Incredible FLU REMEDIES from 1959 | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

Комментарии • 325

  • @alfiestoppani
    @alfiestoppani 2 года назад +147

    I love how that guy says "And in three days, I'll be cured". I guess that's why people believe so many things cure them. Everything seems to work because you eventually get better regardless.

    • @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
      @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 2 года назад

      Just think they are way more intelligent answers than trump and his fanatics! Ivermectin and malaria tablets! 🤦‍♂🤣

    • @hideouslyugly
      @hideouslyugly 2 года назад +5

      I thought the same, do away with the sweaty sock, and you'll still be cured in three days!

    • @Geletin911
      @Geletin911 7 месяцев назад

      but yet, take a vaccine, have a reaction and then the govt covers it up ;)

  • @martina5296
    @martina5296 2 года назад +66

    I learned alot.
    The flu HATES whiskey and sweat. And sometimes socks.

  • @paulhease1007
    @paulhease1007 2 года назад +56

    I love Alan Whicker. Such a class act. Never condescending

  • @russo1
    @russo1 2 года назад +211

    a lot of the people featured in this clip were born in the 1800s

    • @Ltforlife22
      @Ltforlife22 2 года назад +15

      1880’s or 1890’s

    • @Traveller69
      @Traveller69 2 года назад +22

      Probably in their 30s to be fair 😂

    • @alih1000
      @alih1000 2 года назад +2

      So?

    • @chchwoman9960
      @chchwoman9960 2 года назад +5

      Yes, I miss those people

    • @jjaime331
      @jjaime331 2 года назад +5

      Probably they were born in 1880-1889 I'll be like those people in 2059.

  • @vespelian
    @vespelian 2 года назад +89

    The older ones would have remembered the flu of 1918.

    • @Candice77750
      @Candice77750 2 года назад +5

      Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918

    • @mickeypearce244
      @mickeypearce244 2 года назад

      @@Candice77750 true and its making those that wear them ill now. Never learn

    • @eedobee
      @eedobee 2 года назад +7

      @@Candice77750 yeah, as a consequence of cytokine response. Secondary infection is considered a complication of the initial pathology. Otherwise you might say the true cause of death was lack of oxygen.

    • @Nefariously_ignorant
      @Nefariously_ignorant 2 года назад

      @@mickeypearce244 You spread propoganda but don't have the balls to say what it is people are wearing that causes illness. Is that because what you believe is embarrassing?

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 2 года назад +2

      @@mickeypearce244 wear what?

  • @adamtoms761
    @adamtoms761 2 года назад +18

    Not sure about the science behind that gent’s whiskey theory but I’m willing to give it a jolly good go!

    • @sambda
      @sambda Год назад

      That's why so many of these remedies include alcohol. You feel better, obviously, but there is no curative value in it.

  • @fidelisfaber4961
    @fidelisfaber4961 2 года назад +21

    My granny always had a goose grease plaster fitted when she had a chest infection as a child. She said the crackling of the brown paper could be quite noisy, and it tended to slide around as it was tied on with string. The goose grease and paper had an insulating and warming effect under your school clothes, and the warmth helped loosen catarrh. So not such a dumb idea after all.

  • @user-uw5ng5yt6r
    @user-uw5ng5yt6r 2 года назад +20

    People were tougher back in those days,
    That last guy died 15 minutes later after this interview from terminal cancer he didn't even know he had. He had just finished a 32 hour shift on a building site and was about to go to the pub for a standard 72 hour drinking session.

    • @Schudulaba
      @Schudulaba 2 года назад +2

      How do you know that about that last guy?

    • @user-uw5ng5yt6r
      @user-uw5ng5yt6r 2 года назад

      @@Schudulaba He shagged my granny.
      *edit*
      3 years after he died. That's how to tough people used to be.

    • @samnicholson5051
      @samnicholson5051 2 года назад +7

      One of the women here - I couldn't tell you which - did the interview with a broken spine. She had just fallen down her stairs about an hour before, and chose to hold off going to the hospital when she heard the TV people were coming around.

