To think I was watching DR. Mike's channel and hearing nothing but fluff when I could have been educated on DR. Hope's channel. Better late than never I guess.
I actually think Dr. Mike, despite what he is striving for, is probably dumb enough to step on the wrong toes. If he can be so contentious, he may not end up going as far as he wants to. Bigger people have lost it all by saying the wrong things. Look at Roseanne. A career that spanned decades lost over a Tweet. Dr. Mike is already acting too big for his britches.
Haha I am a PhD MD, doing PhD atm in cancer research and still watch all your videos on my break! Actually thank you for the nice content, it gives a good example of how to explain medical cases and so on in more simplistic matter that people can understand and relate to
i read somewhere that vampire folklore may have originate from the condition called Porphyria... the appearance of vampire described seems like it matches with the cutaneous manifestation of porphyria. - disfigurement, thypertrichosis, hyper or hypopigmentation etc.. also pt with cutaneous porphyria suffers from photosensitivity (hence why they go out at night instead of daytime, or they tend to hide in dark places like a mausoleum or a cave)
In my county the stories came from small villages that were isolated or in mountain areas, people there are extremely religious so in the past when the medicine was not that advanced they blamed everything on the supernatural. Basically there were report of people dying and being buried, then visiting people's houses (for some unexplained reason these people would eventually die, also their blood would be missing). All the stories end with the people burning the body of the suspected strigoi and his victims. I remember when I was young and there was a case similar to this on the news... I herd it only because it was a big deal in my class, we here on a field trip in the mountains in that area so some of my class mates were scaring others and having fun with the story :))
A friend of mine has PMLE. One day she mentioned her allergy to silver and I was like wait, hold on, and gave her a look. She chuckled and said, "No, not a vampire." I'm still suspicious.
I remember there is an episode from the Spanish TV show Olmos y Robles (it's about the adventures of two Spanish rural policemen called corporal Olmos and lieutenant Robles), in which one of the suspects has that kind of illness and people think he's a monster.
You are literally so adorable! The last couple of days I've been watching your videos as I get ready in the morning, and they're so entertaining. Great job, and keep up the great work (when you have the time of course).
Vampires in victorian times were considered to be hideous unholy creatures of the night. Dracula was ugly when his true nature was revealed, but he seemed younger when well fed. Similarly, Lucy's corpse is described as hauntingly beautiful - unnaturally so. Once they stake her she returns to the ill, wasted form she died in. But it more lovely in comparison because she is more human. Of course being Victorian England a lot of it is a metaphor for sexual purity but eh. Point is vampires being pretty wasn't supposed to be a good thing. Someone needs to bring back the old timey vamps, they're much more interesting.
Why am I watching all your videos lmao! Its great to see someone doing medical videos who isnt American. Im in nursing school in Ireland, loving the content!
I liked the idea of blood spilling out of mouth and bigger belly .... and all that giving the impression it's been feeding on blood ;; + it moved; has 'longer teeth' .... That actually sounds like a pretty good reason for people freaking out and believing it might be alive at night or the traits of vampires..... - I especially liked and never even thought about blood spilling out of the corpse's mouth and it making it seem like it's been feeding on blood....
Omg love this channel, I always watch your videos in between a level revision!! The actin/myosin sliding filament theory here was well explained and is useful to think of as a ratchet lol I'm revising even when I'm not revising! Thanks so much for these videos and keep them coming please!
My professor had a theory that vampires were actually people with porphyria ... photosensitivity, loss of motor function (so going to sleep in coffins), thirst for blood ( treatment is heme), etc..
This reminds me of a Spanish TV show called "Olmos y Robles" (it's about two rural policemen called Olmos and Robles), in which they though one person was a moster due to having that ilness.
one of our teachers said that vampires originated from porphyria cutanea tarda, because of the blistering photo sensitivity (they can't go out in the sun or they'll burn), also the fact that people used to cure it by drinking blood, because heme will feedback inhibit the heme synthesis pathway leading to a decrease in the accumulation of porphyrins (such as uroporphyrins).
I coincidentally watched this video the day after completing all my lessons in my online Forensic Science class, so I knew what all the mortis' meant lol
Talks about the pale, good-looking type of vampires and shows a clip of Leslie Nielsen as Dracula hitting his head. That's the type of humour I subscribed for.
Thanks for the nice info. It helps remind me of anatomy class that i took a few years ago. so regarding vampires , people who are sensitive to sunlight does exist, and these guys sometimes are patients of skin disease like Porphyria like amirul ashraf said, or in worse cases, Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP in short). XP patient especially is very sensitive to UV light in the sun where even a brief exposure to sunlight may give them nasty sunburn that will last for a few weeks. not to mention exposure to sunlight can make their skin have irregular darkening and sometimes appear like old people that's exposed to sun for a long time. so these people usually only able to go out during the night, like the girl in Taiyou no Uta (Midnight Sun) have. These people if they wants to go out, needs to be fully covered from head to toe including the sunglasses, or else they has higher rates of getting skin and eye cancer. Their lifespan also doesn't last long, usually only until 20s, unless it was discovered earlier, as some people doesn't know about the severity of the disease until explained to them. so for normal people, these patients that only be seen after the sun is out, might be called vampires by some people, and shunned, which might happen in 18th century as well. and since we're talking vampires, can i add some about werewolf as well? some theories the origin of werewolf is due to glaucoma, or the existence of excess fluid between your eyes, or somewhere in the brain. because it is theorized that some of these people will have nasty migrain when the full moon is out , due to gravity of the moon affecting the fluid in their eyes. and some of them are so severe that is cause people to go on rampage. and you know, when someone go on a rampage, nasty stuff can happens, and people can get killed. so these people who killed someone out of pain then fled to the woods where they then live like an outcast. with no shave and dirty looks, it will be easy to mistook someone as a rabid, especilly if they're too hairy and doesn't act like a normal person when the full moon is out. by, the way, i like Dr Hope's explanation so far, especially for Scrubs and Cells at Work (I noticed this channel due to Scrubs), as most of the time you give clear explanations and gives us good reference to look at (your drawings and your examples are easy to be remembered for me). So keep up the good work. And thanks for the knowledge being shared.
