from flapjack makes actual sense now that's wild
I have had a few teeth removed without anything to numb my mouth. It’s actually not as bad as you think it is. It’s not as painful as the tooth ache that made me say I don’t care. Here’s a rag and pliers let’s do it. As long as the person that is pulling it doesn’t hesitate it’s over just like that. And your not in pain anymore.
That's really interesting!
Yup 100% true. The pain is in the roots, take it out and pain is gone
Wow that's actually really interesting. I've always imagined it would be agony, but I suppose if the tooth or gum is already in bad shape, it probably wouldn't compare to the pain of abscess or infection. I wonder if people in the Middle ages had to have their wisdom teeth removed?
Trepanning isn't actually as crazy at it sounds, today surgeons do sometimes remove skull plates to relieve swelling. Pretty sure they're usually put back in place once the swelling risk has decreased though.
I'm pretty sure skull knitting is the opposite of what you'd want to do following head trauma, again because of swelling
I'm not a squeamish person (I'm an embalmer) but, these procedures gave (even) me pause....... Love this channel!
I read that they used to reduce inguinal hernias by hanging the fellow from a tree by one leg; the belly muscles would relax & the pinched bowel could be pushed back in. I don’t know which leg.
So the barbers in World of Warcraft make sense after all. Who knew.
In the 17th century, barber-surgeons were often the operating doctors on (and patrons of) the castrati. The Catholic Church was in the practice of creating eunuchs at the time for the purposes of preserving a high singing range and achieving a quality of high voice not possible with female anatomy.
Wow. I guess the show isn't over until the castrated boy screams.
The fat lady gets to hold the beer.
At a certain point the church officially stopped the practice of doing it themselves but continued to take in new castrati singers. So families would present sons to the church with "convenient" injuries as potential castrati.
@@californiadreaming118 His name was Alessandro Moreschi and he is (or was) the last known castrato, and unfortunately he was not a great singer. The worst part of the castrati debacle is that most didn't turn out well and had to learn instruments or other trades. However, the recordings themselves are precious because with a little imagination (and possibly AI) we may be able to reconstruct the "ethereal" sound of men singing in a range they were never designed to.
As a matter of fact, IRCAM in Paris recreated the voice of Farinelli in 2008. If anyone at all can refer me to a recording, it would make my year.
Friend of mine once tried the old trick of tying a bad tooth to a door. Tied it round the wrong tooth & the car dragged him a hundred yards.
I like this Teletubby narrator voice for this video. Makes it easier to watch.
It's pretty much the same for all his videos.
@@Poodleinacan I am new year
Got to hand it to 'em, they certainly were A cut above the rest
i was just wondering if they gave themselves cute business names, like "the cutting edge" & "leg today, gone tomorrow"
Not medieval barber related, but just thought I’d share the correct way to pronounce Melbourne 😅
In Australia we say “Melb’n” The ‘ourne’ just becomes an ‘n’ sound 👍
They were the plastic surgeons of their day! Just with less botched jobs overall!
Back then, the physician and the surgeon were two different jobs; physicians considered most surgeries beneath them
Steve Martin's/SNL's greatest hour. Theodoric of York
We are so lucky lol
Even local anesthetic is a modern miracle
I had to have cataract surgery at 34. I couldn't even imagine having a barber surgeon perform the surgery!! 😮😮😮
knowing there was a job label of badass, makes me happy honestly.
I think I’d rather go blind than undergo medieval cataract surgery
I can't even wear contacts let alone have someone suck out my cataract. Yikes! lol
Definitely :))
Nope. Done with this video.
It works or it doesn't, either way it hurts! ...yeah not a great advert
Absolutely love this channel. Keep em coming!
Fascinating video. Thanks for covering lesser known job duties and social attitudes towards barber surgeons.
I don't look Anglo Saxon yet, but I'm working on the homeless look.
I look forward to these videos every week!!
hello , no better time in history to live , than , the age of modern medical technology ......for sure . great share , thank you , for sharing😊😊😊🥰🥰🥰🥰............
Remember, bloodletting was state of the art, modern medical technology of it's time right up until the 1800's. ;)
I recently learned your the editor for Top5's with a fantastic voice! I concur!
Nobody will probably get this, but "Theodoric of Yorick, is that you?"
That is one of my very favorite Steve Martin roles!
