It became quite clear neither hack had ever even heard of the Hippocratic oath. Bearing in mind they were the only ones that even came close to a doctor and decided to have a duel...
"he died of natural causes". "six bullets wounds is natural causes?". "well naturally you'll die from six bullet wounds...". Can't remember which old western movie I saw that in but i've been trying to find for years. Such a funny statement.
If your anything like the vets I have visited, I’d rather take my chances with the cowboy doctors. Vets in the us are about money not helping animals. So in a way, the doctors of the time were probably on par with them, taking people’s money for bs treatment.
I get disappointed when I watch one of those videos and it isn't his narration. He's one of the best and reminds me of what's his face from the beginning of Fallout NV
I love this channel. As someone that loves history i never realised what the average person living in said pastimes would've experienced on a daily basis and now i have a fair idea. So thank you Weird History and keep doing what you're doing 😊❤
Seriously? You love History but yku need a fucking youtube Video to get an Idea of the Past? Thats a huge contradiction. I bet you just played Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed once and now you think youre totally into History 😂
@@louf7178 oh cool-I guess that makes sense doesn't it, ice can have a numbing effect to a degree like local anaesthetic, thanks for that! I've been thinking about ops without anaesthetics lately as I'm not long out of hospital from a 2 week stay because I badly broke my leg, needed a metal pin with 3 plates inserted, I've 2 smashed heels and needed a skin graft because they made a massive cut to relieve the pressure, without anaesthetics id probably have either lost my leg from the massive swelling (I had compartment syndrome) or my leg would have healed extremely badly. The amount of surgical procedures we are able to have now because of anaesthetics is amazing, we're extremely lucky
@@teethgrinder83 Yes, it was an enlightening reality. I wish well for your operation. And yes, modern medicine and surgery is quite amazing to me. I almost feel the level is tricky point of overload and over-confidence. I definitely feel personal discretion is needed amist the volume of patients, liability, interpretation etc...
@@louf7178 thanks a lot, I'm healing well now I just have to stay off my leg for another month or so, I'm lucky to have my partner helping me put when she's not working I get what you mean, some procedures have become so routine I think Dr need to be careful about becoming blasé about them yet I know their professionals. What bothers me more is many of us, especially in the developed world, have become so used to modern medicine curing or healing so many of our problems we've started forget about prevention-the fact we can have triple bypass surgery for example and heart attacks aren't so deadly makes it easier to forget for some how much of a problem it still is. But humans are great at finding it difficult to see long term goals and so for a lot of people (and to a degree I include myself) things like a good diet and exercise just isn't important. Some time soon this will have to change I think
Contrary to popular belief Union Army gave its patients anesthesia for amputations. Unfortunately, the other things done were questionable at times, such as "bleeding" and "blistering". There was always the wonder drug "Calomel" or Mercury Cl! I am a nurse. I don't ever recall seeing that on my medicine cart! Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
Im just wondering if the wild west breeded more of experimental medicine while the east coast used the more chill traditional medicine that wouldnt maim you
Yep but they didnt know about microbes yet Knowledge of airborne pathogens fidnt come for quite some time, not sure exactly if before or around this time
@@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.
@@biancastepney1517 hey if you want your kids to be born with genetic conditions like blindness deformed bodies and diseases that cause an early and painful death that will make them hate themselves then you do you
@@supremesoldier354 nah I just want them to not be forcibly sterilized because the people in power decided that racial minorities are impurities on the human species :)
Blistering with chili paste might have had some value since capsaicin, a chemical in chili peppers, is now put into topical ointments to treat painful conditions. Capsaicin is said to block substance P which is part of the cause of pain.
1:19 That is not a photo of a doctor and a patient. That is a photo of a mortician and a corpse during the Civil War being inbalmbed to be sent back home to family.
Good Day! Thank You for your excellent video! I really enjoy your channel. May I suggest a topic for a new episode? Being a Steamboat operator on the Mississippi River in the middle of the 19th century. Operating, and being a passenger on a Steamboat in the 1850's, on the Mississippi River System was quite hazardous. Groundings, sinkings, fires, boiler explosions, lack of any safety equipment, and races between competing boats were quite common. The steamboats though enabled the rapid settlement & growth in the midwest & the southeast. The explosion & fire on the Steamboat Sultana, a "Troop Ship" at the end of the Civil War, caused the death of the more passengers than the sinking of the Titanic.
