Matchgirls and the Incredibly Gruesome Story of Phossy Jaw
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2024
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“Full recovery”
Usually means you’re not missing half your face, no?
TIL men through out history were evil...to everyone , especially women.
What is aqueduct ventilation? I have never heard of that before. 😉
We've outgrown unions. All they do is ruin production,and steal your money.
😂 I wish you could do a “today I found out some random person’s birth parents”.
My adoption is pretty funny (…or as my 11 year old daughter calls it “millennial funny”…🙄🙄) I was sent from South Korea on an American soldiers lap, birth parents wanted me to go to a catholic family and that didn’t happen, married a non practicing catholic guy, who happens to be an American soldier…..who happened to….
It really is a long story. Basically, don’t know my birth parents. My daughter wants to know. I heard the adoption agency closed down, the city I was born in is Busan not Pusan….its a hot mess… maybe a challenge for one of your wonderful writers ❤
This reminds me of the fate of women who painted radium watches and men who mined these radioactive materials.
Radium Girls
We have a video on that featuring baby Simon :-) ruclips.net/video/7875DVDdmnE/видео.htmlsi=JA4OHoX7NlN6uEld
14:04 you gotta watch the video before commenting
@@thomasdemaio53 That was at the very end of the video. The men who mined the minerals weren't mentioned.
I remember that article. Appalling!
When people online wax lyrical about the Victorian Era, they tend to ignore the average persons working life
“I was born in the wrong era. I think I could really thrive with a spongy jaw and almost no rights.”
I love history and historical clothing etc, but I find people who play Victorian lady and make it their whole personality (like Bernadette Banner) really gross. The past was nothing to romanticize. No antibiotics, the Irish Famine, slavery, kids dying in droves from disease, women still had virtually no rights, and God help you if you were poor.
For real!
Saying "wax lyrical" is one of the gayest phrases ever used
@quitcallinmebill1699 then you may be insecure about your heterosexuality.
I think saying Cornelia had a full recovery maybe the most optimist statements in the history of RUclips.
I had a tooth pulled under anesthetic and I was in pain. I can't imagine getting your jaw cut with no anesthesia. She probably had some serious PTSD.
What? She still had the other half of her lower jaw, look on the bright side.
@@wile-e-coyote8371 Don't you mean turn the other cheek?
For real, if this was a chubbyemu video she would have made "a recovery", which denotes she had lasting health effects or impact of some kind on her body
A "full recovery" with a quarter of her face missing and the inability to eat anything but liquids.
You know it’s bad when it has a warning label, from the 1800s
Demon cores would have been witch warders .😅
This is horrifying! I had heard of Mad Hatter Syndrome and the Radium Girls. I never heard of Match Girl Leprosy. These poor girls.
Worker protections were, and still are, often paid for in blood. We, especially here in the US, would always do well to remember that.
True, and now we just export the misery where American consumers don't see it.
@@Lukkaboc accurate
True
Some companies today can't be troubled even make their low cost abysmal work conditions overseas a thing anymore as more and more seem to be considering becoming fully automated. From a business standpoint its a shrewd course of action, but from a societal standpoint denying a good chunk of the population work opportunities (ideally safe ones but just in general as well) that don't require a college education is very dangerous.
Delusional 😂😂😂😂 Like seriously, you've clearly never even left the US! 😂 Just more leftist dribble about how "awful" things are when you're beyond privileged to live where you do, and free to participate or not participate in society. Get a friggin grip.
Phosphorus burns are awful. The burn itself isnt the worst part, the phosphorus soaks in and liquifies the flesh underneath. The fake scab comes off then a deep wound that slowly heals is left.😮
and for some reason, we still deploy white phosphorus attacks on civilian populations! WOWIE ZOWIE, what a nightmare.
