Surviving The Middle Ages as an ill Person...

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  • Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025

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  • @alm5992
    @alm5992 Год назад +118

    Medieval Doctor: Hmm, how could I satiate my love for random concoctions and unfounded hatred of animals at the same time?

  • @NixieEppler
    @NixieEppler Год назад +72

    As soon as you said onion and garlic I KNEW they were gonna put it directly in the eyes. What a time to be alive

  • @bingus_chezborgo
    @bingus_chezborgo Год назад +77

    It’s amazing how it seems they managed to put random ingredients that might have some health benefits together with a specific order of preparation and end up with a great cure for particular diseases

    • @The_Captainn
      @The_Captainn Год назад +7

      It's because they weren't "random ingredients" for the most part.

    • @LucienSabre
      @LucienSabre Год назад +25

      ​@@The_Captainn For the most part they (the ingredients) sure were random, and in fact for most patients those remedies not only did nothing to help but worsened things or were even fatal.

    • @marierejoiceinjesus3846
      @marierejoiceinjesus3846 Год назад +3

      It's just like what they still do 😂

    • @GBfanatic15
      @GBfanatic15 Год назад +5

      some of it was maybe random ingredients but a lot of these were likely old recipes passed down from generation to generation by teaching their kids how to do it and eventually writing it down. of course plenty of it didn't actually work but some of them were recipes they knew worked

    • @nodruj8681
      @nodruj8681 Год назад +2

      When other cultures do it: It's medicine
      When euros do it: Teehee even though it works its all random and stupid roflmao@@LucienSabre

  • @angeloflifelight
    @angeloflifelight Год назад +76

    One of my history teachers had a project where each student had to do a report about various lifes of folk in that period. I made a journal to look old and logged what the doctor had treated. One guy had horribly broken ribs after bring kicked by his field animal. Doctor hung a dried toad around his neck and was on his way! 🤣 Also ncluded classics like trepanning, bloodletting, burning demons out of your teeth. Last page was spattered in red paint to imply he got the plague and died, got an A+!

    • @MrsJHarrington
      @MrsJHarrington Год назад +6

      That is BRILLIANT, absolutely AMAZING!!!! 😊

    • @Somebeef19
      @Somebeef19 Год назад +1

      Bro pictures plz

  • @karkovice10
    @karkovice10 Год назад +18

    Eating cookies, ANY cookies, usually bring about happiness! 😁

  • @rheverend
    @rheverend Год назад +16

    Never realized how many medieval paintings depict ppl being crapped on

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas Год назад +47

    Patient: "Ugh I have such a horrible headache!"
    The Apothecary: "Here my dear, drink this arsenic."
    The Priest: "Stay in the church overnight beating the sin out of yourself with a rod."
    The actual surgeon: "GET THE BIG BRAIN DRILL!"

  • @TheLivirus
    @TheLivirus Год назад +10

    Their creativity is astonishing!

  • @cheylikespie
    @cheylikespie 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love the way you read old poems!!! I could listen to that for hours!

  • @hd-be7di
    @hd-be7di Год назад +40

    The good old days of early medicine... good times... for the doctors. The patients, not so much.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 Год назад +6

      In those days, some of the smarter people actually avoided doctors and took their chances as they came.

    • @tifapanties25
      @tifapanties25 Год назад +1

      Marion simms

  • @aanchaallllllll
    @aanchaallllllll Год назад +6

    0:38: 📚 During the Middle Ages, small remedy books were commercially handwritten and carried around by people, containing practical medicines and recognizable ingredients.
    2:17: 👁 Medieval eye remedies included using bile from a Bullock's liver and mixing it with various substances like leaks and Periwinkles.
    4:23: 🤔 The video discusses some bizarre medieval remedies for psychological problems and illnesses.
    6:29: 🤢 The video discusses various bizarre and disgusting remedies from the past.
    8:41: ! Medieval recipes provide a glimpse into the medical culture of the Middle Ages and the cruel practices used on animals.
    Recap by Tammy AI

  • @terriatca1
    @terriatca1 Год назад +7

    Max Miller of Tasting History made the cookies by St. Hildegarde, a heavy amount of spices in them.

