My Greek great grandma instilled this in all of us. It was so ingrained that when my mom was 5 and fell out of bed and broke her collarbone, she immediately asked for Vaporub.
As a Southerner, y'all aren't even going to mention Yellow Fever? It's so contagious that if a grave was opened of someone who passed from it, then it could start a new outbreak. It decimated workers on the Panama Canal but was worse, I think, in the 1800's. Ready for a new Timeline series! Keep up the good work!
I don't know why my comment earlier didn't go through. Yellow fever can't spread person to person directly. It definitely did cause devastating epidemics, but it's spread by mosquitoes, which would not bite a dead body.
Jumping ahead to COVID was a bit of a missed opportunity, as the AIDS outbreak was very significant in terms of fear, lives lost, and how it affected policy. I kept waiting for it to get mentioned.
Always interesting... Although I expected to hear mention of Polio. As a child growing up in the 1950's, I remember everyone being in terror of contracting it.
Polio was a huge scare. I went to school with a girl that had contracted polio. She recovered but one leg was shorter than the other. She limped and many people don't realize the problems that can cause such as pain in the foot and leg, hip pain, weakness or numbness in the leg and feet and others.
My Mom is from the last town in the US (Wytheville Virginia), to have a major Polio epidemic. The Summer and Fall of 1952, a few years before I was born. They were out of town and everyone stayed home except my Grandpa, he did the shopping and everything else and avoided crowded stores. No one in my family got it. My Dad's family took similar precautions and they avoided it but they often heard ambulances heading down country roads to mostly get people who had come down with Polio Mylitus
Can say it was also a good video and yeah that disease really was bad though sadly either the makers of this video were short on time or the disease really wasn't seen as an impact compared to the other disease mentioned like Spanish Flu or the COVID-19 pandemic we had or any other viruses that are going around today is another reason it wasn't mentioned.
Sorry, I had to laugh with first hand understanding. In my case a few years after I left and it took all my stuff, I found the right woman for me. Now 30 years later I'm healed. Good luck.
1:25 Inability to feel pain in the extremities is a major concern for those with diabetes. A person can get a cut on the pads of their foot and not feel it, then it can become a serious concern when it gets infected (and they can't see it).
I have t2. I can see and check my feet... I do this every couple days as it is a huge fear of mine to cop an infection. Shoes are my friend, even though I'd rather be barefoot😊
@@90randomgames Just makes sure you can properly check your feet, I have seen many people get too casual about it (and then parts of their feet are gone...).
There's two history books that totally deal with this subject (among others) - 1491 and 1493. Fantastic eye openers. The part about how the Amazon was teaming with life but then devastated by disease is especially eye-opening.
Archeologists found a body that predates Jebus by about 20 years, and that person had Hansen's disease modern-day leprosy as well as tuberculosis. At that time, Jewish people practiced secondary burial , and they put the body in a tomb to let the flesh decompose then came back a year later and collected the bones in a bone box. This person's family and friends never came back more than likely they just left a warning in front of his rock cut tomb, letting everybody know this person had leprosy.
My paternal grandfather died in the 1918 ‘flu epidemic. He was, according to my late father, a little unwell one evening, so went to bed early; the next day, he was too weak to get up, passing away late that night. It frightened the family but, luckily, no one else took ill.
Asia held the majority of the human population. Asians also live in close proximity to wild animals that carried viruses. These viruses would mutate to infect domestic animals and/or humans.
Settle down Donnie. This video isn't an exhaustive study of diseases and pandemics. The Swine Flu of 2009 started in Utah and many animal diseases like avian flu start up here in the states every few years. None of this is to defend China, but simply to point out wherever animals and people are in close proximity you increase the chances of novel diseases springing up into the human population.
I had managed to avoid it for almost 4 years, but it finally found me in December of 2023. Had a "mild" case, but still feel like I was hit by a truck--just no energy.
@@nickim6571 My fiance got it from a convention so it was accidentally brought home to us. The lightheadedness, fevers and body pains really suck but our case is definitely mild and we seem to be about through it. Glad you recovered and are okay!
@@artemis2520 Thank you! The positive results showed up for him and not me but the exact same things are happening to me so I'm just kinda assuming. I'm glad you're feeling better!
Well known British cold/ sore throat remedy...hot lemon juice with glycerine and honey, Manuka is the best, because of its anti bacterial properties. My personal favourite for a badly blocked nose, if menthol fails, try eating something spicy, you won't feel the full force of the spicy food, but it will start to unblock your nose. Hot Indian food, chillis and hot snacks, are a good thing to try. You will still need to cool your mouth down afterwards, even though it may not have its usual tingle, but your nose should start unblocking.