    • @MattTweeks
      @MattTweeks 2 года назад +2

      Its nothing compared to the interviewer, he went on from interviewing civilians to hosting the first ever Olympics. National relic!

    • @mid-walesrover681
      @mid-walesrover681 8 месяцев назад

      Yes they were tougher, more resourceful and could turn their hand to anything. No snowflakes.

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt 2 года назад +19

    Mustard and lard. **makes mental note**. Outstanding.

    • @romulus_
      @romulus_ 2 года назад +3

      bit of lettuce, pickled onions and you've got a nice sandwich.

  • @faithlesshound5621
    @faithlesshound5621 2 года назад +20

    The brown paper that "old wives" used in the 18th and 19th centuries was much thicker and coarser than what we have now, and more suitable for soaking up an ointment such as goose fat to apply to the skin. Mustard was used externally as a "counter-irritant" when the part underneath was inflamed inside.
    The other way that cartoons used to show it used was to sit at home with your feet soaking in a basin or "mustard bath."
    A lot of pre-modern medicine aimed to do something dramatic and visible to the body: to make you sweat, vomit, bleed, have diarrhoea, etc. Part of the appeal of homoeopathy was that their super-dilute medicines did NOT do any of that.

    • @eluna34
      @eluna34 2 месяца назад

      in the USSR mustard plasters were extremely popular and I think these home made plasters mimic what we had around the same time period back in the day.

  • @dev4911
    @dev4911 2 года назад +7

    Good old home remedies from our grandparents😊😊

  • @succulent951
    @succulent951 2 года назад +28

    'you've got flu now? In that case I won't keep you another minute' 😂

  • @sillygoosegoose
    @sillygoosegoose 2 года назад +5

    my stepmum (born 1963) still insists on making a 'hot toddy' (hot water, lemon, honey and whiskey) when you're sick. i personally hate the taste but it does feel like it burns everything up and the alcohol numbs the discomfort.

  • @samreetsengupta3541
    @samreetsengupta3541 2 года назад +4

    Most of the people in this video born in the late 19th century still make it to the RUclips.

  • @EgoAlters
    @EgoAlters Год назад +3

    You can tell that you are getting better, when you can smell the sock around your neck.
    But then again, one will wish they were not getting better at that stage.

  • @PHvlogger
    @PHvlogger 2 года назад +41

    "warm goose grease, which most people have in the house"
    👁👄👁

  • @nicolarollinson4381
    @nicolarollinson4381 2 года назад +68

    Some of these "cures" worked because they helped to sweat it out. Onion and lemon contain vitamin c and, the hot whiskey and rum...tastes good and knocked us out, especially us kids 😊

  • @basilbrush9075
    @basilbrush9075 2 года назад +24

    My gran would say the chap at the end didnt have flu! If you arent more or less bedridden, its not flu in her opinion

    • @Radio_Activity
      @Radio_Activity 2 года назад +14

      Your gran is correct. The term 'flu' gets banded around far too often. Most people have a cold. Flu is a different beast altogether and you barely have the strength to get to the bathroom, never mind chat happily to a film crew outside!

    • @basilbrush9075
      @basilbrush9075 2 года назад +6

      @@Radio_Activity I'll tell her, she'll be chuffed to be in agreeance with people!

    • @elainethemusician3310
      @elainethemusician3310 2 года назад +4

      She is correct.

    • @smorris12
      @smorris12 2 года назад +4

      I've had flu several times. I barely have the energy to lie down, unmoving. Everything hurts, even my eyelashes ache.

  • @matthewm2528
    @matthewm2528 2 года назад +11

    Mustard and paper on the chest 👍

  • @2_thumbs_up_baby
    @2_thumbs_up_baby Год назад

    Love these old vids. Alan Whicker!!!!