  • @TheMercuryPanda
    @TheMercuryPanda Год назад +10

    Sometimes I wonder how humans survived the Middle Ages 😂

  • @BlackFlagHeathen
    @BlackFlagHeathen Месяц назад

    Owls are probably my favorite animal. That gout cure has me horrified. And don’t even get me started on the poor puppy. 😭😢

  • @toniremer1594
    @toniremer1594 Год назад +5

    When my younger sister and I were born, our parents didn’t have much money, so our mom applied old traditional home remedies to “cure” us from certain illnesses.
    One home remedy ( for colds and upper respiratory infections) that she used was taking our urine soaked cloth diaper, placing it on our crib rail, then turning on a fan which would be placed right by the diaper. The ammonia from the urine would open up our airways, so we could breathe.
    Next, she’d chop up an onion, mix it with honey inside a jar, let it sit for a few hours with a towel covering it, and separating the syrup from the onion and honey, and it acted like cough syrup.
    She’d place sliced apples, oranges, plums, or whatever fruit inside a freezer bag with a few drops of alcohol, then place the fruit in the freezer. This numbed the gums when a baby starts teething. One thing, do not walk away when the baby is sucking and chewing on the frozen piece of fruit.
    She’d use the original Listerine Mouthwash to cleanse cuts and scrapes by using a small piece of cloth that was dipped into the bottle.
    There are more home remedies that she used, but I just cannot recall the other remedies.

  • @gildedr0se
    @gildedr0se Год назад

    love your voice! your narration makes these videos even more interesting :)

  • @sherrina75
    @sherrina75 Год назад +1

    Another fantastic video :)

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 26 дней назад

    4:00 digging this background soundtrack

  • @peteacher52
    @peteacher52 Год назад +7

    Sister Wendy, in her popular videos on art appreciation, once said while analysing a mediaeval scene, "I sometimes think I'd like to be one of those mediaeval ladies with pointy hats and streamers flowing from them. But then I think no, I wouldn't; they didn't have dentists!"
    Enough said, ma'am!

  • @Bushidounohana
    @Bushidounohana Год назад +1

    Those of us with chronic, currently incurable illness have a taste of this kind of medicine … where our modern knowledge of the human body and its afflictions ends, there is a steep drop-off in voodoo and snake oil and superstition remain firmly intact. Luckily, we have advanced beyond blood-letting, various animal dungs, and puppy’s blood.

  • @ericgutierrez1274
    @ericgutierrez1274 Год назад +20

    I mean I think in some places they had painkillers, good ol opium

    • @JennySimon206
      @JennySimon206 Год назад +3

      They had it better. The synthetic opioids are toxic and don't work as well. Just as addicting. Actually harder to wean off.

  • @infinightsky
    @infinightsky Год назад +1

    Your uploads are the only “non professional” documentaries I can go to sleep to

  • @johnyurick8785
    @johnyurick8785 Год назад

    Gout is well treatable by concentrated cherry juice with celary…… 👍

  • @indepthliterature
    @indepthliterature Год назад +7

    Love the theme music at 4 minutes. Good stuff. Great informative video. I love the sense of humor you keep talking about such heavy topics

  • @-Thauma-
    @-Thauma- Год назад +82

    The medieval way of drawing animals was really sick.

    • @codygrimes6157
      @codygrimes6157 Год назад +8

      I find it quite hilarious. Must've been a genius to be able to entertain the masses centuries later XD

    • @-Thauma-
      @-Thauma- Год назад +1

      @@codygrimes6157 LoL yes

    • @krisfinley6706
      @krisfinley6706 Год назад +3

      I refuse to believe I'm wrong for wishing we had a variety of porpoise that looked like the "sea pigs" in the painting

  • @khukri_wielderxxx1962
    @khukri_wielderxxx1962 Год назад +32

    This video makes me appreciate Tylenol a lot more

    • @Whiteboykun
      @Whiteboykun Год назад

      You'll appreciate Tylenol a lot more if you mix it with alcohol
      (Hint: don't do this.)

  • @bretfisher7286
    @bretfisher7286 Год назад +1

    Fascinating in its grotesqueness. Bewildering. How did the people come by these weird recipes, I wonder?

  • @Stephan-bj3lh
    @Stephan-bj3lh 5 часов назад

    I dont see how any work was done they were all hammered most of the time!!!!.

  • @lizscutt7899
    @lizscutt7899 Год назад +1

    Brilliant no need for a Drs prescription for me any longer thank you 🎉

  • @erikreber3695
    @erikreber3695 3 месяца назад +1

    Here is my advice to anyone with a time machine visiting the medieval era... Bring antibiotics and don't let the church find them/out about them. 😅

  • @DarkJediMindTricks
    @DarkJediMindTricks Год назад +7

    Do one of gangs during the middle ages.

  • @billiebluesheepie2907
    @billiebluesheepie2907 Год назад +22

    No mention of a cure for a broken thumb - I have been given a plastic cover over my thumb and they put my arm in a sling - which wouldn’t have been a problem if I could walk, but I use my hands to move my wheelchair!!!
    It’s going to be a very long six weeks and I’m still on day one!

    • @DeAthWaGer
      @DeAthWaGer Год назад +3

      Work on coercion techniques, gaining sympathy from friends or dates to push you around.
      Do whatever it takes to not sleep on it. I came close to handcuffing my hand to the bed when I dislocated my fingers (same finger, other hand, 1 year apart).

