Surgeon Reacts To WORST Punishments In History Of Mankind Ep 3 

I worked in a graveyard in my teens. Boss used to say he was never scared because "the dead can't hurt you, it's the maniacs who are still alive you have to worry about".

These videos get me thinking. One of the biggest (and most commonly committed) no-no's in ancient/medieval society was desertion from an army. I wonder if some of these executions were designed to make getting stabbed on the battlefield look peaceful by comparison.

I’m not sure what’s worse, a short but agonizing death when burned at the stake, or a desperate and slow death due to dehydration, feeling the weakness expand and intensify before something fails

I’m not entirely sure how feasible this one would be to cover, but I remember when I first discovered a lot of different torture methods, the one that really stuck with me was Rat torture where they put a bucket of starved rats on someone’s stomach and they eat through… it would be really interesting to hear the in-depth review of this from a medical standpoint. I’m also unsure if it has already been covered by you but another interesting one to possibly cover would be some of the traps from the Saw horror series? According to the directors, many of the traps were tested to see if they were actually possible, even if they’re not super realistic. It really makes me wonder if the survivability of some of them is actually medically possible. I really enjoy this series because it really shows these aspects of the body you don’t think about until they’re exposed to situations such as these. Great work Doc :)

Sheeeiiit the Denzel cut at 8:30 cracked me. I love that the doc keeps it light hearted, but sometimes you forget he's around death and pain every day. Then you see how he jokes💀💀

I remember reading a story about a serial killer who supposedly killed 900 people and kept a woman prisoner for years and got her pregnant multiple times. He was subjected to the wheel for 9 days

Now that's what I call The Proper Iron Throne

"Chop my head off." "Not me, I'd rather be burnt at the stake." "Why?" "Hot steak's better than a cold chop!"

Always look forward to your videos, never cease to learn something

I am amazed by the sadistic minds of bad people there is simply no limit. There are two methods I would love if you will discuss in future episode. 1 is for torture and 1 is sometimes for torture sometimes for execution. Method 1 is the famous scourge the Roman version of it. Method 2 is much less violent in nature but nonetheless interesting- Chechen burial. In Chechen burial the victim is buried alive deep within the ground. If he survives long enough without oxygen and able to escape his life are spared, but you understand of course mostly didn't survive such a fate.

Thanks for all your material and time.

Great video! Could you do scaphism next? It is by far one of the most creatively cruel torture/execution methods I have heard of.

The "Pear of Anguish" would be an interesting one.

I would like to see you cover the Blood Eagle ritual that was used by the Vikings! This form of execution is absolutely brutal! What happens is the victim’s back is sliced open and the ribs are forcefully detached from the spine to form a pair of bony wings. They then pull the Victim’s lungs out covering the “wings” in the victims blood.

Humans have never stopped torturing, it's just that now they torture every other species on the planet. They just can't help themselves. Nice to see Medieval Madness be used here; so few British channels get recognition outside of the UK and Europe, so this'll be a nice boost to their subscriber base!

This one time I tripped and as I was falling I put my arms out. When I landed on my hands and knees I felt this sharp pain in my elbow. The pain was brutal; in fact, it hurt so bad that I got nauseous and dizzy which is why I decided to sit down. And when I sat down my vision went black but I didn't lose consciousness. I had two stress fractures in my left elbow. The fracture left scar tissue which sometimes hurts almost as bad as the day I broke it. I'll take a chipped ankle over a stress fracture any day.

i just stumbled across this channel . but holy heck am i hooked =] keep it up these are fun

Okay... Pretty great breakdown from the medical approach... AND... I would like to see you discuss the details and differences between the old school Roman Scourge and the newer Cat o' Nine Tails, long as we're into the whole torture devices thing... Obviously with those, somewhere, there should be a reasonable short mention of the whip, in general, as they were both related to it... It's JUST worth a mention that in Auschwitz there was a torture building "The Block" that had a somewhat modern take on the Oubliette. In the Block, however, they were a series of cells, hastily constructed with barely room to slouch inside, almost no view out, and prisoners were locked in for days at a time (of course). It's not quite the extent of hellish that the old-school Oubliettes were known for, but once locked inside, there was no sitting to squatting, no rest without letting the rock dig at your skin... and that was that... until they let you back out again, IF they let you back out. ;o)

I am continually stunned and befuddled at the seemingly endless creative ways we humans have thought up and developed to inflict pain and suffering on each other..

Thanks Doc! Now my nightmares are gonna be worse.

"Pain would ensue" Well that's definitely one way to put it.

You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way

I’ve heard that the Chinese torture chair wasn’t actually used on anyone, but had some ritualistic role instead.

The skull crusher in the tower of London always plagued my nightmares... Exploding teeth 🤯

Visit the museum of torture in San Diego CA. Very interesting to see some of these devices in real life.

Back then, getting arrested, whether guilty or not, was basically a death sentence. Torture was systematic, those who would have survived it without getting sentenced to death later (what would happen anyway since most would confess for the torture to stop) would have been terribly crippled for the remainder of their lives and left unable to work.