A hot totty? Did I spell that right? Two shots, honey and a peppermint. Warm this up and cured! But vapor-rub, oh yeah, that cures broken bones in some homes!
Yersinia pestis DNA has been found in skeletons dating from 3000 to 800 BC, across West and East Eurasia. The very first plague was also way earlier, more like 540 ad
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating Cinncinati Chilli on hot dogs*†...while watching this Weird History video! *From the Weird History video "Every Style of Hot Dog We Could Find Across the US" †Hot Dogs are also on the Weird History videos "What Popular Foods Originally Tasted Like" and "How the Backyard BBQ Became an American Pastime"
10:57 Super Bowl Champion Prince Amukamara worked three to four days a week for DoorDash during the pandemic to raise money for his foundation. (Others Foundation). He has sisters named Promise and Princess.
8:50 There is actually a book called Sherlock Holmes and The Pandemic of Death (2021), which is fan fiction. My surprise introduction to fan fiction came from a "Sherlock Holmes" book written by a collection of Sherlock Holmes fans.
As a child in the 60s visiting various grandparents in hospital, they still had 8 and 12 bed rooms. As I kid it was frightening to see 12 old men in various states of undress, wanting me the little blonde girl to come say Hi! I climbed up beside Grandpa and stayed there. 15 yrs later I was in Nursing school at some of the same hospitals, and those " ward rooms" were gone down to 4 bed rooms.
Hot blackcurrant and brandy will stop a cold in its tracks. In a mug put 1 measure brandy, 1 measure blackcurrant cordial, top with near boiling water, sip. It has to be full sugar blackcurrant cordial, the low sugar or sugar free versions don’t work
Sarah Bernhardt , was a French stage actress who starred in some of the French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Would Be Nice To Have a Video on Her Life.
1:07 The Elephant Man (1980) is a film about a severely deformed man in London. It is a David Lynch film. (he did respond to me three or four times on one of his facebook groups actually).
I am going to watch the videos: x How You Could Have Survived The Black Death (1st Recommendation, second time watching) x What Hygiene Was Like During The Black Plague (2nd Recommendation, 2nd Time Watching) x The Most Ruthless Things Hernan Cortes Did (2nd time watching) x A Day In the Life Living With the Plague
The Spanish Flu started in The USA. It was spread through Europe by American soilders who had it. It actually originated in the South, most likely Tennessee
They don’t give to everybody . I’m senior and disabled but they wouldn’t give it to me. It’s not like they hand it over. It goes by your town and if they participate. Mine doesn’t. I said to the guy so I’m suppose to starve? He hung up! Don’t waste your time
10:39 In numerology, the day a person is born during the month is their Birthday Number. For this calendar, the Birthday Number is 7. If the calendar day is in double digits (i.e. 24), each digit is added together, like how 24 is 2 + 4 = 6 (Birthday Number is 6).
Have a high temperature? 1 or 2 shots of vodka with black pepper befor bed, make sure you're nice and warm. You gonna probably spend the night sweating profusely, but you gonna be back to normal next day.
Camomile tea is great for phlegm cough and colds. It has a list of healthy things it does for you. Also mint and ginger tea for Your stomach. My family uses medicine and tea both.
Leprosy does NOT lead to loss of limbs. Repeated infections cause loss of bone, which results in the fingers and toes getting shorter but not falling off. The fingernails are even retained. The last outbreak of plague occurred in the late 1800’s, but wasn’t as bad as previous ones simply because sanitation and a somewhat clearer understanding of how it spread existed. The first confirmed cases of syphilis happened back in first century AD, long before 1494 and was discovered to have existed in Herculaneum and Pompeii. The Spanish flu is hardly the most deadly pandemic in history- that status belongs to the bubonic plague. Big difference between 75 million and 60 percent of an entire continent’s population. Great video but let’s get facts correct before making a video please.
My dad always put moonshine, peppermint sticks ,and rock candy, in a jar and Let it sit for three or four days you get sick you had a cold or the flu you had to take a couple of drinks of it and it would burn whatever you had out in a couple days
The first known outbreak of Spanish flu was in central Kansas in November 1917. Some of the remains found at Hurculanium & some other ancient sites showed telltale signs of syphilis. It was widespread in the Roman Empire. l Influenza & leprosy are on the list, but malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, & smallpox aren't?!
1:30 On the film Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Doctor Victor removes limbs from his poor patients so he can use them to create a new human! It's another The Rich vs. The Poor battle.