Not scab, but eschar!
eschar
in American English
(ˈɛsˌkɑr; ˌɛskər)
NOUN
a dry scab that forms as a result of a burn or of corrosive action
@@user-yp6kn2uw4kwith the definition you've posted, an eschar is a scab
@@chungleandthebims167 yes an eschar is a specific type of scab
I have lost track of how many channels Simon has and am now convinced that he is some kind of Lovecraftian content generating entity who never sleeps 😨
welcome to the Whistlerverse, I hope your fall into the rabbit hole didn't hurt.
SAME! Except you said it much better than I could. I’m convinced there are many more Simons; he figured out how to clone himself.
Go Diamond Match Company! It's so rare that you hear stories of big businesses doing the right thing instead of the thing that makes them the most money.
Right? It’s so hard to believe when we’re in a time when it’s common for companies to let us die if it’ll make them a few bucks. Diamond, which is the brand we buy for the fireplace, just earned my respect. They would have made an absolute fortune had they been able to advertise being the one company to have safety matches, but they preferred actual safety.
I have several boxes of diamond matches, and am happy to learn more of their history.
I'm so glad companies aren't allowed to charge employees for these things, and that we have work protections. A reminder to people who were trained to hate unions: The horrors in this piece of history are what the opposite of unions looked like.
😂 "companies aren't allowed to charge employees for these things" you obviously have never been a teacher, especially preschool teacher! We definitely have to stock our own classrooms, pay for materials we use in lessons, and often have to ensure the kids have what they need, be it a pencil, a lunch (which we have bought ourselves), or basic hygiene products (a friend of mine has a whole closet filled with deodorant, pads, toothpaste, extra snacks ect). It's true our jaws aren't typically being rotted out by white phosphorus, were just being assaulted, harassed and gunned down in our classrooms, but hey at least we're not being paid terribly like those girls.... Oh wait.
@@millersam07 You need a union. A good one. If yours isn't good enough, make some waves and get on their case. This is EXACTLY the shit unions were formed for. Every employment right you have, was fought for by unions. Individually, we're helpless wage-slaves. But together, employers need us, so if we stick together that's our power to use to defend ourselves.
Worker's rights are being stolen all over the place. The rich absolutely love this. Did you see Amazon's anti-union videos, they're hilarious! It's only getting worse, and it'll only get better if workers fight back. And as individuals, they're pretty powerless.
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Your choice to go in to that job knowing the pay is rubbish.. do better and stop blaming others.
@@danielread8549 any job that can will pay you rubbish. That's just economy101
This story always gets to me. It's remarkably disgusting how women and people in general were just left to rot by Industry, LITERAL ROT! I just can't even. I worry that with the direction things are going we aren't far from falling back into those days.
Cry more.... Are you forced into a mine? No
So shut up
Corporate greed. While we subsidize these large corporations, 75^% of wage theft is wage theft.
We never really left those days. It still plays out on industrial factory floors worldwide.
Believing it doesn’t happen to women, men, & children around the world in every country in existence to this very day & tomorrow should it come is delusional.
This is why the right to expression and also gather to protest is so important. Use your vote people.
In high school, my theatre company did a play called These Shining Lives. It was about the court proceedings and families of the radium girls. It used the clock faces they painted as a metaphor for how little time they had left. Very poignant stuff.
Sounds almost identical to Radium Jaw.
Phossy jaw was the mother of Radium jaw.
This exactly my thinking.
Match girls striking and sparking a movement! Simon, you're priceless! 11/ 10 for the puns and content.
It's disgusting how bad things were back then for the average worker. And these days most companies are trying to pave the way for these horrible conditions to come back. All for the sake of saving money.
The customers like us are also affected by them using cheaper ingredients in our food products. I also heard that america also allow some ingredients that are banned in other countries
We've allowed ourselves to forget why we made these laws in the first place
@@nobodyfamousX YES! Libertarians are all for starting over from scratch, 'let the market decide', they say. The Market is We The People, and we've already decided. We want worker protections.
@@kelliepatrick519libertarians "No! Not like that!"
@@KinDiedYesterdayand other countries allow substances banned in the U.S. Don't spread rumor/speak on what you don't know, or villify one in favor of the other. Everywhere has their [major] issues.