Eugene Kosinski Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain was a dreamboat pilot on the Mississippi - there is a wealth of info on him. I love that steamboat experience!
1 dollar in 1850 is 33 dollars in todays money. 33 dollars = 29e. Visiting doctor in finland costs about 20-25e. So seeing a doctor in american old west costs more than seeing one in todays finland :D
D.A. Risse exactly yet some people expect others to pay having no idea what “free healthcare” means. Someone is paying, nothing is free. I have great healthcare that I pay for myself.
The duel with pistols sounds like a great way to resolve today's health insurance disputes. Charging a fee for spectators should cover any funeral costs.
People we certainly tougher back then, I couldn't have coped with these 'treatments'. I can understand why they drank so much whiskey back then, I think I'd want to be wasted too.
People also drank so much whiskey (and previously rum and previously lager and previously ale) because there wasn't exactly clean, good-tasting water readily available Soft drinks wouldn't really be a thing for a while either, and when they did start, they were more remedy then casual drinking
@@OatmealTheCrazy That was true for areas in Europe. But it was low-alcohol beer. U can't get hydrated from 80 proof alcohol! And it was prob higher back then. They drank to get fucked up, just like now.
Reminds me of that time as Arthur Morgan when he got tb and went to the doctor and paid $16 which was alot back then just for him to tell him to take it easy
Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...” Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!” Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.” Women: “...”
@@pathologicaldoubt it was fantastic honestly xD. As a woman I hate that shit more than anyone else. What's better is when they say, "when have any women waged war/done bad things" you give them a whole laundry list of shit and they fumble to give a response.
Exactly. We have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves every now and then and demand respect vs earning trust that turns into bonds of respect. Our society has halted our progress as a species once identity politics became the focus. Divide and conquer.
Author Roald Dahl’s (Matilda, Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc) father lost his arm because a drunk doctor confused his father’s broken arm for a dislocated shoulder. Which resulted in his father losing the arm. That happened in Norway, but Roald Dahl recounts the story in his book Boy, as well as other medical situations Roald and his family went through in England. Makes you glad modern medicine is a thing 😂
In the Army, smart soldiers use their own sharpie to mark the limbs the Doc is NOT supposed to cut off so they are safe while we are unconscious on the table. Army Docs in America still have a habit of AMPUTATING THE WRONG LIMB! Imagine you waking up to find they cut off your only working arm! "Oops, sorry about that. My bad. I read the chart wrong". Still happens to this day, and will happen again tommorrow. But it's free health care...
10:31 “Who would you go to if you caught a fever knowing your doctor would recommend drinking sulfur with a whiskey chaser?” Best Doctor prescription ever! hahahaha
Before Dr, Quinn was on, there was a Canadian show called "Bordertown" with a lady doctor. They got the idea for Dr. Quinn from that show. ruclips.net/video/8LxBvY7xZo4/видео.html
It's weird to look back on history to see how little they knew. Makes me wonder in 200 years from now will the future generation look back on us and talk about how little we know....? food for thought.
I was an old West doctor. I remember past lives. I was a stickler for washing my hands and using carbolic acid for cleaning my instruments I had been issued as a Union surgeon in the War between the States. I did use probes for finding bullets and removing them. I did stitch up bad cuts with a needle and horse hair. I often attended births but really never did surgery for babies caught in the pelvis, it was sad to see the mother and infant die. I did have chloroform and used it. I did cut off cancerous teats but that was a big deal with poor results most often. I treated pain of old wounds with veterans with Laudenum. The catarrh called for whiskey and tobacco smoke to clear the lungs. It was a good life.
@@kevingonzalez3673 Very true! 🤭 I was thinking more along the lines of Jane Seymour's character. If not, I would prefer Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie. If I researched him, I would probably find a poor track record, too. Besides, both would be out of network. So, I would have to pay them with chickens or something. What kind of quality service should I expect when paying with poultry? 🤷🏻♀️ (😆)
@@steveruby2120 didn't most of the Natives die from diseases though? I'm sure their herbal knowledge was pretty good, but so was European medicine at the time. Really, allowing these psychopaths to become "Doctors" was irresponsible, and training was awful.