    • @Donathon-qx8kq
      @Donathon-qx8kq Год назад

      I'm in a wheelchair too.., you've got to protect your hands and shoulders.... when I read the post your half through.... good luck....Carpe Viva

  • @everybodygotthat
    @everybodygotthat Год назад

    Thanks very much. Cheers.

  • @SirPoopallot
    @SirPoopallot Год назад +3

    Still amazing how the Romans were so much advanced on public hygiene and other fields. Still not very clear how humanity went totally ignorant after that and for many centuries.

  • @marcocammozzo7553
    @marcocammozzo7553 Год назад +2

    Hearing about feces and animal organs mixtures while eating yoghurt. Yes.

  • @Mechimmortal
    @Mechimmortal Год назад +2

    Trying to treat gout is like trying to catch Mewthree in Pokémon Red with all those shitty parts lol.

  • @angelicart.6
    @angelicart.6 Год назад +5

    I really love your channel! 💜

  • @rebeccakinney619
    @rebeccakinney619 Год назад +2

    I don’t understand the time in medieval art where everyone had eyes very close together. Seems like earlier art possibly prior to 1099

  • @cyn5962
    @cyn5962 Год назад +2

    Thank God for modern medicine!

  • @InnerPeaceFounder
    @InnerPeaceFounder Год назад +1

    So me with my depression would just die 👍🏽

  • @keiththorpe9571
    @keiththorpe9571 Год назад +3

    If they wanted to stop their gout, why didn't they just pluck off those little monsters that were gnawing on their feet with their sharp little fangs and claws? Those things look like some mean little bastards...

  • @hollybyrd6186
    @hollybyrd6186 Год назад +1

    I enjoyed modern medicine this last summer. My tonsils tried to kill me with abscesses.

  • @edac627
    @edac627 Год назад +1

    KEEP DROPPIN BRO! I know you heard the hate. Fuxk all that MEM IS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @whoareyoulookingfor
    @whoareyoulookingfor Год назад

    Please, what is the source for the dog in costume at "Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails" intro at 6:40? Thank you!

  • @PeggyPegg
    @PeggyPegg 8 месяцев назад

    I would never ever ever complain about anything 😂😂

  • @alexwatson5507
    @alexwatson5507 Год назад

    Jocks itch would have been the death of me! That and my heartburn! I’d have self helped the off button. 😂

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Год назад

    Oh good something finally came on

  • @Steven-dt5nu
    @Steven-dt5nu 10 месяцев назад

    Man.... We had to start somewhere

  • @dakota3049
    @dakota3049 Год назад

    What’s the name of the song in the beginning of your videos

  • @kevinlutz5994
    @kevinlutz5994 Год назад +1

    Chicken sh*t rubbed into the bulbous of black death.💀☠💀

  • @seanhuds7351
    @seanhuds7351 Год назад +1

    Who would have thought that meat was the cure to gout...

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 Год назад +1

      Oh yes, lots of fatty meats and alcohol 😂

    • @seanhuds7351
      @seanhuds7351 Год назад +1

      @@laurieb3703 Remember: No exercise! and plenty of cigarettes!

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 Год назад +1

      @@seanhuds7351 absolutely! Bed rest only

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Год назад +1

    Seems like a lot of time it was let's through anything to the wall and see what sticks.

  • @morpheus5934
    @morpheus5934 Год назад +1

    Dung and honey. Sounds like a punk band

  • @mirrorblue100
    @mirrorblue100 Год назад +1

    Medieval medicine had a good sense of humor..

  • @lancevance1612
    @lancevance1612 Год назад

    Does anyone know the song in the intro?

  • @mycount64
    @mycount64 Год назад

    How would you try this vs well anything else.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 Год назад

    ….The wanton cruelty of the age toward the weak & defenseless….

  • @olivere5497
    @olivere5497 Год назад +1

    Daffodils

  • @peterlawson777
    @peterlawson777 Год назад

    Makes you wonder what the future will think of OUR medications and our current clinical/surgical/psychiatric practises………

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 Год назад +1

    These medicines sound horrifying.

  • @deadhorse1391
    @deadhorse1391 Год назад

    Wonder if these treatments were tested on animals?

  • @dogbark8388
    @dogbark8388 Год назад +1

    It's cure or kill
    You want some help or not ? Got dough ? We got cures

  • @londonmason6129
    @londonmason6129 Год назад +3

    “Surviving the Middle Ages as an ill person”
    You don’t

  • @michaelhayes4537
    @michaelhayes4537 Год назад +1

    7:03.
    Doc: "So been bite by a snake, eh. Here, drink this."
    Patient: "I feel much better. Although the water was a bit dirty and slimy."
    Doc: " Oh, yes, that. It prey be the slug."