Doctor, can you share with us, what is this website/app, that we can see in the minute 2:10? It may help me out as I'm a med student when studying anatomy.

Fascinating how the random permutations of the Internet took me to this webpage, as I was just watching a magnificent video of Led Zeppelin performing "Stairway to Heaven". Oh, 1973, at Madison Square Garden, of course. 🎸

Would be interesting to see why the more mental torture methods still had major physical impacts.

Watching this video made my arthritis hurt much less. Those are some knarly torture methods!

Im from germany and in 10th grade we had a trip to the Rothenburg crime museum, which is in fact a torture museum. The building was used for all the grim middle ages "investigation" stuff with the real devices and location used back then. Quite unpleasant, especially if you know all things they show you are legit and where used not so long ago.

Couldn't help but chuckle at the bit about syncope. I come from a family of fainter and have low blood pressure. My nervous system's idea of "extreme conditions" includes, but is not limited to someone I didn't know was there said "hi" and I did not realize the shirt I picked up had tissue paper under it.

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Please breakdown the "medical" experiments performed at Unit 731.

It's amazing what people could think up to torture and kill other people without the internet to guide them is amazingly sick.

You really need to discuss the Comfy Chair as used so effectively by the Spanish Inquisition.

What software are you using for the 3D models of the body? That looks super handy. :)

This is painful to even hear. Would either drop dead as soon as I saw what they had in store, or ask another prisoner to take me out of my misery. How are humans so very mean & sick in the head

1:26 Why is it always we germans wo make the blueprints. Yes this language is old german. At the top stands: "Precise print of the wheelbreakmachine, which was used for execution." Below that is a very detailed instruction how to use it. Not gonna translate that part, except the Doc himself asks for it It^^

The chair looks comfortable 😄

Disappointed you didn’t use a clip from the movie Labyrinth for the oubliette, it’s where I learned the word lol.

Planting bamboo shoots under prisoners and letting them grow was always up in the top of my impressively over the top methods, and there are many variants, including planting them under fingernails, under the body, in the knee cap, under the eyelid, in the ear…

Infographics Show is so addictive

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Reminder the breaking was typically only ever used on the people who commit the worst of crimes.

The wheel torture was displayed gruesomely is the fantastic manga « Berserk », where a very beefy guy was using a big one as a bludgeon and breaks all bones from arms and legs, to fit the body on the wheel. It was used by fanatical minions of a priest with a twisted, extreme sense of worship of God. For a torture, i was thinking on the infamous chinese torture of the drop of water on the forehead. While not bloody, so kind of a bore to a surgeon, i am pretty curious about the psychological impact of this, if you have any insight on this torture.

Wow i never expected to see a clip from Alec Steele on here 👍

Humans can really be so vile to one another and the lengths to which a warped imagination can run is astonishing

In Medieval England heretics were burned at the stake (as was St Joan d'Arc). Could we hear about what happens to the victim during such a process (if we haven't already). Similarly the effects of long and short drop hangings would make interesting lessons on anatomy.

Up coming torture video maybe, the rack, Iron maiden, the expanding pear

flaying is rather awful. Strappado was bad. hanged, drawn and quartered was kinda awful. the scavenger's daughter is a good one, and the pear of anguish can't forget that little gem. the Viking blood eagle was an interesting one. I believe there was 3 methods to burn people. being boiled in oil would be painful.

There's the infamous scaphism where somebody basically was forced in a container of their own sh*t for several days until they died of septic shock.

You should do a video that covers scaphism

You should cover the various... "devices" of the Saw franchise!

Torture of prisoners. That case when baby shark was played on loop. It wasn't physical but mental torture.

That thumbnail is something you would see in a saw trap

The labyrinth movie did it the best

I watched this video... and felt nothing but pain throughout my entire body. >.

Noting better than the old IRON MAIDEN

I think it’d be interesting to see you look more into Egyptian/middle eastern and Asian torture devices

I love how infographics is a frequent

the labyrinth with david bowie told us 80s and 90s kids what an oubliette is its basically a place too book people to forget about them

I've heard of head tarring, where a cap of hot tar was applied to the scalp, and I've heard it would cause the hair to grow in masses under the skin. I'm not sure if it's related to tarring and feathering. I've also heard of tarred and feather, and run out of town on a rail.

The wheel somehow coming off once you've been threaded through it..."Well, the majority of your bones are broken and you're severely dehydrated, but you're free to go!" - To what end? What kind of life could you expect to have with the seriously limited medical care in those days? Like the man said, humanity's ability and creativity to destroy one another just blows my mind 😪

The "Treatments" That Come To My Mind That You Have Not Talked About Are: 1) The Iron Maiden. 2) The Blood Eagle. 3) Boiling Alive. 4) Burying Alive. 5) Impalement. 6) Woodchipper. 7) Stoning. 8) Hanging. 9) Sawing. 10) Firing Squad. 11) Guillotine. 12) Being Casted Into The Sea With A Milestone Attached.