The natives lived thousands of years until Europeans brought diseases to them of which they had no defense. A lot died from wars and starvation, due to killing off of the buffalo and driving them off of their lands by Europeans. No kind of medicine would cure that.
@@ingunakirsteine4336 yep, thats where the barbers gets the red and white double helix thing. White for shave cream, red for blood, and its a stylized caeduceus: the the winged twined serpent design used for centuries to denote doctors.
*oil of cloves was often given for tooth aches Clove oil contains a chemical called eugenol, which acts as an anesthetic and antibacterial agent. Clove oil is anti-inflammatory and antifungal*
Lol I LOVE this channel!! So happy I found it!! I binge a few episodes every morning first thing with my coffee and I always find myself laughing. “Yes the majority of patients who underwent bloodletting by cutting open their jugular had the prognosis you e probably guessed.... they died!!” (Close as I could remember but still hilarious). Your sarcasm is exactly my kind of humor!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁
@profnasty Good for you. At least you didn't spend 20-30 years of your life paying off medical operation debts like my family did. Next time troll some one who has earned it, Mr Holier than thou.
Great video! I love medical history, and especially its acceptance/rejection by the general public. It's also fascinating to see how some of medicine's greatest advances were accidental. Like noticing that the cleaner the hands and instuments were, the fewer patients died of secondary infections. Even Dr. Fleming sort of Forrest Gumped into penicillin, and it was the biggest game changer in history.
Love hearing Placerville, CA in a video, I have family there! It’s still an extremely woodsy, isolated and old-fashioned place. And pretty close to Sutter Creek, which is where the California gold rush officially started :) which is a pretty interesting story in itself! Just a heads up though, the locals pronounce it “Plah-cerville,” not “Play-cerville.” Great video as always!
Marie lol I’m sorry, I live in San Francisco. A small town hours from any significant cities, where everything moves slower and looks like it was built in the 80’s, counts as “isolated” to many people, so there’s no need to nitpick. I love Placerville but Shangri-la it is not 😂
Can y'all do an episode on James Barry?? First transgender doctor and FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY preform a cesarean birth in which both the mother and child lived. I mean the man traveled with a goat friend so he could have fresh milk wherever he went! Please do him for an episode!!!
@@joshuaroe1402 and what mental illness what that? I've never heard of him being ill? He was known to be hot headed and got into fights easily, but I've never seen any documentation of any sort of mental illness
At 00.58 seconds "for the most part medicine was a cut throat business" that is what's called an unintended pun, good job. PS; I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks
This is so interesting. It's crazy that there are so doctor's that have all the schooling in the world and they seem that they don't know what are doing. Great video.
American medical education was put on a rigorous basis by the Flexner Report. A book, _The Great Influenza_ by John Barry, discusses the intertwining of medical education, the 1918 pandemic, and the beginnings of institutionalized medical research. Fine writing as well as informative.
“Clam was wounded from three body shots. Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded... he was dead.”
It checks out, that is indeed more wounded.
That made me chuckle.
It became quite clear neither hack had ever even heard of the Hippocratic oath.
Bearing in mind they were the only ones that even came close to a doctor and decided to have a duel...
"he died of natural causes". "six bullets wounds is natural causes?". "well naturally you'll die from six bullet wounds...". Can't remember which old western movie I saw that in but i've been trying to find for years. Such a funny statement.
@@Me4-gc8qs lol... just ask Google ... it knowwws... haha
When the cure is worse than the disease.
Morbius!
@Tiberiu Farcas you might want to listen. Sir.
@@Jessica-to8um
True fair point
Then nothing has changed
Still happening today
"He was slightly more wounded.
He was dead."
Well played sir.
"slightly more" was classic!
I was a veterinary assistant, and I watch a lot of RUclips. I could have been the best doctor in the Wild West.
Oh god ya 😂
Ya.....no
Keith Adams you right he prolly would have more experience then most of them fools lmao
RUclips about medicine, biology and Health you mean?
If your anything like the vets I have visited, I’d rather take my chances with the cowboy doctors. Vets in the us are about money not helping animals. So in a way, the doctors of the time were probably on par with them, taking people’s money for bs treatment.
Had a doctor to tell me to go home and drink beer to get rid of a kidney stone. That happen thirty years ago. Been following his advice ever since.
Just one beer once you have the stone, or a beer a day to prevent it, or a beer a day until the stone dissolves?