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 Год назад +2

    Starts the day off with portage bacon and eggs and a drop of whiskey in his tea. And staggering off to work

  • @garryleeks4848
    @garryleeks4848 2 года назад +7

    Whiskey in tea too start the day 👍

  • @jamesgreen8573
    @jamesgreen8573 2 года назад +10

    Love the old Britain

  • @meelodeshmeeelo2034
    @meelodeshmeeelo2034 2 года назад +18

    I’m 50 and remember my mum putting me and my nephew (only 6 years younger than me ) in her bed with loads of duvets to ‘sweat out’ whatever it was we had

    • @MarcoNegrisEye
      @MarcoNegrisEye 2 года назад

      Your mum put you and your 44 year old nephew to bed??...

    • @meelodeshmeeelo2034
      @meelodeshmeeelo2034 2 года назад +1

      @@MarcoNegrisEye haha no, well ye but when we were children, I was about 10 so he would have been 5 ish.

  • @bobsmith3291
    @bobsmith3291 2 года назад +16

    2020- hide in your house and don’t meet other people . Spit in a stupid plastic rectangle and wait for 2 lines.

  • @kawaiilotus
    @kawaiilotus 2 года назад +13

    I find it funny how only one actually mentioned real medicine, a hot toddy or elderflower wine is great for making you feel better/symptom control but won't do anything to tackle the illness, you need both.

    • @cominoengenharia
      @cominoengenharia 2 года назад

      Studies Indicate that elderflower has antiseptic properties against resistant bacteria, and at least one tested antiviral ability against H5N1 virus with success. There are a range of bioactive compounds in the flower and fruit so that now companies are patenting some of them (which is sad in my view).

    • @cominoengenharia
      @cominoengenharia 2 года назад +2

      also, there is no "real medicine", in most cases, for flu vírus. People take drugs to alleviate symptoms. So, much better is for this purpose to take what doesn't bring in adverse effects.

    • @theboujieproletariat
      @theboujieproletariat 2 года назад

      There is no cure for the flu or for the common cold. It still hasn't been invented.

    • @rebecca.smith.
      @rebecca.smith. Год назад +1

      pharma is drugs not medicine

  • @hensonlaura
    @hensonlaura 2 года назад +6

    From my farmer/hillbilly grandma in US we had, for illness of varying severity: Hot as you could stand it - sautéed onion plaster on the chest. Sock pinned around the neck (if it had Vic's Vap-o-Rub under it you had to lie down because the fumes would blind you). Lemon & honey for cough. Castor oil for regularity and when my mom was a kid... tablespoon of sugar & kerosene. Mom wouldn't let her give us that one thank God. It was to kill "worms" (shudder).
    Even when grandma dosed us with modern cough medicine (per Mom) we weren't allowed to wash the bad taste down (early 70's, medicine tasted like medicine, not candy) because she believed it was the coating on the throat that helped, not ingesting medicine!
    Not very sophisticated, only finished 8th grade, but she was intelligent, read all her life and had elevated principles & behavior. She also grew, raised, and hunted & fished everything they ate. She was tough as nails, my granny. A formidable woman who was well respected.
    I doubt many modern educated, liberated women could match her in intelligence, common sense, tenacity or ability. They sure can squall about their exacting standards of behavior & rights though!! Bless their little ole hearts.

    • @bengaliinplatforms1268
      @bengaliinplatforms1268 2 года назад

      God bless your old Granny and all those who were like her

    • @dawidjan1993
      @dawidjan1993 Год назад +2

      This took a turn towards the end. One can praise one's grandmother without slagging off other women.

    • @Miserycordya
      @Miserycordya Год назад

      Don't bring your poor sweet granny into culture war nonsense .. she sounds like an incredible woman

  • @its_matt_long
    @its_matt_long 2 года назад +8

    Watching this with the flu

  • @paulbrunton877
    @paulbrunton877 2 года назад +2

    Most of the old remedies work, and still do, especially a drop of whiskey.

  • @nezbit8989
    @nezbit8989 2 года назад +3

    Everyone said something they believed and thus got better. Sweating it out seems very feasible too

  • @justinmccurry9633
    @justinmccurry9633 Год назад +1

    The lady at 1:38 is in higher quality than 90% of videos out there

  • @robertp.wainman4094
    @robertp.wainman4094 2 года назад +18

    "Good hot breakfast" - these people knew how to live, not for them the current trend of "I don't eat breakfast - just an espresso."