Has he ever played surgeon simulator? If so, where is the video? If not, I will pay money to watch that, as I’m sure several others would as well.

To make the humiliation worst, the victims where often stripped. When condemn to the wheel, one's only hope is to get into cardiac arrest before mid process. The sooner the better. I knew about the oubliette... But it's even worst than I imagined. As for those «chairs»... Yikes !!! ALL of those belong in the deepest pits of hell, NOT the real world. Those a cruel even against demons and devils.

Humans are so cruel with their torture devices!! The mind boggles!

Wasn’t the oubliette in the Labyrinth movie with David Bowie? lol

I don’t know, man…I think I’d take the wheel over the Oubliette. Physical pain is one thing but mental anguish is a whole other animal

never forget it was the rich and powerful that created these creative means of dispossing of their enemies...

Discuss Viking Flailing...

You should do the Blood Eagle

The boats torture method has to be the worst I've ever heard of, being left to rot and be eaten by insects while being kept alive with milk and honey....I'd like to see you cover that one

So, you shatter someone's bones to "Dust" on the wheel and then drop then into the oubliette. Make sure the oubliette is dry and keep them down there for years. Obviously feeding them food and water. Eventually free them when the bones have been set disfigured and they are unable to leave.

My patron Saint George the Great Martyr was tied to a wheel and spun over spear points. If you believe in miracles, the story gets weirder. He just wouldn't die, no matter how long they did it for, and his body was unharmed despite blood being shed. They ended up cutting his head off, but not before many who witnessed it converted on the spot and were martyred with him.

I suggest sawing or blood eagles. Possibly both.

Hey can you do a saw traps video, I think that would be interesting

I’ll give this a 👍 just because I watch the whole thing but man I barely made it to the end.. idk how you make these videos lol

The iron madden looks absolutely horrible, try taking that one on.

Does anyone get the impression from the first one that some executioner was just kind of workshopping stuff. Like, they were sure that a wheel would be a cool torture device, but werent really sure how so... errr... could hit someone with it?

You're awesome Chris. You're telling these horrific tales in a great and horrying way :P Dr. Chris pain!

Boiling in Oil...yeah, it wasn't used to extract information but hell did it torture the souls who were sent to be boiled. (the Japanese father and his baby really hit the most).

Another good lesson in the bag.

I wonder if we can make tech priests (warhammer 40k), tenno (warframe), and or the crisis suit from well crisis

Could you please go over how stage 4 colon cancer is going to kill me in 20-30 months.

Amputation of fingers and toes increasing to amputation of hands and feet then... Also scalping; what kind of result did this bring?

Keelhauling is the worst way to be punished by far

Is there a chance you could make a video about Kengan Ashura's fight between Meguro Masaki vs Muteba Gizenga? The fight is so brutal and bloody that I'd like to hear your thoughts about the damage they did to each other.

If we're talking torture, it would be interesting to talk about the torture inflicted on Griffith from the anime Berserk, the red eclipse sacrifice would be an interesting subject too

Ideas for politicians list updated🤣 (In minecraft of course)

Ah, I see the Warhammer 40k series continues

1 thing about the ovulate is some were hooked up so the person could smell food cooking.

brutal😳

The info-graphics show is not the most accurate sources on torture and execution. If you have the time to read for example, French historian Pascal Bastien, for the early modern period in France, the way was to tie the person on an X shaped cross, beat them with an iron rod, ironically called a "fêtu" (ABC de la langue française), thus breaking the limbs. The person would then be taked from the X-shaped cross to be transfered to a wheel, were the broken bones now allowed the flexibility to expose them to the sky. This is what is called "broken on the wheel". Most of the time, a retentum (or discreet strangulation) was applied, more or less legally. Usually, executioners didn't care to make torture last for hours, since they had other stuff to do, since it was often supplementary hours without financial reward. I don't know much for the german varient, but if I remember it correctly, the wheel was more directly involved in the execution, though, nor the ones used in the Roman Empire. However, many sources on torture methods used by Ancient Rome are basically Christian mythology, and are to be taken with a grain of salt. Pascal Bastien is not the main historian on executions in early modern France, but one of the most available and convenient ones. Also, oubliettes were rare and far between. Appearently, they are quite hard and rare, and most "oubliettes" were in fact food storage fascilities or latrines. The few real ones had a minimum of food and water, as well as latrines. Also, I think the extreme stress of solitary confinement and lack of space would probably cause the individual to self-harm, and thus hasten their death. About the inquisition chair, if the spikes are densily packed enough, just like a nail bed, which far from comfortable, does not pierce the skin. The documentary machines of malice showed the guys sitting on the chair, and as long as no pin-pressure was applied, neither the actors nor the manican suffered any injuries.

Where are episode 1 and 2?

Sitting too much is a health issue. Laying down for a long time is a health issue. Standing up too long is a health issue. What good is this body?

We was really F'd up!!!!!

Bamboo growing trough a body

It’s always amazing to me the way we humans can invent new and horrifying ways to torture and kill each other.