I would love to see a documentary about the use of trichloroethylene in the leather tanning industry in the United States. I used to work in a factory where it was used regularly and that stuff is super dangerous... Degenerative nervous system disorders, brain cancer, etc, etc. it's a nightmare. Oh and it burns the skin on contact.
One of my first questions I ask patients is "What occupation have you done for most of your life." There in lies so many answers to lung & liver ailments, cancers, MSK strains, nerve issues, stress/autoimmune disorders, etc.
I used to work in a circuit board factory which used trichloreothane to clean the flux off after soldering, nasty sh*t! Glad I didnt make it a career.
Trichloroethylene is used by the gallon for cleaning various aircraft parts. It's pretty nasty stuff but even worse is the Tetraethyllead in aviation gasoline. It absorbs through the skin and your lead levels can skyrocket fairly easily if you come into contact with too much of the stuff. The leaded aviation fuel is supposed to be phased out for an unleaded fuel as was done for cars many years ago, but as with everything in aviation it's an extremely slow process and we probably won't see much of the new fuel until 2030.
Tell me more. I had no idea.
Laminate kitchen rolls. In Australia loads of people have died from the type of work tops made there
"And this, children, is why you should support workers unions, and health and safety regulations!"
YES!
YES!!!!
Preach!
💯👍
Yes I like how the unions stood by the workers in the covid bullshit, NOT
These people would be beside themselves to learn that eventually books of matches would become so cheap you could walk into almost any retail establishment and get a pack of 20 for free.
My great great aunt worked in those factories, she was lucky but the stories have came down in the family about phossy jaw.
While I have seen many videos on the Radium Girls, this is my first learning about the problems with phosphorus.
Thank you, Simon for your usual high quality edutainment!
"...persons whose lungs are delicate..."
*EVERYONE. ALL LUNGS ARE DELICATE.*
Ahhhhhhhhh... Thats relative. So was the warning... Nuance and context used to be foregone conclusions. Now they're foreign concepts...
Heh, I know it wasn't meant to be, but "Matchgirl Strike" is a great pun...
Oh damn.
And this kind of treatment of workers is how many of the largest companies around today built the empires they are today.
Cry more.... How many people do you employ?
None
They poison the water and air of nonemployees as well.
@@stephenbarabas6286lol you're disappointing.
@@stephenbarabas6286How's that boot taste?
@@clairehickey9368 pretty sure he fancies himself to be a temporarily embarrassed boot wearer
It’s insane that the working conditions were so bad that the idea of a PAID holiday was beyond comprehension. Nowadays corporations don’t want to stop production or give even unpaid holidays for any reason whatsoever
The more I learn about Finland the more I realize the western world was sleeping on a pretty awesome group of people.
The Finns keep to themselves....
Have you lived with one. I have, not that great!
@@cashkitty3472 Just 'cause you know *one* guy, doesn't mean as a society they don't have it together. Though they do have a fair bit of mental health struggles, not seeing the sun most of the year will do that to you.
Good. Because western world is pure cancer
Something that ought to be taught in schools. Too much regulation of corporations? See what they do without it
The complaint is over regulation that has no testing to support it. Such regulation driving up costs needlessly. People aren't complaining about regulation but rather regulation put in place to only generate money in fees or licensing to the government without proof of reason. You see this all over especially in EPA in which many of their pushes actually hurt the environment.
"Using a saw and no anesthetic"
As was the style at the time.
All I can say is "ouch." I can only imagine the pain they were in.
As well as being unable to eat.
Ouch is for boo boos and skinned knees. It's more like "screams" is fitting for this.
I hate pain and I like eating. This would suck if I had it.
It sucks that it always takes some kind of massive, wide spread tragedy to get basic changes like this.
AI coming up next.
