Medieval medicine was CRAZY! 

Me too, I feel like its pretty legit but it pays to be carefull. I'm sure it will be fine and I can start munching myself through anything that looks vaguely edible for profit in no time:)

@@sizanogreen9900 Even the Giant's Toe?

@@sizanogreen9900 What about the Vampire Dust?

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

@@willgames416 @Breaden Stewart I gotta say after watching the video I am starting to have my doubts...

Many modern medicines also have side effects. I believe it's usually question of whether the side effect is worse than the symptom being treated.

But many people today are stupid. There's a massive interest in useless and harmful pseudomedicine. Why would that be different back then?

In the 19th century, Robert Liston revolutionized english medicine by cleaning his instruments and apron after surgeries. Dirty tools and apron, especially freshly dirtied ones, were seen as the mark of a good, busy surgeon...

A lot of medicine they used back then, we still use now. But we don't think about it because it's so orthodox.

@@krystofdayne Oh no, I know many very educated people who fall for pseudomedicine. Homeopathy would be a good example. It's very popular amongst certain rather educated groups.

That's hilarious 😆

It's good to be the boss.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

@@taylorfusher2997 It’s a game 🤷‍♂️

Lol

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

@@taylorfusher2997If you're so curious about Elden Rings, maybe you should head to the comments section of a video about it instead?

silver, like platin, is a catalyst. many poisons are rather reactive (as their reaction with the body is what makes them poisonous), so that should work on some toxins (especially if the drink is warm/hot) but not all. however, never put an egg in that goblet because the reaction creating the foul egg smell certainly does use silver as catalyst.

@@Amy_the_Lizard I think Taylor is a bot, but accidentally used the wrong account to post these. No sane person would spam such a comment in so many replies.

That reminds me of the first Sherlock Holmes movie where one of the victims was killed in his bathtub via a paralytic mixed in with his bath salts that activated on contact with copper, which his bathtub was made of.

And if youre the only doctor for a good distance....

knowledgable women? She is a witch!

@@stapelchips6559 And a pretty damn good one it seams. :)

@@stapelchips6559 Or both. Would be awesome

@Stapel Chips Most women that were considered as "witches" during 17th and 18th centuries were actually women that tried to make remedies for the sick people. When some of their remedies worked better than the old traditional medicine, they were accused of using witchcraft. Because in those times, male doctors refused to accept that some women were better doctors than men.

I amlost puked...fat, old, he needs to bring in hot women. He literally saying this wok shit sucks and what does he do? Prob a lesbo.

If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.

Reminds me of the lobotomy procedures that we used to perform not that long ago.

I took a class where we had a unit on early modern medicine, so a bit later than this, and one of the things that we read about was a potion provided by a priest to someone suffering... Headaches I think? Anyway, the potion was a small bottle of wine that the priest had said the Lord's Prayer over, and written a Bible verse on a piece of parchment and rolled it up inside the bottle.

@ Great_OLAF5 It worked right?

@@lincolndunford6693 Dunno, I don't recall if the book elaborated on that, and it wasn't one of the assigned textbooks, it was just a chapter of the book the professor provided us with a PDF of, so I don't have it anymore.

The ancient Romans operated on cataracts too.

he got crushed to death? o.O

@@olivegrove-gl3tw yes he was but he never gave in to them and maintained his pride throughout the entire thing.

Gigachad.

​@@olivegrove-gl3tw he refused to enter a plea of innocent or guilty. They tortured him to get him to enter a plea, by putting a board on him and putting stones on top. He would only say "more weight", until he was crushed to death. If he had pled guilty, his lands may have been forfeit as part of his punishment. If he had pled innocence and been found guilty by the (massively corrupt) court, his lands could have been forfeit as part of the punishment. By not entering a plea, his lands passed to his children (daughters I believe) when he died.