"Broom Gilda, take two pints." 😂
ruclips.net/video/edIi6hYpUoQ/видео.html
no wonder why the barber in flapjack was also a doctor
I miss the old RUclips. The one that didn't make me watch the same commercials over and over and over again.
You know when it was just other people making things for other people to watch.
Such a nostalgia is sweet, to not have to worry of bills to pay.
Go to your RUclips settings and switch them off.
I remember back when you controlled the entire background art, now we just have uniform channels with a stupid banner at the top.
The ads are out of control. This is *the* reason I broke down and got RUclips Premium. I listen to videos while doing housework, so I can't just skip an ad when I'm elbow deep in dishes or some other grime. Plus, the repetitive, or _ridiculously long_ ads raised my blood pressure. I'd be cleaning the bathroom, a 45 minute commercial would pop up, my blood pressure would go 📈, which, in turn, caused me to begin uttering profanities....and I never utter profanities.
@@LisaBowers I had premium RUclips. And I still got ads.
Cause if it's the content creators sponser they have to do the ads spill... You know for Huntakiller or manscape or wine bullshit.
Those aren't taken out
Interestingly, the sharpest and finest scalpels today are made from obsidian (volcanic glass) - and are used by eye surgeons - those barber surgeons could have had access to similar technology as obsidian was available at the time (I think)
Man this channel is so fire for everyday im learning something new about medival culture and life which overall was harsh
Cannula "can-you-lah"
Watching this then back to work.
Despite being the 'cheap' alternative barber surgeons were actually capable of doing something as physicians were following complete medical nonsense and did not soil their hands with surgery usually.
Those barbers kept hundreds of people alive for centuries. They were doing something right. And I don't think they were quite as rough as we would think. I'm sure they're more careful if they thought an area of the body was more dangerous to work on. They knew if you injured the guts, the person was dead. They didn't know what the guts all did, but they knew they were important.
8:03
Very effective, you say? At what, making me forget the hernia due to my searing hot stab wounds??
Right 😂 I'd rather have the hernia
Use my Dad's secret repair devise....duct tape. ;)
Yes, inflicting one type of pain to dull out another can be quite useful. If you ever see me walking down the street frantically beating up my own back, you'll know why.
Another great video.
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! 🎃
love this channel
In all the pictures the people like so happy to be having holes drilled in their heads.
One of the most accurate depictions of Medieval bloodletting can be seen in the 1925 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc.
There is a scene in that film where - for purposes of authenticity - both actress and director insisted that she actually be bled, and authentic period methods used.
Thanks for another great video that once again made me squirm!
Happy Halloween
Cool stuff
I always wondered about the medieval barber, they did surgeries and medical things, where did that start? Some guy getting a shave had a sudden appendix burst and the barber was like “screw it, I’ll take that bitch out! It will be an extra 27 cents, thanks for your patronage” hahaha
Tonsures better not become a thing.. That'll be my final straw before I completely give upon on humanity.
They ugly
Lmfao...awesome manscape transition
Cataracts!? Oh mylanta!
Just the only guy you knew with a sharp object
Get that bag bro
Nowadays, the only thing a barber might butcher is your hairline and the only death you'll die as a result is socially. What a time to be alive!
The four humours was actually Galen
12:20 you know it it horrible when even skull is in pain
This tradition continues today in a small way - it’s the reason why a surgeon in the UK is called Mr. (or Miss/Mrs for women surgeons) instead of Dr. Everywhere else it is Doctor Smith, in the UK it’s Mister Smith.
Living back then would suck
Hell yeah, Innocent III, the Pope that excommunicated one of my ancestors lmao
Skip to 2:20
I would like to ask some questions about the Middle Ages. Can I ask on facebook or instagram? Or is there a special section?
Seeing some of the medievil artwork it's straight up more horrific then any tales or horror movies can spin. Like drilling holes in heads and boiling people... dude.
A hernia is a break in the abdominal wall, usually caused by a birth defect.
These videos always leaves me so thankful that I live in the 21st century 😦😵
You’ll leave the hospital without legs but with a nice head of hair and a trimmed beard
Hey
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With my type of teeth, I would have big trouble keeping them all.
Not if you were a Viking, an African, or a Geisha. Those guys had perfect teeth. The various African tribes still have perfect teeth to this day.
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric It more that my teeth are prone to cavities.
Talk about multi tasking...
OUCH
Dr. Monk will be assisted by Dr. Barber.
... and here I am wigged out by needles
Its not Friday!?
