Medieval Surgery | Arrow Removal Techniques 

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I find it very interesting. When they talk about the good old days I wonder if this is what they mean

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I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee.

@@AmariKhumalo omg I ruined my knee and it kept me from being a fighter pilot. And also because I kept throwing up in my helmet

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She has a blood on him to show

I would very much like to see a video about First Nations arrowhead removal, surgery!

​@@thehistorysquad some medeval background music would be cool just a thought.

​@@thehistorysquad wait does that confirm that you did time travel?

Cheers mate 👍🏻

He's great! I'm sure he was a good police officer, but he should have been a history teacher!

Haha, thanks very much 👍🏻

Jesus 🤦‍♂️ it wasn't _that_ funny

@@gxlorp you must be such fun at parties

​@@gxlorpwho threw nuts at you?

​@@foxenandfamily5060no, just not every hollers out laughing going HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH at the simplest shit. Yeah?

Friendly fire 🔥

Only slightly better than a hacksaw

Imagine being burned alive by the roman hierarchy because you wouldn't believe that Jesus is a piece of bread.

Imagine being lanced in a joust and a Knight on his horse was pulled out.

@@repentofidols Amen

Thank you so much!!

I know right? It's very frowned upon for some reason. Here's my pitch for president of the world, "those facing capital punishment are available for all types of experimentation."

That was funny im still laughing at that one.

@@thehistorysquad Was really surpression of surgery the problem? What i have heard that church people wasnt allowed to touch blood ,touching blood was a more a thing for the wound doctors after what i heard!

@@killerkraut9179 From what I understand because of the church's distaste for touching blood, there was a separation where the church would treat disease and illness which was often believed to be a punishment from God, whereas your 'barber surgeon' would treat wounds and also minor surgery. If you look back to the Roman times, it was the barber, called the Tonsori who would cut your tonsils out.

Yes! his own soldiering experience clearly deepens his feel for the work & the ones who did it. He embodies the grim humor, and the recognition of the misery involved. This matter-of-fact approach to brutality, and to the experience of the ones in every age who have dealt it out, received it, and done their best to treat the wounds with what's available, in themselves, in their friends, & sometimes in their foes.

And look like Has a v "medieval"style face if that doesn't sound too weird lol 🇬🇧🍷xx

A career milestone: A patient actually survives!

Wow, yes I've heard of that too.

Hope it wasn't up his jacksie lol

My Grandfather claimed similar about my Great Grandfather in the many years after WWI

Amazing what the body will do. Nothing to that degree but I stepped on a nail at work and about 6-8 years later it started itching and about a week later I got a bit of cloth from the sock, some rubber from the shoe, and a piece of copper wire that holds nails together.

I used to race motorcycles, and have obviously crashed a few times. I've had glass and gravel come out years later. The closer to hard bone or gravity shelf. The fast it falls out. Chin, jaw, elbows pretty quickly. Knee, it follows down to the foot.

Indeed! An amazing find.

So 4000 years ago someone was mighty pissed at not finding that arrow...

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Probably! These things are perfectly weighted and absolutely symmetrical in profile it really is astonishing how skilled our ancestors were at making stuff. I mean look at the iceman Otzi and his kit of survival equipment. @@thehistorysquad

I imagine they were! I can visualise they hit a boar or deer which took off and the arrowhead was gone...until I showed up. @@michaelpettersson4919

Basically you can name any activity these days and see how it was worse in middle ages. I was impressed by mining museum - details being most didnt live above their thirties, died of pneumonia, cold and damp mines. No pumps, just people carrying water with lether bags all the way up. Mining done in horizontal crawl-shafts where you cant stand up. Just incredibly miserable.

Modern weapons are far more lethal and if you are not evacuated you would suffer worse i think.

@@czr7j9 But body armour is better. Wounds which would have killed someone in WW2 or Viet Nam now result in a limbless torso. Is that better or worse?

In 500 years people will be saying the same about us, imagine living in a time where people died of cancer they will be thinking.

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He was the same with details at Warwick castle i always enjoyed listening whilst i worked there.

Cheers buddy!

I am looking into doing some more on the subject so stand by

“Diagnosis: He’s got an arrow in his head.”

@@thehistorysquad you are my herooo

@@thehistorysquad absolutely appreciate this type of history. Thank you.

@@patrickstewart3446 I used to be a commentor like you, then I took an arrow in the head... :)

It's true, don't underestimate people. We tend to look back at the past and laugh at how "stupid" they were, with the benefit of hindsight. But, we've always had the same brains, the only difference between us and them is we have all the knowledge we've gained from lifetimes of millions of people trying to figure everything out. We had to start at square one with everything.

Fun fact: Thinking people in the past were dumb, means you're dumber than what you thought they were.

Ehhh, that's debatable. You'd be surprised how "stupid" they were, I say that as a medical doctor today who learned about history of medicine. You might be shocked to find that no doctor in the world was smart enough to figure out that washing your hands after working on cadavers was a good idea, and they spread infection like that to mothers during birth, as well as newborns, causing a lot of infant deaths. In fact, the doctor that suggested that hand hygiene might be important and wanted doctors to disinfect their hands after touching bodily fluids, called Ignaz Semmelweis, was kicked out of a university hospital in Vienna, one of the top hospitals in the world, for suggesting that. He later died alone and sick because he was prosecuted and mocked his entire life for suggesting basic hygiene in hospitals. And guess when that was? 12th century? 15th? Nope, 19th century. Barely 150 years ago. Of course, they didn't really know much about infectious microorganisms then, but even just washing your hands so they're not visibly dirty and don't stick of blood, corpses, etc. SEEMS like a very obvious and reasonable thing to do. But nope, not to them. In fact, they mocked the idea of it. You'd be shocked to learn how little common sense and intelligence was used in medicine throughout most of the past. Surgery was very, very, very primitive, and therefore most often unsuccessful, and even basic surgical work most often ended in disaster.