@@HeidiAndScots Don't really know. Passed the stone and never went back to see him again. He never called me and told me to quit drinking beer.
Lemon juice
Well ethanol *is* a potent diuretic
@@paulashmore4521 Yeah idk, I've known alcoholics who still got kidney stones...
100 years ago you go to the dentist and he’d pull your tooth and give you a haircut afterwards.
A two for one
I'd say more like 150-200 years ago but yeah basically lol
Now they fix teeth. And give kids candy afterwards... BRUSH YOUR TEETH. LOL.
Don’t forget he’d shoe your horse since blacksmiths did all of that stuff too.
the red & white striped barbed pole symbol represents blood and bandages, dating back at least a couple centuries.
I love this narrators voice...
I love you 😘
Dire 💋
I get disappointed when I watch one of those videos and it isn't his narration. He's one of the best and reminds me of what's his face from the beginning of Fallout NV
Right? I really wonder who is he. Would be great to put a face to this voice
Doctor Remulak focus on your girls than since there so hot and fuck off and leave me alone...
Can you do a video about medicines from the Victorian era??
lead and mercury. maybe arsenic.
preferably in ass high doses.
if that doesn't help, open veines
good luck.
Interesting
A lot of morphine... Heroin an cocaine meds in the Victorian age
@@sarabyczynski4440 sounds like a party
the wild west overlapped with the Victorian era tbh
I love this channel. As someone that loves history i never realised what the average person living in said pastimes would've experienced on a daily basis and now i have a fair idea. So thank you Weird History and keep doing what you're doing 😊❤
Seriously? You love History but yku need a fucking youtube Video to get an Idea of the Past?
Thats a huge contradiction.
I bet you just played Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed once and now you think youre totally into History 😂
@@ahabduennschitz7670it's been a year since you made this comment. Do you have any regrets?
"Doctors do the Devil's work!"
ah yes, the immortal Karen.
And the insurence company
Abortion doctors do.
Anaesthetics is one of humanities greatest medical inventions that's for sure lol
The tidbit of info. I heard from the script of Gunsmoke by Doc Adams was "ice is the earliest know method of [local] anesthesia.
@@louf7178 oh cool-I guess that makes sense doesn't it, ice can have a numbing effect to a degree like local anaesthetic, thanks for that!
I've been thinking about ops without anaesthetics lately as I'm not long out of hospital from a 2 week stay because I badly broke my leg, needed a metal pin with 3 plates inserted, I've 2 smashed heels and needed a skin graft because they made a massive cut to relieve the pressure, without anaesthetics id probably have either lost my leg from the massive swelling (I had compartment syndrome) or my leg would have healed extremely badly. The amount of surgical procedures we are able to have now because of anaesthetics is amazing, we're extremely lucky
@@teethgrinder83 Yes, it was an enlightening reality.
I wish well for your operation.
And yes, modern medicine and surgery is quite amazing to me. I almost feel the level is tricky point of overload and over-confidence. I definitely feel personal discretion is needed amist the volume of patients, liability, interpretation etc...
@@louf7178 thanks a lot, I'm healing well now I just have to stay off my leg for another month or so, I'm lucky to have my partner helping me put when she's not working
I get what you mean, some procedures have become so routine I think Dr need to be careful about becoming blasé about them yet I know their professionals. What bothers me more is many of us, especially in the developed world, have become so used to modern medicine curing or healing so many of our problems we've started forget about prevention-the fact we can have triple bypass surgery for example and heart attacks aren't so deadly makes it easier to forget for some how much of a problem it still is. But humans are great at finding it difficult to see long term goals and so for a lot of people (and to a degree I include myself) things like a good diet and exercise just isn't important. Some time soon this will have to change I think
Contrary to popular belief Union Army gave its patients anesthesia for amputations. Unfortunately, the other things done were questionable at times, such as "bleeding" and "blistering". There was always the wonder drug "Calomel" or Mercury Cl! I am a nurse. I don't ever recall seeing that on my medicine cart! Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
4:35 Medical care was a “cutthroat business”... doctor severed the jugular as a cure. Apparently medical journals weren’t a thing yet.
Technically death *is* a cure for all diseases...
Im just wondering if the wild west breeded more of experimental medicine while the east coast used the more chill traditional medicine that wouldnt maim you
I bet a bar of modern day antibacterial soap would be worth its weight in gold.