I thought I was the only one questioning this.
being surgeon had to be more like Perk then job. imagine it
Can you imagine what sort of today jobs will be seen as ridiculous as barber-surgeons of the past are seen today? (I can't, but there must be some like that)
Probably psychiatry, we know so little about the brain. People in the future will look back on us in the same way we see the medievals.
Influencers...
Pretty sure the ancient indians performed the first eye surgeries, not the japanese.
Either way....ewwwww!
Sounds like barber surgons were much better than "educated" physicians. At least they learned from experience
People still use the stars because they think it works. Like horoscopes and other silliness.
There is not an Indian wedding or any other occasion that doesn't check with the stars first before choosing a date.
The thing about horoscopes is that they aren't calibrated to your specific time and place of birth.
Why was there a book on that ladies head in the very last picture? So random and weird.
If I’m around back then just let me die. Nobody is gonna know I have something wrong with me.
The swedish title was *"fältskär"* (feeldcutter) and oficial exams was given between 1797-1896.
And by 1896 1/3 was women.
(If memory serves me: ther was one active into 1950s? Maybe unofisial?)
N O P E NOPE N O P E
Being poor hurt in many ways
I'm guessing the words barbaric and barbarism is what led to calling them barbers? Or the other way around. Either way, this sheds new blood on the profession.
Barber is from the Latin word for "beard," barba. Barbarian is from a Greek word that meant "outsider/foreigner" and was imitative of what non-Greeks sounded like to them.
So they were actually kinda good at commiting macabre acts in the name of healing someone?
The tonsure's coming back into fashion? Jesus. Not so embarrassed to be old and equipped with my silly Boomer ponytail.
Budget Surgeon?
dam yo i need.more crack
Entertaining but many inaccuracies in the narration
L
I don't care what's in style. Getting a haircut is and always will be, a waste of time and money. Shaving on the other hand helps, because of how itchy beards tend to get. If you want to sell me a product, you should sponsor something that will permanently remove hair, so that I never have to shave again. We don't have those, because that would put the shaving market out of business. It is so degrading that I have to waste time and effort simply because businesses need to make money and we as a people refuse to evolve.
Remove the skin and the hair will follow
You could always scalp yourself?
Funny that hundreds of years later and still the poor can't afford to see a doctor in many places.
655th viewer
I don't know why I watched this listening to this made me very queasy 🤮
People should not complain as much as they do today. We live in the greatest time in all of recorded history. Safest. Richest. Healthiest. None of this can be disputed. Everyone suffers from recency bias. I guarantee you my hospital would be near empty if medicine were still this barbaric.
fake news, my barber still does bloodletting, you act like it's not supposed to be that way lmao, where else would I get rid of my bad humours?
20% of this video was an ad 😢
If I'm ever looking through a man's bathroom and see anything called "ball wash" or beard shampoo and conditioner I'm going to just leave immediately.
No words no discussion.
Just vanish.
He'll be waiting for me for hours and he will look to message me and all forms of communication will be blocked.
Ghosting to Max
He'll be glad he got rid of you and be sharing the contents of his clean sack with a woman more deserving.
Do you only use 1 type of soap?
@@davidmowbray6352 Um if you need multiple soaps to get clean maybe you need to see a doctor
@@MagdaleneDivine so is that a no then?
How often do you get to the bathroom before actually discussing hygiene? I mean, don’t let common sense get in the way though.
Enough with the ads. No one buying that crap..
I will never ever support any of these sponsers.
And I will never ever date or marry nor breed with any man that buys the manscape subscription service. Or even says manscaped
Do you not know how to forward the video? My dude.
@@NinjaGrrrl7734 She's quite clearly not a 'dude', you buffoon.
@@NinjaGrrrl7734 it's on every channel tho.
@@NinjaGrrrl7734 and I'm not your dude. I'm in any way anything of yours
@@NinjaGrrrl7734 I'm sick of goddamned being marketed to when all I want to do is watch a video. I'm sick of people asking for my money
And I also do not want any dudes that wash their balls in 14 dollar foaming wash.
What wrong with being zestfully clean or raise their hand if they are Sure?
I can't enjoy this now. I'm leaving
Can you just leave without leaving several comments? This isn't an airport - no need to announce your departure
aw poor you 😭 you won't be missed
@@elusive4557 K bye
This reminds me of “Tudor barber Bob the barber” on horrible histories