Generally the rise of witch-hunts correlate with protestantism. The Catholic church's stance was either we're gonna ignore them, or they don't exist

Basically. Kramer had a...very disturbed opinion about women like ancient Athenian bad. And the book gained validity because of fearmongering of some priests and truly vile SOB's that didn't like women having even a little say in especially economical or education matters. Basically few bad appels caused some 40.000 woman and some 10.000 men's horrific deaths.

Yes, just relieving the stress can do wonders for healing as your body frees up energy for recovery. As well community and familial support during healing also has a HUGE benefit (Familiar common ritual being a big part of the stress reducing factor). There have been a lot of studies that basically all say the best place to heal is at home (if not a polluted environment) surrounded by loved ones taking care of your physical and emotional needs and doing familiar ritual acts.

Yeah, seems he has a misunderstanding of the word placebo. Placebo effect is when something *shouldn't* have a positive effect, but does because the person believes it should. That's what makes it so confusing. It's not just false positives, like the false bites they used as an example, but would instead be if the concoction actually did help some people because they believed it should.

also to combat fewer

Native Americans also made a type of lozenge from willow bark and pine needles (high in vitamin c). The colonial leaders brushed it off as native barbarism, but it worked for energy, recovery from pains, fevers, scurvy, and all the benefits of aspirin and vitamin c bring. How quickly they forgot their own histories.

Aspirin *is* extracted from willow bark. It's possible (certain) that people are trying to find admixture that gets the pain-relieving effects without the side effects, though.

Nurgle priest confirmed.

Pus has one s. Two is a cat.

@@rhettorical Puss can heal wounds as well. Place it on the wound and power it up, make sure the motor is running, and the patient will feel much better.

@@rhettorical or…the other thing

Eeewwww!

And also Ointment.

The last is always fairly odd to me because fat is something we've always eaten and it's use in cooking goes back to prehistoric civilizations, outsized sugar consumption is a very recent change. The oldest recipes in history have rendered fat as explicit ingredients.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

@@pubcle I actually saw a video talking about historical mistakes and its pretty much because of one man. Eisenhower, while he was president, had a massive heart attack and some decided it had to be his diet and not the cartons of cigarettes he smoked per day. Because of this one specific doctor argued that high fat in your diet was dangerous and sugar wasn't that bad. He was also known to be extremely combative and would argue with anyone who disagreed with his opinion loudly and publicly. And with some funding by sugar manufacturers we get where we are today where pretty much everything in the US diet has massive amounts of addictive sugar added.

@@Nostripe361 He was funded by coca cola, they specifically hired him because he was a marketing specialist who happened to do science on the side. They spent 5 years of marketing budget to basically push sugar=good, fat=bad on a global scale because their drink had lots of sugar and kids were having heart attacks and they worried government regulation might come in and shut them down (or at least out them from massive market sectors). So they pushed legislators to worry about fat, and scared the public about fat so much that they couldn't put resources into testing sugar. That was when coca-cola released their (Very) flawed biased research as "proof" that sugar was good, any argument basically had to go through this research and was stalled. Any counter research was actively sabotaged, legislated against, or pre-discredited to protect them from real government oversight. The worst part is his own research showed: Sugar is addictive (So they actually upped the sugar contents). Children are an easily addicted market (So they pushed child friendly ads and forced schools to add vending machines to better sell to kids). Caffeine is harmful to kids (But also highly addictive, especially to kids, so they upped that too). Sugar causes many harmful effects and fat in normal amounts is healthy, large amounts can be dangerous (About 1/10 as dangerous as high sugar can be). They knew this, and they fudged their results to hide this even though they KNEW from his own research.

X-rays were also used to remove hair and wrinkles in the U.S. Beauty salons would do x-ray hair removal or wrinkle removal services. It was banned in 1946 but some people went to back alley salons to continue the treatments. A study done in 1970's concluded that 35% of radiation based cancers in women were caused by x-ray hair removal treatments.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

Does she has some kind of "manual" or book of the things she had learn?