I thought this video was going to be about bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw. Patients who take bisphosphonates for osteoporosis can develop necrosis of the jaw after oral surgery and one of the early medications that was regularly used is called Fosamax. The disease symptoms and the treatment are pretty similar today. You resect the necrotic bone and have the patient heal with hyperbaric oxygen sessions
@@JonPaul the risk is much lower for people who haven't had IV bisphosphonate treatment in the past year. I don't know the risk rates for oral medication years after usage. I usually refer my patients just to avoid the risk, but it's low outside of IV treatment
The other option for reversing osteoporous is an injectible medication called Forteo which is a genetically engineered para hormone
At first I mistook this as the radiation damage the Radium girls suffered in the 1920's. I never knew matchmakers faced such a comparable danger.
Strikes are important and so are unions. I'm a teacher and it's illegal to strike, but it seems like there are many career paths (education, health care...) that will exploit workers no matter what. That's why we need out unions and the ability to strike for better conditions. I'm glad the Strike of 1888 was able to change conditions in factories and that things overall ended up changing as a whole for people.
Simon runs so many channels but somehow still has entertaining videos, I have no idea how he does it
Achieved by the power of the blood, sweat and tears of the basement writer possé 😉
All jokes aside though, from what he and the writers have mentioned, he invests a genuine amount of time hiring good writers for his work and pays them a reasonable wage for the work they do, and I think that plays a huge part in the quality of his videos. The fact that he actively talks about his writers and is fine with them including personal anecdotes and details in most of the scripts definitely shows the level of care he has for his writers and letting their writing shine.
He has made the appropriate sacrifices to nib-shuggaluth, the beast of wings and eyes that haunts the netherspaces between stars and darkness.
This is a joke right?
✨✨Writers ✨✨
A great team. Dude doesn’t do it alone.
I did not know about this! Oh my, those radium girls I was aware. My late grandad had this pocket watch with radium paint. It aint glowing anymore but it is still as radioactive as it was when new in 1920-1930 when he bought it.
"it ain't glowing"
@@basedsketch4133 "it isn't glowing"... if we're picking at grammer
I didnt expect to hear about the philosopher’s stone in a video about phossy jaw
Neither did I.
Can’t help but think that the industrialization of the world produced IMMEDIATE monstrosities that we slowly tried to deal with.
But now we are trying to come to grasps with the long term illnesses that probably have the same, exact origin.
this reminds me of what happened with the radium girls years later. while I'm no fan of government oversight, occupational safety for workplace hazards does have its place, like precautions in handling chemicals and radioactive materials.
Let's not forget Fosse Jaw. symptoms include singing, dancing, and jazz hands.
And let's not forget Fozzie Bear: Wocka wocka!
Jazzhands lol
I was looking for this comment. 😅
I snorted 😂
😂
Be aware:
It is possible to get phossy jaw in modern times!
My dad has it from one of his medications.
uhhh. what medication 😭
@alexchan6303 I think it was Fosamax. I just looked it up and it indicates loosening of teeth. He was on it for years.
Medications have legit utility (in thiscase for treating osteoporosis), by side effects have been be taken into account, especially for long-term use.
Imagine, in a time where workers rights were a joke, that your boss would pay your wage and refuse to let you work so you didn’t scare the next person. Incredible.
Hmm, I know of doorstaff at clubs and bars who have been punched in the face in the line of duty and they're not allowed back to work as it isn't a good look for the venue. But they don't get paid and as someone else fills their position for a while, they'll often lose their job.
Fun fact: in the Netherlands we still call them lucifers.
Cool!
The young women radium dial painters of the early 1900's began to show similar symptoms when the began to succumb to succumb to radiation poisoning. Later, as their symptoms became myriad, some medical MEN grudgingly began to realize that the problem was not phosdy jaw. Because radiation poisoning was not listed as an industrial disease, the women were in for the fight of their (shortened) lives. Most died without remuneration. Of course, the aggrieved employee is typically the lower in such legal frays.
They didn’t just blame phossy jaw… they claimed the girls & women were infected with syphilis, that “loose morals” were the cause of their mysterious illnesses
And that’s why we always need unions. Seriously, what the hell was up with fining workers, especially for being dirty? Of course they’d be dirty in a factory.