  • @rockeee
    @rockeee 2 года назад +6

    'Jolly good!'

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter5849 2 года назад +10

    Alan Whicker could listen to the craziest remarks and be courteous - wonderful interviewer. But it's amazing that none of these people seem to have considered a doctor - flu epidemics killed huge numbers of people before the clean air act.

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 2 года назад +2

      The doctor was for more important things than a flu

    • @michellephillips3655
      @michellephillips3655 2 года назад

      Doctors make you ill, by selling /Dealing you pharmaceuticals that only superficially fix a problem but then the after effects which ARE THE EFFECTS do damage to other parts.. Pharma is poison. I'm not totally against doctors poison as it does save lives quickly in certain cases, however natural remedies are best... Every cure for every disease is available in that region for the diseases of that region....

    • @Hurc7495
      @Hurc7495 2 года назад +1

      before 1948 poor people wouldnt have seen a Dr unless they where on deaths door, this is probably the late 50's but old habits die hard!

    • @arthurpendragon1056
      @arthurpendragon1056 Год назад

      They are crazy remarks aren’t they. We all now know that the best solution is to inject ourselves with green monkey kidney cells, bovine serum, aluminium and mercury!

  • @Talboy-p4e
    @Talboy-p4e 10 месяцев назад +1

    We're golden years back then 1960
    British values
    And humour 😂
    Lovely people
    All doctors
    😂😂❤
    Today every one wrapped up in cotton wool

  • @phoenixh87
    @phoenixh87 3 месяца назад +1

    Hot lemon, rum and aspirin sounds good, but then he lost me at the sweaty sock.

  • @leeoasis1982
    @leeoasis1982 2 года назад +3

    Is that a Welsh Martin kemp at 4:10 😂

  • @leea2112
    @leea2112 5 месяцев назад +1

    my auld Scottish dad swore by a hot toddy a drop of whisky , lemonade , lemon juice he would warm it in a pan give it too us kids when we were rotten with the flu i remember it sweated the flu out of us and were right as rain next day and i still take it today it really does work to this day !! 😂👍

  • @andyhodge7122
    @andyhodge7122 2 года назад +3

    I’m quite thankful my Mother only forced cod liver oil on me after listening to this lot.

  • @wombatlittle1
    @wombatlittle1 2 года назад +31

    It's amazing how accents or speech has changed over time

    • @MenWithVen
      @MenWithVen 2 года назад +11

      Loads of Welsh people sound like that now

    • @wombatlittle1
      @wombatlittle1 2 года назад

      @@MenWithVen that I didn't know

    • @MenWithVen
      @MenWithVen 2 года назад

      @@wombatlittle1 where are you from?

    • @wombatlittle1
      @wombatlittle1 2 года назад +1

      @@MenWithVen Australia

    • @MenWithVen
      @MenWithVen 2 года назад

      @@wombatlittle1 ah cool. Where did you think the people in this video were from?

  • @六十前後
    @六十前後 2 года назад +2

    I hear a lot of "sweat it out". Sweating is a kind of remedy!

  • @shirleyellis9708
    @shirleyellis9708 2 года назад +4

    What about the good old Vicks .

  • @chrisleggatt3240
    @chrisleggatt3240 2 года назад +4

    Historic Naivety, makes me question how our Naivety will look in the future?

  • @randybobandy4801
    @randybobandy4801 6 месяцев назад

    My favorite fellow is still the first man to speak. No stinky socks or weird herbs for him. Good hot breakfast, tea and whiskey. Similar to Appalachian folk remedies adjusting for some cultural differences (tea v. coffee, porridge versus potatoes or hominy grits).

  • @terrynpiper7667
    @terrynpiper7667 2 года назад +57

    The good old days when the BBC made programmes instead of propaganda.

    • @baliksupper6043
      @baliksupper6043 2 года назад +2

      Boring!

    • @hurtstopee1895
      @hurtstopee1895 2 года назад +5

      this is propaganda- the kind that reminds you of what you have lost to un-relenting immigration to keep us cheap labor fodder fighting amongst ourselves. protocolsofzion states the humoring of the remaining old populous with nostalgia.