Bet you could sell seashells as gold if you're a good talker back in those days..
Witchcraft!!!
Yep but they didnt know about microbes yet
Knowledge of airborne pathogens fidnt come for quite some time, not sure exactly if before or around this time
@@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.
Germ theory wasn't completely adopted by the medical community at the time
"Women doctors were totally a thing in Oregon"
Me: That's great!
"She was a big proponent of eugenics"
Me: Thats not so great
But eugenics is generally not a bad idea....
Everyone practices eugenics on some level.
@@supremesoldier354 it's a terrible idea
@@biancastepney1517 hey if you want your kids to be born with genetic conditions like blindness deformed bodies and diseases that cause an early and painful death that will make them hate themselves then you do you
@@supremesoldier354 nah I just want them to not be forcibly sterilized because the people in power decided that racial minorities are impurities on the human species :)
And here i was complaining that getting into a doctors appointment these days takes forever.😅😅😅
You didnt feed your horse :/
Loving this wild west content you've been churning out lately. Keep it up!
Blistering with chili paste might have had some value since capsaicin, a chemical in chili peppers, is now put into topical ointments to treat painful conditions. Capsaicin is said to block substance P which is part of the cause of pain.
1:19 That is not a photo of a doctor and a patient. That is a photo of a mortician and a corpse during the Civil War being inbalmbed to be sent back home to family.
I guess it's the best they could do lol
I dont remember asking
The cowboy on his horse looks mexican AF. I thought it was Emiliano Zapata
He said it wasnt him, in the top left corner
That may be the point. Same thing.
Got a Cold? “Oh you need an ear nail” 101f Fever?? “You need a donkey kickin’”
Cordero Rojas I cannot stop laughing at this lmfaooooooo
B.U.N/ Watcher
Might be better than a donkey dickin.
no boner in sight and missus in bad mood? have this outstanding aphrodisiac made of spider legs and lizard testicles _bone 'er tonight!_
Great movie
Good Day! Thank You for your excellent video! I really enjoy your channel. May I suggest a topic for a new episode? Being a Steamboat operator on the Mississippi River in the middle of the 19th century. Operating, and being a passenger on a Steamboat in the 1850's, on the Mississippi River System was quite hazardous. Groundings, sinkings, fires, boiler explosions, lack of any safety equipment, and races between competing boats were quite common. The steamboats though enabled the rapid settlement & growth in the midwest & the southeast. The explosion & fire on the Steamboat Sultana, a "Troop Ship" at the end of the Civil War, caused the death of the more passengers than the sinking of the Titanic.
Eugene Kosinski Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain was a dreamboat pilot on the Mississippi - there is a wealth of info on him. I love that steamboat experience!
1800- 25 cents to see a doctor
2020- 25k plus crippling debt to see a doctor (for Americans)
1 dollar in 1850 is 33 dollars in todays money. 33 dollars = 29e. Visiting doctor in finland costs about 20-25e. So seeing a doctor in american old west costs more than seeing one in todays finland :D
Loki Dog true. Health “insurance” can deny claims eh. What a scam but a great industry to work in.
RADIO THE ARTIST That’s not hyperbolic at ALL!! 🙄
You get what you pay for.
D.A. Risse exactly yet some people expect others to pay having no idea what “free healthcare” means. Someone is paying, nothing is free. I have great healthcare that I pay for myself.
I have the same opinion of a lot of the Doctors that are practicing today.
Three ways to die in the West
One of them doctor assisted.
I just love this channel.
The use of fish hooks in this one gave me the willies
Me too!
The duel with pistols sounds like a great way to resolve today's health insurance disputes. Charging a fee for spectators should cover any funeral costs.
That sure sounds great
Slowing becoming more of a possibility lol
People we certainly tougher back then, I couldn't have coped with these 'treatments'. I can understand why they drank so much whiskey back then, I think I'd want to be wasted too.
5
you down feel the pain so much when drunk, you know. especially with lead bullets and fists flying around, you know.
They didn’t know any better.
People also drank so much whiskey (and previously rum and previously lager and previously ale) because there wasn't exactly clean, good-tasting water readily available
Soft drinks wouldn't really be a thing for a while either, and when they did start, they were more remedy then casual drinking
@@OatmealTheCrazy That was true for areas in Europe. But it was low-alcohol beer. U can't get hydrated from 80 proof alcohol! And it was prob higher back then. They drank to get fucked up, just like now.