Sounds quite like what we call it in German paternoster= Vater unser=our father

You can build up immunity to toxins that the body is actually capable of breaking down or ignoring by essentially training it to get better at breaking it down, or training it to function in spite of its presence (same as building a tolerance to alcohol or specific drugs) but if it's something that trashes cells and can't be broken down, there's not really anything you can do to become resistant. The downside is that prolonged exposure to the toxin could still be harmful. For instance, an alcoholic needs to consume more alcohol than a normal person for it to effect them, and in some cases may be able to survive drinking quantities of alcohol that would be lethal to a non-alcoholic because their neurons are used to having to work around the alcohol, but all that alcohol consumption is still slowly damaging their liver, and if they stop consuming it suddenly they'll go into withdrawal because they're body isn't used to functioning without it anymore. Taking small amounts of the same poison over a long period of time to gain resistance to it runs the risk of potentially having something similar occur

@Amy I agree. I was responding to Shad's seeming disbelief in such a possibility.

Antivenom is created by immunizing animals like horses or cows to a venom and then extracting the antibodies from their blood. Same thing, but on a larger scale.

@@feuerling I knew that venom from the source animal was needed to make antivenom, but not the actual process to make it. Thx for the info.

@@benkayvfalsifier3817 Yes, so basically a horse or cow needs way more venom to kill them. So by only injecting a little bit they will just make the antibodies and survive. In theory this can be done with humans but it is highly dangerous as only a very little venom will kill us.

Catholics know that one well too.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

I love this because we learn in Anthropology just how life sustaining practical experience mixed with traditions helped humanity grow. We knew what plants were poisonous because someone found out and told the rest (or they noticed patterns when eating specific foods of being in certain areas causing sickness), then we passed that knowledge down through tradition until it became folklore. Small things like healers washing hands because when they did, surgeries tended to go better than when they didn't. They made up lore as to why so as to more easily educate the next generation. The trouble came when "gentlemen" changed their attitudes and the lore failed to follow because they never asked WHY the old traditions said to wash, only that washing purified the body (but if they are already "pure" then it must not be for them).

Indians, Greeks and Romans all had cataract surgeries as well. One of the Roman methods was to insert a hollow needle, move it around to dislodge the film then suck it out through the other end of the needle. They would then use vinegar lotion, breast milk or copper oxide to help the eye heal.

@@robo5013 afaik, the Chinese learnt it from Indians (they will likely deny this tho xD), I remember reading that India was also the first civilisation to invent, or at least record, cataract surgery, so it’s possible it spread to the west from there as well.

@@SwedishSinologyNerd india still is the world's apothecary. sure they make the cheap stuff nowadays (and sometimes in poor quality) but the cheap stuff is the most important medicine. the more of a problem an illness is, the earlier it gets researched and the more the solution gets engineered, leading to really really cheap production cost and high success rates. so much that humans outside of india (and a few other countries) become too expensive to make that vital medicine. so at the beginning and the end it is india. at first because they are so great and at the end because they are so cheap. oh the irony.

I remember a teacher telling us that "hocus pocus" came from a contraction and distortion of the "hic est corpus meus" (this is my body) that the priest would say during the transformation of bread and wine at the mass. People not knowing Latin would hear this mumbling and repeat it like a magic spell.

Now imagine them hearing "Avinu shebashamayim..." ;)

I knew that, and I'm Jewish. "Pater Noster" is also the term for an old-fashioned type of elevator. They would come in pairs moving continuously up on one side, then they get to the top and move over to the other shaft and move down continuously until they got to the bottom, and slide over to the up side and so on. They were rather dangerous because they were open and always moving. They were called "paternosters" because you had to say a prayer not to get killed jumping on or off one. And speaking of being Jewish, one of the medieval doctors she mentioned, Moses Maimonides, is very well-known in Judaism. He is more known today for his writings on religion, philosophy, and ethics, more than on medicine. He was truly brilliant, but also a bit arrogant. He said, "From Moses to Moses, there was no one like Moses," comparing himself to Moses from the Bible.