​@@derbigpr500 OMG - I didn't realize how lucky I am. I was born in a hospital in Vienna. Maybe I went through a few reencarnations before they got it right 😁

Necessity is the mother of invention... Also, they had a LOT of people to practice on!

1080's?

@@davidmadguy6003 "in the 80's "

@@user-ko3vg7fc7o it was a joke sorry, thank you for your service

Ah yes, I have had a few feint over the years haha, nice to meet you again!

Man thats so cool. I wish I could have seen that back in the day. Honestly this channel reminds me of the good days of History Channel and it really recaptures my interest in history

Means didn't get the point

Long lasting souvenirs lol

Some people just don’t stop kicking. Bless your dad

Same thing with my grandfather. B17 copilot shot down by flack. Years later he was pulling old schrapnel out of his legs

My grandpa's b24 was taken down over France, besides bullet wounds he had metal shrapnel lodged in his legs and arms.

A great insight to the benefits of honey, thanks 👍🏻

That is why I love / respect bees. Wonderful creatures.

Leeches weren't the best solution used for most cases . .

They probably practiced a lot on pigs.

Trial and error is hie everything is figured out Dont be a scientologist

Cheers Jack, will do.

yea i dig the chirugeon costume

Thanks, welcome to the channel 👍🏻

There were no people in Scotland 2000 BC.

​@@tomwalker389 Uuuh... yes. Yes, there were. The Picts did not just pop out a few years before the Romans came, after all.

@@tomwalker389 The Callanish Stones are over 5,000 year old. Somebody had to erect them

Aliens @@Draefend

Hi there, thanks for watching and welcome to the channel, I hope you'll enjoy some of our other vids 👍🏻

Cheers David, thanks for watching 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Also cheers from Texas [2]. The content always remains interesting and well-conveyed.

They also lacked pure oxygen that vastly aids recovery, Infact without it modern surgery would not be possible.

It would be wise to keep a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to ancient stories.

@@patjohnson1395 it's also wise to assume they notice the same things we do. While they may not be scientific, they're not stupid.

​@@lemons1559 exactly! Even going back thousands of years it's clear that there were people around who knew their shit (and a few who didn't know shit) just like today.

I am Dylan, thank you.

Thanks Colin for your very kind comment, I'm glad you enjoyed this video, I'm hoping to do more 👍🏻

@@DonnellOkafor True, but back in those times they at least had alcohol to drink and dull the pain for a bit lol

​@@YouOnlyIiveTwiceor the infamous wooden club to the head

That's so kind of you, thanks!

I know right? A conversation you could have for hours.

Thank you for your service.

I just commented about a similar situation with my grandfather! He was shot by Nazis and the bullet lodged next to his heart. They opted to leave it in. He lived into his 70s, bullet included. It didn’t even move any of the times he got struck by lightning

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I have an Army medic to thank for saving my eye, never knew his name but am forever grateful 👍🏻

Glad I could help!

Yes, even the great David Starky, I wish he was my History teacher, I could have learned so much more. Thank you for an interesting re-enactment.

That's the problem with our schools. They take absolutely fascinating subjects and they manage to reduce them to the driest most boring yarns you could think of, delivered by deeply uninteresting teachers. They kill education.

The only information I remember from high school history, which I studied for hours every week because the teacher was a maniac, is our town was burnt down in 1468. I only remember it because I drew flames around the number.

👍🏻 cheers Greg.

Thanks Drew, there should be more to come. 👍🏻

Thanks for watching Jodie. I hope to touch on the topic of miasma in a video in the near future, so stand by 👍🏻

Haha, thanks for the sub & welcome to the channel.........I LOVE popcorn 👍🏻

Wow, thanks!

Our pleasure, thanks for watching 👍🏻

cept we got fatter.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it, thanks 👍

Thanks very much! I do love doing this and am glad you like the videos!

I bought two custom long bows that were sent to the Hunger games first movie set. The production company did not use the bows I have , but there are a great conversation piece. They are English long bows made by a small handful of Craftsmen that have maybe 200 years of combined Archery Knowledge between them. I always wondered how archery wounds were really handled. Thank and and Great Respects, From America. Randall H DSD

I wonder if you could do a video on what it took to become a midevil Professional Archer, like what bows they used, how they were trained, what mail was used , if any to stop the broadheads. That would be very interesting, as all the knowledge I know about those great Archers is what I have seen in the movies, and its probably pretty inaccurate in real life. Thank You

Haha, cheers Adam, welcome 👍🏻

For sure, it's on the cards, thanks!

you may survive the piercing, but the infections, those i bet it was like lottery, only lucky survived

My pleasure, I'm torn between those two periods myself. I'm a huge WW1 student. Every day's a learning day 👍🏻

You're most welcome 👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it!

Our pleasure!

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Thanks Randall. If I ever find myself in FL or PA, I'll seek those museums out, as you say, it's quite fascinating 👍🏻

Did they use bows and arrows during the American Civil War?

​@sandgrownun66 No, but they used germ covered lead bullets that shattered your bones, and 95% of the time, the solution was amputation.

Cheers David, more medicine is on the cards 👍🏻

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Hey thanks very much, welcome to the channel 👍🏻