Reminds me of that time as Arthur Morgan when he got tb and went to the doctor and paid $16 which was alot back then just for him to tell him to take it easy
Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...”
Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!”
Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.”
Women: “...”
A woman was speechless? No way.
I'm kidding, hacky '80s joke. I'll see myself out.
pathologicaldoubt ah yes, because the male doctors had such high ethical standards in comparison
FYI this post was merely meant to illuminate the idiocy of identity politics.
@@pathologicaldoubt it was fantastic honestly xD. As a woman I hate that shit more than anyone else. What's better is when they say, "when have any women waged war/done bad things" you give them a whole laundry list of shit and they fumble to give a response.
Exactly. We have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves every now and then and demand respect vs earning trust that turns into bonds of respect. Our society has halted our progress as a species once identity politics became the focus. Divide and conquer.
I’d go to the Native American medicine man!!
Yep. I'm black though so I'd probably have some good slave remedy medicine. My granny had medical recipes from her great granny who was a slave....
Author Roald Dahl’s (Matilda, Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc) father lost his arm because a drunk doctor confused his father’s broken arm for a dislocated shoulder. Which resulted in his father losing the arm. That happened in Norway, but Roald Dahl recounts the story in his book Boy, as well as other medical situations Roald and his family went through in England. Makes you glad modern medicine is a thing 😂
It really makes me wonder how modern medicine even got started when every doctor was trying to use blood letting to cure everything.
In the Army, smart soldiers use their own sharpie to mark the limbs the Doc is NOT supposed to cut off so they are safe while we are unconscious on the table. Army Docs in America still have a habit of AMPUTATING THE WRONG LIMB! Imagine you waking up to find they cut off your only working arm! "Oops, sorry about that. My bad. I read the chart wrong". Still happens to this day, and will happen again tommorrow. But it's free health care...
Dahl was also the host of “Way Out “ a tv show similar to the Twilight Zone. In the 60s.
@@andrewflowers6794 You mean they might amputate your leg that is in the middle of the two other legs? 😅
10:31 “Who would you go to if you caught a fever knowing your doctor would recommend drinking sulfur with a whiskey chaser?”
Best Doctor prescription ever! hahahaha
Just take Drano and chase it with Brandy.
Sulphur was used often it seems
i’d just go to the afterlife if someone told me to drink sulfur and whiskey 💀
Unless, you go to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Loved that show!!
The real Quinn would have killed her patients too.
One of my favorite shows ever
Or Doc Adams
Before Dr, Quinn was on, there was a Canadian show called "Bordertown" with a lady doctor. They got the idea for Dr. Quinn from that show.
ruclips.net/video/8LxBvY7xZo4/видео.html
Oh purging just sounds lovely. You can still accomplish that by just eating at Taco Bell.
Or at any Indian restaurant.
Ramen and mtn dew together is better than any laxative
@@Lovinia1 TMI
No thanks. I will take the mercury slurpee.
Great video! Love everything related to the old west! But please do a video about courtesans during roman times!
Let me guess. Your options were: Amputation, Bloodletting, Mercury, or laudanum.
*Spin the wheel to chose your treatment...no whammies*
I'll take laudanum.
Easy choice for me. I have polycythemia vera. I had a blood letting only last week. Could I get a blood letting _and_ the laudanum?
that'll be laudanum for me, then.
COWABUNGA it is!
Laudanum for the win.
Just finished playing Red Dead Redemption 2 to see this lol
Thanks for another great video. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
4: Drink until you can't feel your face.
It's weird to look back on history to see how little they knew. Makes me wonder in 200 years from now will the future generation look back on us and talk about how little we know....? food for thought.
They will somewhat, but we actually understand the world around us a ton more than they did in the past.
Definitely interesting. The early settlers really were tough people. They are so under appreciated today.
Best RUclips channel ever, good job keep on doing what u do !!!!
"I'm a doctor too." - Dr. Steve Brule
I really appreciate this channel. Thanks so much for the fun informative vids hehe.
Cowboy: Doc, I got a sliver in my thumb.
Doctor: Yeah, you need an ear nail.