@@PhilBagels I thought the 'pasternoster' name for elevators was due to their resemblance to a rosary chain. They're definitely dangerous though... As to hocus pocus, that's one of several theories, and it's worth noting that origin was suggested by an archbishop of the Church of England _specifically_ as an argument against the Latin mass. Other suggestions are it's a latinized name of a possibly mythical Norse sorceror, or that it's an evolution of a different psuedo-latin rhyme 'hax pax max deus adimax' (something like 'this mighty salutation we offer before God the greatest', used to invoke spirits (as in, originally it was an *earnest* magic thing)). We know for a fact that the earliest recorded appearance of the phrase 'hocus pocus' is in 'Hocus Pocus Junior: An Anatomy of Legerdemain', a book on stage magic written in 1635, and that it may have been the stage name of a (stage) magician before that.

@@basedeltazero714 You may be right.

🥞🥘🥧🥤🤮

His name isn't 'chad', it's THAD

No, his name is obviously Rhad.

No one suggested they were stupid?

@Fizzishin Lots of people think everyone in the medieval world was stupid. I've met several of them in my life.

@@lonelystrategos They weren't inherently less intelligent, they were just... challenged, and made odd assumptions. The idea that medieval (and earlier) people were stupid, stems from the fact that they made a lot of incorrect assumptions, about things that were (with the technology available) easily disprovable through observation.

@@lonelystrategos we can thank the Victorian era for that

@@TheSuperRatt I wouldn’t even say challenged, they had the same brains as we do now , the big difference is technology and what they can observe while testing , and people still make very odd assumptions like the earth being flat or vaxccines causing autism

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

Yep, and other words for them from the time actually do translate to something similar to cure-all. Probably a lot more snake oil type salesmen in those days than there are now!

When Kodak introduced modern color photography film, (color film existed before Kodachrome, but it was of extremely poor quality,) the process was developed not by professional engineers, but by a pair of musicians who dabbled in amateur chemistry and photography. It was their musical talent that actually made it work: by singing passages they could time the chemical reactions more precisely than the laboratory instruments that were available in the 1920s, giving them a leg up on other researchers.

Actually, the term "snake-oil" being used to refer to fake medicines in the US derives from a literal snake oil (melted snake fat) that some Chinese immigrants that worked as laborers in the 1800s used for joint pain. Ironically, the fat from the type of water snake they were using actually does work due to specific compounds it contains, but people started making cheap knock-offs out of various other snakes native to the US, and those didn't do anything, which spawned the saying...

If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.

They take a little practice to wear, but I agree him getting a period correct pair would be great.

I cured my sister's blind eye by following the tips in this video, I don't know what you're talking about

Or maybe just dont let kids and mentally deficient people watch it.

The modern world pains me

@@willkrueger3857 I'd be dead in the ancient world, so I prefer what we have today.

@@TheSuperRatt Time isn't a dichotomy between Ancient and Modern. There are plenty of reasons to hate the modern world, and they can be had without a desire to return to the ancient one. My hatred, as it pertains to the original comments, was directed at the fact that his mother had no reverence or respect for her ancestors, or even for history itself, and just threw away such fantastic texts because they were considered old/ignorant.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.

@taylorfusher2997 I'm not sure why you're asking this person about Elden Rings when their comment had nothing to do with it, but yes large populations of people need food, though it should be noted that things like grains and vegetables are vastly more important than livestock for food production, and that with the exception of sheep, most livestock historically were just kinda left in a field to fend for themselves for the most part. I'm also not sure why you listed "crop" and "agriculture crop" as separate things, so I'm just going to assume that was an accident. Also, while the distinction is minor in this context, I'd also like to mention that pigs aren't technically grazing animals, as their digestive system isn't designed to get nutrients out of grass. They require a diet more rich in protein and more easily digested, and actually have similar dietary needs to humans; if they're only given grass or hay to eat, they'll die from malnutrition.

If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.

To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.