Damn, I remember when the radium girls vid originally aired! It's been a good 6 years, thanks for all the content Simon and Co. 🍻
When I was a small kid, I used to love the smell of a freshly lit match, and the first two or three seconds after a cigarette was lit. Possibly not the best thing to grow up around, but it definitely brings back memories of being around my grandpa and my uncles
Thanks for this. I only had a brief understanding of this as it was mentioned as an aside while studying the Radium Girls in Radiation Safety in college. It never ceases to amaze me how little employers can care about their employees and their safety in the pursuit of profit.
But if they make no profit, they can't employ anybody.
So fugged up how many people got hurt because of stuff like this. They knew it was dangerous by that time, they just wanted their money as usual over safety
Filed under "Info I'll never need to know, but am obsessively fascinated about and drawn to learn anyway." 😂
Well-done! 💯
I thought this was going to be about the story The Little Match Girl tbh... But I think when I looked into it awhile ago it wasn't based on any true story so I don't know if it was a legitimate job
Knowing the history of regulations and laws gives super relevant context to similar ongoing struggles
Oh god, this is Radium Girls situation before the Radium Girls.
When the first radium girls were examined by doctors, the doctors thought they had cases of "phossy jaw" before the radium connection was discovered.
@5:35 (for British audiences) The guy in the top hand, without the beard would look like Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Rt Hon Member for the 19th century.......If the current day Tories thought they could get away with it, this is how they'd treat workers......
Rees Mogg is an absolute turd.
Don't be daft. All paerties would do it if they could
I like the fact that Simon's writer named the previous videos, rather then the standard Blaze line "I think I did a video on that" then off on a tangent about he can't keep track of all the videos he's made, while editer does the work and puts name on screen.
I wonder it he ever has a little bump before doing these ones sharp and snappy
Yes he does
I came by to be envious of your very admirable beard, Simon Whistler-- but stayed for the story. A good weekend to you and all.
Kind of gay to like a guys anything.... Does your family know you like guys beards? Fuckin weirdo
Very well done. Thanks Simon
Such a sad series of events. Going to check out the Radium episode next
Come on everybody saying that the video was intriguing enough for you to watch. Let’s not be lousy by not acknowledging the silhouette thumbs up make them solid🎉
You need a life
Phosphorus... Radium... It's almost as if things that go on glowing seemingly indefinitely without being powered, recharged or refueled by some external source, are seriously bad news for the human body.
Simon, what is aqueduct ventilation, is that for maintaining Constantine airflow?
I think the script was supposed to say adequate but who knows? *Shoulder shrugs*
Russia placed a heavy tax on white phosphorus matches in 1892 which was doubled in 1905. By 1906 the production of white phosphorus matches had been reduced to one match in every fifty. India and Japan banned the use of white phosphorus in 1919 after the United States, followed by China's ban on white phosphorus usage in match production in 1925.
8:53 - Fact Boi says "aqueduct" instead of "adequate." So much of his proper British pronunciation!
I had to look up aqueduct ventilation to see if it was a real thing. He said it so certainly.
A brain blaze brain fart if ever there was one
You haven't heard BBC radio recently, word mangler central.
Yeah I was wondering.
I have a feeling it was originally spelled wrongly and autocorrect substituted the wrong word.
Simon Whistler, you are a legend.. i LOVE your work! .. can't get enough of these stories !!
Awesome Simon, love ur voice and channel
"Aqueduct ventilation"? Yeah I imagine an enormous bridge carrying water would produce a bit of a draught. Bloody hell Simon, don't you do re-takes? You and Calculon.
To someone who didn't know how this was happening, it'd be an absolute horror to have one of your patients that seemed to just have a bad case of toothache come back with her jaw disintegrating, and when you then open it up to see what the hell's going on... the bone's fucking glowing in the dark like it's possessed by Satan himself.
Those poor people
This video is a treasure🎉 Thank you
Extremely interesting! thanks!
It seems a pretty radical way to get one's hands on some Laudanum.