    • @Roseland8
      @Roseland8 Год назад

      They were still didling kids I'd say

  • @oldjake4233
    @oldjake4233 7 месяцев назад

    1:27 The late and wonderful Alan Whicker.

  • @keith2073
    @keith2073 2 года назад +5

    When the BBC had standard's.

  • @livesportsvideo
    @livesportsvideo 2 года назад +2

    Thank goodness for VICs Vapour Rub.

  • @WintersKnight546
    @WintersKnight546 2 года назад +3

    nowadays we shut down entire economies

  • @henrysmom1742
    @henrysmom1742 Год назад

    I was born in 1959 but remember a lot of these remedies from my childhood. When we got sick my Mum would spread goose grease with camphor oil all over our chests covered by one of my dads old tee shirts. A hot cup of tea with sugar and lemon and horrors!! a tablespoon of whiskey. Under the covers to sweat it out. Now we know a fever helps the immune system so I guess Mom knew something. Once we got more financially stable we switched to Vicks. Never took medicine for routine illnesses.

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 11 месяцев назад

    i can see how encouraging a fever and sweat might work...are these people really talking about 'flu though or just respiratory infections in general? When I had 'flu I couldn't even stand up for about 5 days let alone have the energy to make a rum punch or onion syrup!

  • @bletheringfool
    @bletheringfool 2 года назад

    Beecham's Mustard and Lard

  • @1timbarrett
    @1timbarrett 9 месяцев назад

    Charming if outdated to hear of so many alcohol-based remedies. 🥃

  • @benlachenal771
    @benlachenal771 Год назад

    My grandma swore by the idea that a sweaty sock tied around the neck is the best remedy

  • @chrisleggatt3240
    @chrisleggatt3240 2 года назад

    Word of mouth was a lot easier marketing back then. Mustard whiskey and lard. Might smear some on a face mask just to try it out.

  • @user-pt1le6cc8c
    @user-pt1le6cc8c 2 года назад +2

    My pops swore by boiled lemonade

  • @liamthewarrior
    @liamthewarrior 2 года назад +9

    Remedy n.19374693: repeat "jolly good" twice in the same sentence to keep influenza at bay

  • @Chopsyochops
    @Chopsyochops 2 года назад +14

    Sounds similar to what we do in our house in the North of the U.K. We wrap up warm, drink some lemon, whiskey and honey known as a hot toddy. Then we sweat it out and sleep. It worked for my second dose of covid too.
    I enjoy having flu, it it’s such a great reset for my body. Makes me stronger in the long run and gives me the best sleep.

    • @Intoxicanna
      @Intoxicanna 2 года назад +1

      I had many hot toddy’s in the 60’s!!

    • @NdnUrbanCat
      @NdnUrbanCat 2 года назад +3

      I wish it made me stronger. I'd run out right now and get it! Trouble is, every time I get sick, I never fully reset.

    • @Chopsyochops
      @Chopsyochops 2 года назад +1

      @@NdnUrbanCat you might be missing some vitamins and minerals which are holding you back from full recovery. When we fight any virus, we use up our vitamin and mineral stores. You may need vitamin D, C, Bs, B12 or iron. I was deficient in many after covid.

    • @TheStupidcomment
      @TheStupidcomment Год назад

      I can guarantee that if you enjoy having the flu then you've never really had the flu. A real flu is brutal and floors you for 2 weeks or more. All you've had is a nasty cold by the sounds of things.

  • @travelwell6049
    @travelwell6049 2 года назад +11

    They all pretty much have the idea that you sweat it out.
    I find Indian food helps, I don’t have anything too spicy, but it does help to sweat it out. And I always feel better the next day. These folks won’t have tried Indian at this point, probably mustard is the strongest food they have access to.