  • @jaimedavis439
    @jaimedavis439 11 месяцев назад

    Worse than these "recipes" themselves is the thought of how one might develope such things. How many dogs died before an unweened pup stomach was decided upon? & Why? In the first place why?

  • @johnyurick8785
    @johnyurick8785 Год назад

    Obviously they had no clue 😂

  • @CulturexHardcore
    @CulturexHardcore Год назад +1

    Medieval folks wouldn't have so much mental problems if they did'nt spent that much time on their bloody iPhone -265 Pro Max

  • @MrCombatmedic00
    @MrCombatmedic00 Год назад

    Why does that dog painting have a human face?!

  • @theimpossiblemary
    @theimpossiblemary Год назад +10

    Well, I think I would prefer to die instead of submitting myself to some of this "remedies" 😅 And, as a dog owner, I was disgusted by the last recipe... thank god Medicine evolved!

    • @buddharuci2701
      @buddharuci2701 Год назад

      There’s truth to it, though. For example, cleaning the poop and pee from my cats litter box cures my diseased inclination toward pride, a serious illness *and* a deadly sin!

    • @DeAthWaGer
      @DeAthWaGer Год назад +1

      And be at risk of toxoplasmosis? Oh man so much win! 💩🙀

    • @buddharuci2701
      @buddharuci2701 Год назад

      @@DeAthWaGer oh, my!

  • @onemorechris
    @onemorechris Год назад +8

    over what period of time did it take people to figure out these things didn’t work? i guess people still do things today that have no effect so, maybe we never learn?!

    • @hornytarot
      @hornytarot Год назад +2

      They would have forgotten the illnesses or been distracted by another one before they are off to the doctors again!

  • @worldtipper
    @worldtipper Год назад

    Did any of this really work? 🤔

  • @buddharuci2701
    @buddharuci2701 Год назад

    I am delighted with your films, full of fun information. You caution us that this one is for “entertainment”. Do you mean, Don’t try this at home? Or, the info is not all true? Which leads me to suggest that “end notes” giving us your sources would be really welcome.

  • @alisonbrowning9620
    @alisonbrowning9620 Год назад

    like Chinese medicine then

  • @Sandesh-sh7ez
    @Sandesh-sh7ez Год назад +1

    In That Contemporary Time India Was Way way Ahead Of The World In Terms Of Medical Knowledge. If You Still Try To Find And Apply Any Cure From 'Ayurveda' you will surely Get Benefits.❤❤❤

  • @soumyajitsingha9614
    @soumyajitsingha9614 Год назад

    It angers me how the stupid Metatron always makes up made up twisted logical sounding statements to attack everything

  • @cristinesalisbury63
    @cristinesalisbury63 Год назад

    Man may DIE!!!!!!!

  • @jubi400
    @jubi400 Год назад

    I'll pass, thanks, lol

  • @beckyboo5097
    @beckyboo5097 Год назад +5

    Yeah these "cures" are a no from me lol. I would of happily died back then.

    • @u-neekusername4430
      @u-neekusername4430 Год назад +1

      Well, I mean, it'd still be either way, wouldn't it? LOL So yeah, I'd much rather die NOT covered in animal faeces or rotting organs (or both).

  • @coxmosia1
    @coxmosia1 Год назад

    And these people reproduced?? The ancients were a lot smarter than this. Yikes!

    • @nodruj8681
      @nodruj8681 Год назад

      This man is known as being a far left political figure who pushes misinformation

  • @Gigismom59
    @Gigismom59 Год назад

    Olde sores… ewww

  • @g0679
    @g0679 Год назад +1

    I must tell you - it tasted awful.

  • @ericstoverink6579
    @ericstoverink6579 Год назад +2

    Is your channel intended as a joke? Because the sheer amount of blatant misinformation coming from it tells me that this channel is intended as a joke.

  • @jonhall2274
    @jonhall2274 Год назад +4

    Kinda amazes me how infections & illness wasn't waaaay more common considering the amount of "cures/remedies" used literally *POOP* to be drank/ate/applied with. Basically if you made it to an adult I'd imagine their immune system absolutely out classes a modern persons of today, LOL!😂

    • @tifapanties25
      @tifapanties25 Год назад

      Alot of historians white wash European history to make jt look and seem better. Just like hannibal being white. When in reality he was white

  • @ksb7938
    @ksb7938 Год назад +1

    You should stop making content thats purposefully spreading misinformation. Do some research

  • @Stephan-bj3lh
    @Stephan-bj3lh 5 часов назад

    I dont see how any work was done they were all hammered most of the time!!!!.