One thing I know for sure: - sick people would get pale (so someone secretly sucking their blood: not too impossible to imagine at the time) - garlic: well, it helps with most such diseases - cross: religion was used as a placebo for a long time and often as part of not giving up (on/for) sick people Those are the things that seem clear to me. Now, mixed with all the stuff that can happen to corpses and all this... I can see people coming up with explanations like vampires and all the rest.
It's the time of the year again haha yay. I kinda have some knowledge of what happens after death. Quite familiar with the latin terms but not in order. Interestingly, it does makes sense when you explained it. Thank you.
Me too! I laughed really hard and was surprised and so pleased to it there at 1:35! Mel Brooks (the director, and he played Van Helsing) is the best, I love all his stuff!
Thank you for this video. I did not watch it for the vampire part, but for what happens to a body after death part. My big brother (a loner) was found in his appartment 3 to 9 days after his death. Although I don't want to see a photo of this, I always wondered what happened to his body in the several days it layed there. Now I have an idea what the medical examiner saw when he arrived and I better understand why the funeral home refused to allow my sister to see any part of his body. Thanks again for this very important video!
Hi Dr. Hope! I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and it made me wonder about vampire legends connected to diseases the supposed victims may have had. For example, in the book, the way Stoker describes Lucy's condition after Dracula has started feeding from her night after night kind of sounds like tuberculosis. She gets really pale and weak and can barely talk. She struggles to breathe and seems to be wasting away. Do you think misunderstood illnesses of the supposed victims of vampires inspired parts of the legend?
I find really fascinating the way everything starts to break down in your body pretty much as soon as you die. And I've seen videos like this before (though they were talking about zombies) so I watched it all while eating chips XD. Excellent video and very interesting topic
Anyone else think it would be really funny if Cells at Work did a special Halloween episode on cells dying? Maybe its just my slightly dark twisty geeky mind...
There is also cutaneous porphyrias that might also be at the basis of the vampire's legend. Cutaneous porphyria are causing sensitivity to the sun and sometimes artificial light, causing burning pain.
I'm definitely going to bring this up during a horn lesson. Right after my teacher starts talking about all the gory stuff he's dealt with in his life (which happens a lot). Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, I'm not a native English writer.
In my previous job I used to work with doctors. What you talk about at 5:49 was explained to me in great detail by one of the doctors while I was having lunch. 😆😆She used the expression "stool transplant" (or the Hungarian equivalent of it) as the remedy to that problem is extracted from the faeces of another person. Unlike the more humane practice of western european hospitals, where they put the matter into pills, in our hospitals they still use tubes through the nose to pump it down into the digestive system. 🍕🍔 bon apetite😜
Oooo interesting I don't know why but when I was listening to this vid my mind went to the idea of preserving the body and mummification ( so in Egypt they had to do everything possible to negate these effects). If I remember well in other parts as well some monks used some type of poison to slowly kill their body and mummy it (sry I don't remember that well I saw the documentary a long time ago)...
This explains a lot of what I saw in the ER, I heard noises for sure and blood coming out of the deceased's mouth. I'm not experienced and I thought that the resuscitation team could revive her but she was unable to make it. Thanks doctor.
That's only part of the explanation, for what a "ghoul" is, or was. Vampirism gained a lot of tracktion with certain illnesses that couldn't be explained, like porphyria, that has symptoms like skin blisters caused by sun exposure. Or rabies as well. There's also the occasional person who was buried alive. This wasn't an amazingly common occurrence but it did happen, specially in pandemic times when plages forced people to pile the "dead" without much protocol to be buried or burned, not knowing someone alive had been mixed in the pile.
One side of me hates you for ruining my favourite fantastic creature. The other side loves you for explaining it so well. I would not have it any other way. Thank you for the great content!
Haven't started the video yet, but I'm taking a wild shot and guessing that this is about Porphyria. EDIT: Interesting perspective of the decomposition process!
Whenever you've said "Rigor mortis", something in my brain kept shouting "Rick and Morty" at me. It sounds so similar...that can't be a coincidence! Anyway thank you again for one brilliant video. This was really revealing and interesting!
I just discovered this channel and I love it.RU-vid recommendet an other channel like yours (Dr Mike) and he looks just like you, but he doesn't have an accent (he is from USA). Anyway, you are so nice and handsome. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Bosnia 🙂
+Dr Hope's Sick Notes It is foolish to assume that vampires aren't real just because you can think of mundane explanations. It is even more foolish to underestimate the intelligence and knowledge of people in the past.