I was an old West doctor. I remember past lives. I was a stickler for washing my hands and using carbolic acid for cleaning my instruments I had been issued as a Union surgeon in the War between the States. I did use probes for finding bullets and removing them. I did stitch up bad cuts with a needle and horse hair. I often attended births but really never did surgery for babies caught in the pelvis, it was sad to see the mother and infant die. I did have chloroform and used it. I did cut off cancerous teats but that was a big deal with poor results most often. I treated pain of old wounds with veterans with Laudenum. The catarrh called for whiskey and tobacco smoke to clear the lungs. It was a good life.
I was one of your patients. Fuck you
I would like to think that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would have been my physician. (😄)
The real medicine woman killed most of her patients.
@@kevingonzalez3673 Very true! 🤭 I was thinking more along the lines of Jane Seymour's character. If not, I would prefer Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie. If I researched him, I would probably find a poor track record, too.
Besides, both would be out of network. So, I would have to pay them with chickens or something. What kind of quality service should I expect when paying with poultry? 🤷🏻♀️ (😆)
@@JenniferMenendez522 😹😹😹
Jane Seymour can give me a physical anytime
Of course u would 🙄
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a fascinating and shocking history, a real "A-ha" moment!
I wish someone would have written down Native American cures. I think we would be better off.
Ummm... Probably not.
The combination of what they knew and what we've learned would make us better off.
At the time, yes I think they were very good with natural medicine
@@steveruby2120 didn't most of the Natives die from diseases though? I'm sure their herbal knowledge was pretty good, but so was European medicine at the time. Really, allowing these psychopaths to become "Doctors" was irresponsible, and training was awful.
The natives lived thousands of years until Europeans brought diseases to them of which they had no defense. A lot died from wars and starvation, due to killing off of the buffalo and driving them off of their lands by Europeans. No kind of medicine would cure that.
Binge by Tyler Oakley was actually an advert that made it sound tempting! Gonna search for reviews now.
Good video too, thanks.
Going to a dentist would interest me
That's the barber you're looking for, not a doctor.
@@ingunakirsteine4336 yep, thats where the barbers gets the red and white double helix thing. White for shave cream, red for blood, and its a stylized caeduceus: the the winged twined serpent design used for centuries to denote doctors.
Don't forget the bloodletting at the barber!
*oil of cloves was often given for tooth aches Clove oil contains a chemical called eugenol, which acts as an anesthetic and antibacterial agent. Clove oil is anti-inflammatory and antifungal*
Liking this before I go to bed. Good night!
In one word: *PAINFUL*
Grew up 20 minutes from downtown Placerville. I love the history out of that town! Been to some really cool spots out that way in the back woods.
”I have good news and bad news. Good news I got rid of your cough, bad news you’re addicted to heroin“
thats actually modern day
@@stopabledu nice catch 🤔💀
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Lol I LOVE this channel!! So happy I found it!! I binge a few episodes every morning first thing with my coffee and I always find myself laughing. “Yes the majority of patients who underwent bloodletting by cutting open their jugular had the prognosis you e probably guessed.... they died!!” (Close as I could remember but still hilarious). Your sarcasm is exactly my kind of humor!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁
It was appreciated you mentioned Native contributions, even if they weren't recognized back then by most.
I mean can we put parentheses around calling them doctors? It's a drunk guy. Who told you got ghosts in your blood.
Great channel ! Glad I found it !
Creepy. Being as I've had like 20+ operations I am so glad I did not live in that era as I don't think I'd survive the _cure_.
@profnasty Good for you. At least you didn't spend 20-30 years of your life paying off medical operation debts like my family did. Next time troll some one who has earned it, Mr Holier than thou.
Loved this one! We try to preserve history too!
That must be where the old saying comes from about if it doesn't kill you it should cure you. LOL
*doesn't mention the fact that you may be cured but a bit....off afterwards*
I love this episode. I always look forward to new ones.
Great video! I love medical history, and especially its acceptance/rejection by the general public. It's also fascinating to see how some of medicine's greatest advances were accidental. Like noticing that the cleaner the hands and instuments were, the fewer patients died of secondary infections. Even Dr. Fleming sort of Forrest Gumped into penicillin, and it was the biggest game changer in history.
Fleming didn't understand the potential therapeutic uses of penicillin, which had to wait for the WWII effort with Florey, Chain, and others.
I love this channel so much.