    • @tamielizabethallaway2413
      @tamielizabethallaway2413 2 года назад

      Are you seriously that ignorant...?
      .
      We've had spices from India way back in the 15th century! How do you think all the pickled foods, chutneys and other jarred foods were cooked and stored for wintertime eating? Why do you think we have Christmas pudding and Christmas cake, with all the sugar and spices? Fridge freezers were not a thing, there was no way to store summer fruits and veggies for winter when nothing grew. Preserves is what they relied on, and they'd spend 6 months of the year making food to last 12 months!
      .
      Meats and fish were salted, cured or pickled, fruits, berries, nuts, etc went into puddings, jams, jellies and chutneys. There was no Tesco delivery for all your Christmas food. Hence apple sauce, cranberry sauce, relishes, pickles etc still being particularly popular at Christmastime.
      .
      There were recipes first published in 1747 for actual curry, although people had made it long before. We ruled India from 1858, way before this video's people were even born! Henry VIII enjoyed spiced sugary treats...sugar was why the Tudor period saw so many with black or missing teeth! Queen Elizabeth I had a tooth famously extracted by a dentist. And yes I know sugar is not a spice, but neither does it grow in England!
      .
      We had tea from China in the early 1500's, and it wasn't delivered by Amazon Prime! We found The Americas in that same time period too. You know the Romans were here 2,000+ years ago right? Vikings were here 1,000+ years ago right? How do you think they got here...? Time travelled from now, went back and changed our history??
      .
      I seriously can't believe you're that stupid to NOT know that people have travelled around the globe for MILLENNIA... and think that we only just about had access to the world's resources in 1959! Have a word with yourself for Christ's sake! Did you even graduate nursery??? 😳😳😳
      .....
      EDIT*** OMG! Just realised your screen name is Travel Well.....😂🤣😅
      "Sugar and spice and all things nice, that's what little girls are made from" comes from a poem written in the 1700's.... I guess they had a premonition of what was to come? 🤔
      Or maybe it's those damn time travellers again...? 🙄
      Whoever it was, they clearly TRAVELLED more WELL than you ever have! 😳

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 2 года назад

    How did Alan Wicker manage to keep a straight face?

  • @susanpaparo4472
    @susanpaparo4472 11 месяцев назад

    Clearly they all worked because here they are telling the tale!

  • @justchristine8479
    @justchristine8479 2 года назад +4

    The bed must stink of greasy goose. 🤣

    • @baliksupper6043
      @baliksupper6043 2 года назад +2

      What an aphrodisiac!i don’t know how they contained themselves!!

  • @peterdalyy3542
    @peterdalyy3542 2 года назад +30

    Oh my goodness how wonderful England once was

    • @Alaskan-Armadillo
      @Alaskan-Armadillo 2 года назад +5

      Ah yes I to have nostalgia for the days of English Whiskey

    • @succulent951
      @succulent951 2 года назад +15

      And sweat socks around my neck

    • @baliksupper6043
      @baliksupper6043 2 года назад +3

      Spanish onion and lard,then off to the outside bog for a big shite,come back in and leave all the doors open,looovely days!

    • @kaattiiex
      @kaattiiex 2 года назад +2

      Now it’s a dumping ground, i wish London was like it was 100 years ago, it’s so sad

    • @tentringer4065
      @tentringer4065 2 года назад +4

      @@kaattiiex I too wish for the return of smog and appalling living conditions. But why only 100 years back? Why not 200 or 300?

  • @vanessahawarden9028
    @vanessahawarden9028 2 года назад +2

    Covid + boiled onion in sweaty sock = CURE 🥵🤧😃

  • @borderlord
    @borderlord Месяц назад

    Goose fat and Mustard and Brown paper...I wonder if Boots have that on the shelf!?😂

  • @davidkennedy8929
    @davidkennedy8929 8 месяцев назад +5

    I would love to hear these people’s opinion of COVID? Wish they were in charge instead of the namby pamby brigade who insisted on lockdowns, masks and social distancing!😊

    • @joeyree22
      @joeyree22 24 дня назад

      Righto Boomer! Let me guess, you’re not vaccinated for covid, but have been vaccinated for everything else before covid?

  • @ylette
    @ylette Год назад

    1:26 Great glasses

  • @londonlady227
    @londonlady227 2 года назад +3

    Feed a cold, starve a fever.