Omg this adds a whole new layer to the story of the little match girl…
I was obsessed with vampires as a kid. Twilight was so bad, I was embarrassed for liking vampires. Thank god I got out when I did 😅
How did man kind survive the Victorian times I don’t know
It was a numbers game. Just keep throwing bodies on the bodies that fall. Even young children put to work, never to grow old.
Let’s not make the same mistakes again!
These women remind me of the radium girls from the watch factories where they would lick their brushes to make a sharp point to brush radium onto the minute hands and second hands for the watches, their jaws would fall off😢.
How about you watch the video before commenting. He mentions them.
@@Chris-hx3om how about you worry about when you comment on something.🤔🤬
@@OathTaker3 Did I touch a nerve?
@@Chris-hx3om pipe down
@@sn1000k Who asked you?
As always. Excellet video and very educational.
I love how so many inventions were "accidental." He only meant to clean his stir stick and discovered something that changed millions of lives- for better or worse.
Fascinating…thanks!
Very interesting video, good job
Being a matchmaker means something totally different now...
A friend I worked with was diagnosed with thyroid cancer about 20 years ago. As he was awaiting thyroidectomy, he mentioned that his doctor asked him what happened to his tonsils. He didn't know, but I pointed out that treatment protocols on the Navajo reservation, where he grew up, lagged behind mainstream protocols. X-ray treatment of tonsillitis would have been standard long after it was discontinued in the White Man's world.
PHOSSY EATERS… I’ll never hear that phrase the same again… PHOSSY Bear would be so creepy
Very interesting. Never heard of this. The things I don’t know astound me😄
Thank you!
Thankfully, big business today is more conscientious and cares about its employees. OK, bad example.
😂
Watching this and all of a sudden "Hey, that's my matchbox!'', I haven't seen another one in all the years I've had my matchbox.
'But Percy.........it's GREEN!' 😉
Goddamn, I love seeing Simon drop a new video. Thankya, kind sir.
"I have turned piss into spontaneous fire... eh, I'm bored now." Real Gigachad energy
This was a depressingly fascinating history lesson
Funny story... I live in the states, I moved from Chicago to little rock Arkansas (which is moving from a city to a rural farm land) and ended o living about 2 blocks away from a military facility that stored white phosphorus in underground bunkers that were built prey ww2... The facility sits next to a river - far eventually connected to the gulf of Mexico - and a chicken processing plant that has their products in literally every single grocery store in this country I know I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist but that just sounds wrong... needless to say I moved
Wow. This was a very educational video, something good to be used by us homeschool moms. We take so much for granted, today.
It is worth mentioning that people who suffer from kidney failure risk the same bone deterioration throughout their body if they don't watch their phosphorus. Dark sodas (colas, Dr. Pepper, and the like) often have phosphates added to produce the tang, and those are remarkably bad because of the amount people tend to consume.
Certainly puts into perspective as to why on rare occassions a box of matches spontaneously combust without warning 😮
Thank you for mentioning the role played by the Sally Army in the narrative 😊
Very interesting!
Gives a sad new twist to the already sad story of the little match stick girl 💔
Hearing this reminds me of the people in the Congo who are expected/forced to mine without protective equipment. Greedy entities will never learn from history to protect the people responsible for their wealth. Deplorable.
Am i the only one that caught "aqueduct" ventilation, @ 8:55 ?
Made a full recovery? No, she most certainly likely didn’t. When it got to the point where the girls had symptoms like that it was inevitable that they were going to eventually die.
Thank God for the labor movement! Thank God for unions! The owners class will never give their workers anything even at risk of death. Organizing and action has to be undertaken to get the reforms for workers.
Why unions are important
Renaissance Era 🤝 Victorian Era
Being absolute sh*t times to live in if you weren't rich or powerful
In 1906, Finland was an autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire and in that year, was the first European state to offer universal suffrage. After full independence in 1917 this continued. In fact, quite a few women were elected to the parliament in 1907. It's no wonder they were concerned about these kinds of injustices to workers.