1800s flu: i have yee'd my last haw.
2020 corona: 蝙蝠汤
GirdleMcSturtle lmao😅😂😂😂😂
For anyone who doesn’t know what that means, 蝙蝠汤 means “bat soup”
try to dig for gold when banned to home office, mate
I- it's beautiful...there are no ads 🥺😍😭
I'm here for the Red Dead Redemption2 comments....
I live in Placerville! I never thought this little town would be mentioned! 😂🥳 I almost dropped my phone when it was mentioned lmao
Epitaph on old west tombstone- I told you I was sick!
Ahhh, good old Hangtown. I love learning little tidbits about the area.
I saw “snake oil” in the thumbnail and I immediately thought of RDR 2
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were the first couple mins of this video reference in your old west video, or is that just me
Love hearing Placerville, CA in a video, I have family there! It’s still an extremely woodsy, isolated and old-fashioned place. And pretty close to Sutter Creek, which is where the California gold rush officially started :) which is a pretty interesting story in itself! Just a heads up though, the locals pronounce it “Plah-cerville,” not “Play-cerville.” Great video as always!
Idk if I would call the town isolated, the population is over 20,000. But woodsy it is indeed (once you’re out of town).
Marie lol I’m sorry, I live in San Francisco. A small town hours from any significant cities, where everything moves slower and looks like it was built in the 80’s, counts as “isolated” to many people, so there’s no need to nitpick. I love Placerville but Shangri-la it is not 😂
It's amazing how far we've came since then. I'd love to see technology in 100 years from now.
Same.
Loving these video's 😉😊😁😎
if I had a fever back then I would see an Indian tribe's person for holistic medicine that they used for generations!
Middle school teacher here! Love your videos. ❤️ I’d love to see a video about teacher expectations/requirements in the 1800s-1900s.
That's easy and summed up in one word..... indoctrination
Can y'all do an episode on James Barry?? First transgender doctor and FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY preform a cesarean birth in which both the mother and child lived. I mean the man traveled with a goat friend so he could have fresh milk wherever he went! Please do him for an episode!!!
Asher White That is quite an accomplishment doing all of that while suffering from a mental illness.
@@joshuaroe1402 and what mental illness what that? I've never heard of him being ill? He was known to be hot headed and got into fights easily, but I've never seen any documentation of any sort of mental illness
She must have been quite good at pretending to be male. In those days she would be driven out of town or shot.
I live right next to old town Placerville and I’ve never heard of that story!! Very cool!!
Doctors after drug laws " We need medical cocaine!"
At 00.58 seconds "for the most part medicine was a
cut throat business" that is what's called an unintended pun, good job.
PS; I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks
Can you do a video about childbirth? I find it interesting of how it changed in the 1800's to how it is now. Or even before the 1800's
This is so interesting. It's crazy that there are so doctor's that have all the schooling in the world and they seem that they don't know what are doing. Great video.
* looks at his soft serve chocolate swirl and frowns *
Would you do a video of the Golden age in holland? The paintings of van gogh and such and the voc ships
Watching this made me want to learn more about the medical schools that taught these Doctors. They believed in some strange remedies.
American medical education was put on a rigorous basis by the Flexner Report. A book, _The Great Influenza_ by John Barry, discusses the intertwining of medical education, the 1918 pandemic, and the beginnings of institutionalized medical research. Fine writing as well as informative.
@@howardberkowitz5379 Thanks for the suggestion!
I love this channel! ❤️ Wow! I had no idea that doctors defended their territory quite like that!
Do one on Freemasons or secret societies!
Fucking normie
Freemasonry isn't a secret society; we're listed in the phone book, for Christ's teeth!
Love the video! Please make a video about the Salem Witch trials!
A doctor treated an outlaw in 1899, the dr diagnosed him with tuberculosis
Interesting 🧐... but those poor poor people 😱 😢...
Well, I have to be “that guy”. Placerville is pronounced “plasserville”, not plaiserville
Thank you
Definitely fine by me.
Can you do a video of the old history of Grand rapids Michigan
**Goes to the doctor in the wild west**
The doctor:
poor leg with a minor rash, it’d be a shame if i had to
*TAKE IT*
Lmaooooo
Your contents are just best...fan from india...😊😊😊
I had fever once and the only cure was more cow bell
I love the intro lol hoped right into character