    • @chchwoman9960
      @chchwoman9960 2 года назад

      That's what I was always told too, and I find it's naturally what you feel like doing

  • @travelwell6049
    @travelwell6049 2 года назад

    Stingray from Neighbours in the back on the thumbnail. Jolly Good.

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 3 месяца назад

    How My Grandma took her pills 😀She would put them on a spoon of Jam ❤She said more pleasant way to take them

  • @luminair11
    @luminair11 2 года назад +1

    Cor blimey!!!!

  • @judyjones8876
    @judyjones8876 2 года назад

    In our house it was Vicks vapor rub and use on chest and put in your vaporiser i seen my dad swallow it i was 6 and they wernt gonna talk me into that

  • @lukemitchell1975
    @lukemitchell1975 2 года назад

    They all on the drink

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 4 месяца назад

    1959, people didn't have the luxury to work from home as there was no internet. People had to get into work. Also there was no online streaming TV, no online shopping, so flu pandemics in this era were treated like this - if you got ill, stay at home until you are well again. To everyone else, simply wash your hands, don't spread germs and get on with your life. A lesson not learnt in 2020.

  • @jamesmarshall7513
    @jamesmarshall7513 8 месяцев назад

    “Goose grease. Which everyone has in the house.”

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 2 года назад

    Hello world alan whicker quote.😆

  • @tanseygreen
    @tanseygreen 2 года назад +7

    Real men and women look at how pathetic we've become

    • @jan_Masewin
      @jan_Masewin 2 года назад

      someone has a high self esteem

  • @mmane257
    @mmane257 2 года назад

    this was done in the year my was born.

  • @joshuataylor3550
    @joshuataylor3550 2 года назад +16

    Socks on the throat is utterly insane.

    • @elleryeggen9678
      @elleryeggen9678 2 года назад +6

      When Grandma had a sock around her neck, we knew she was ill.
      She never complained. The sock was the only indication.

    • @succulent951
      @succulent951 2 года назад +3

      But the 'wait so you're not spreading it around' is real

    • @MarcoNegrisEye
      @MarcoNegrisEye 2 года назад +3

      But a thin layer of material on the beak and gob is Eureka?

    • @succulent951
      @succulent951 2 года назад +1

      @@MarcoNegrisEye Worked in the medical industry for years 🤷

    • @Paul_Templer
      @Paul_Templer 2 года назад +11

      Almost as Insane as a paper mask .

  • @dameaustel
    @dameaustel 2 года назад +1

    What's with a sweaty sock around their neck?!

    • @georgelebreton3177
      @georgelebreton3177 2 года назад

      I suppose (and hope!) they mean putting a (clean!) woollen sock quite (not too!) tight around their neck (=so, like a scarf - so why don't they just use thát, right?!), to make theirselves "sweat it out"...😊

  • @karinam4115
    @karinam4115 Год назад

    The benefits of coconut oil

  • @detectingadventuresscotlan6177
    @detectingadventuresscotlan6177 2 года назад

    2. Arse. Springs 😋

  • @joshuataylor3550
    @joshuataylor3550 2 года назад +2

    Funny that no one actually gave a mechanism.

  • @littlebrookreader949
    @littlebrookreader949 2 года назад

    👍👍

  • @lysaali50
    @lysaali50 Год назад

    slow news day?

  • @karllux-d6g
    @karllux-d6g 2 года назад +4

    Dr Faucci, Dr Bill, take notes and don't come nagging again.

  • @sputnik1941
    @sputnik1941 2 года назад

    What with the sock around the throat ?

    • @dianes9151
      @dianes9151 2 года назад

      Could be an old wives tale, not very therapeutic.

    • @jeanesingsjazz
      @jeanesingsjazz 2 года назад +1

      Keeps in body heat and helps you sweat it out when you’re sleeping. Most people used woolen socks.

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura 2 года назад

      @@dianes9151 love how you don't know, but think you know. Typical modern kid.

    • @dianes9151
      @dianes9151 2 года назад

      @@hensonlaura I love how you assume I'm a kid. I'm actually a Grandmother of 4 who spent most of my working life in the Medical Field. Most of these remedies are codswallop handed down through the generations by people who are born and died in the same town, had the fear of God, and had a narrow view on life, because they didn't know any better. If goose fat etc worked, we would still be using it now, right? These poor souls were born over 120 years ago, left school at a very young age, probably lived in a 2up, 2down, had outside toilets, probably had a bath once a week in front of the fire in a portable tub, and reused the water for the whole family, cooked on a fire stove, lived through 2 wars. Life was hard, there were very few doctors and only the rich people could afford them. These 'remedies' were used rather than nothing, they all had a basis somewhere, but so did bleeding people, and that was fatal. Is this the answer you required?

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 2 года назад +1

      @@dianes9151 you're obsessed over the goose fat. Try thinking about what they are applying with the goose fat. The goose fat was only to make a balm, that would hold the mustard in place. Which if you know enough, mustard actually helps with respiratory issues and loosening phlegm. And you'll also know that lemon is another great medical ingredient, in many modern medicines at your local drugstore, that are made for the flu. This is along with honey, another proven to help medically, natural cold/flu remedy.
      You should also know alcohol was only taken out of cough syrup, because of people getting drunk off them, not because it didn't help you get rest.
      Working in the medical field you should also know sweating it out is definitely a good way to go, for lots of infections. I understand some doctors today saying sweating doesn't help, yet if it didn't work your body wouldn't do it naturally, when you get the flu. Your bodies natural response, knows better than doctors about sweating it out.
      What does bleeding people as a medical practice, have anything to do with natural remedies? There's nothing natural about sticking someone with a needle, and draining their blood. Don't try and use unnatural medical experiments, to disprove natural remedies.
      Find the science that has been done, for every remedy here. Then come back and tell me which ones have been proven wrong, and which are still used in medicine today. I think you'll be surprised. Please, only the remedies mentioned by the people in the video, nothing about bloodletting or lobotomies.

  • @NickolaySheitanov
    @NickolaySheitanov 2 года назад +2

    Nowadays the remedy is “get your flu shot”

  • @philipmilner9638
    @philipmilner9638 10 месяцев назад

    Good greif, try telling a GP of these cures if you ring up with flu....

  • @SG3-wd40
    @SG3-wd40 2 года назад +9

    Covid ???? What a load of bollocks where's me whiskey 🤣

  • @Ben-n7l
    @Ben-n7l 3 месяца назад

    The Welsh really haven't changed much

  • @gerardtom5722
    @gerardtom5722 2 года назад

    Goose grease ...yuk

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 3 месяца назад

    Another one Was Beef Tea perks u up (oxo )

  • @fairlyvague82
    @fairlyvague82 2 года назад +1

    These people must’ve been permanently pi55ed in winter 🥴🤤

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel1237 2 года назад +4

    Rub goose grease on ya chest ? Wtf

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 2 года назад +2

      @Sarafina Summers even so why would you rub Vaseline on your chest

    • @lulubelleish
      @lulubelleish 2 года назад

      😂😂😂😂

    • @lulubelleish
      @lulubelleish 2 года назад +1

      Think Sarafino meant homemade Vick's vapor rub 😂

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 2 года назад +18

    Today they would say: "I'm absolutely sure the 4th shot will solve everything. If not, then certainly the 5th and 6th will. But, I swear, if the 7th shot doesn't finally get us back to normal then I'm definitely going to consider getting my 8th.

  • @JohnnyRelentless
    @JohnnyRelentless 2 года назад

    Does every English household still have goose fat in the larder?

  • @vika0194
    @vika0194 2 года назад

    I have never seen someone with eyes so high up on the face.

  • @bushwhackeddos.2703
    @bushwhackeddos.2703 2 года назад +3

    We don’t need none of that anymore, we get the super juice every few months.

  • @antonyhobbs1144
    @antonyhobbs1144 2 года назад

    There is no such thing as a Scotchman. Scotch is a drink a person that comes from Scotland as a Scot or Scottish