The Bizarre Medical Practices Of Britain's Dark Age Monks | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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- Alan Titchmarsh reveals the secrets of the Cistercian monks who lived at Fountain's Abbey in North Yorkshire over 800 years ago and visits its neighbor - the spectacular Studley Royal Water Garden. Anneka Rice is at Mottisfont in Hampshire and Britain's last working water-driven spade mill. Miriam O'Reilly joins a bat watch on the South Downs, and Dan Jones treads in the footprints of Giants in County Antrim.
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Man I sure do love the bizarre medical practices of Britain's Dark Age monks.
Really fascinating documentary. I'm really happy that I got to visit the Outer Hebrides and see the puffins on Staffa and Fingall's Cave.
Great program! So much good information here, and all of it thoroughly interesting. Very well done, thank you for making this and making it available to us here!
As someone with hemochromatosis a common genetic disease amongst Northern Europeans, bloodletting, or modern phlebotomy, has saved my life. Maybe don't be so quick to mock.
ya tell that to President George Washington.
@@heyphilphil While we have the advantages of modern medicine, even back then, they understood about pressure bandages. Not being American, I know nothing of the history but it sounds like it might have been intentional.
You're talking about a very specific genetic disorder with blood being removed in a very particular manner and amount for a specific legitimately medical reason. Bloodletting as performed historically had absolutely zero medical purpose or value and virtually without exception caused significant harm with no benefit. The entire concept as practiced was based entirely on a nonsensical understanding of biology and medicine
To put it simply you're comparing apples and oranges. Bloodletting as it was carried out historically is something that absolutely deserves to be called out for its pointless stupidity. Particularly considering nobody ever actually improved in their condition after it was done, yet they kept doing it anyway
Oh grow up. It's not about you. It is, in fact, very much not about you at all.
I suffer also thanks to my dad's German DNA.
It’s funny being so excited for bats I grew up and Texas and you see em all the time. Every night pretty much.
Bloodletting not only encourages new blood production which can combat infection in lieu of actual antibiotics, if done frequently enough can actually cleanse the body of 'forever chemicals' and heavy metals in our bodies we gather all the time.
I use to be a Phlebotomist, and found that Fact fascinating, I used it to encourage people to donate blood, especially Men, since women have menstrual periods, and nature takes care if that for them, AMAZING, what the HUMAN Body Can Do... We Are TRULY a Work of ART......
@@kevinjones8745 Donating blood would be a more practical method in a modern age. As opposed to the traditional methods of poking holes in someone.
It’s so fascinating to me to find that practices that were believed in then, and then later scoffed at and mocked for being absurd, now have a scientific basis for actually working!! They had no idea how it worked, but the practice continued because they learned that it did in fact work. Now we know why.
Leaches can be beneficial though
25:25 That painted room is pretty darn cool I must say, it all looks so real
A BEAUTIFUL Place.....💯
Lovely documentary! ❤️
Thanks.
😇💜Thank YOU for sharing this History with us.🤗💜
They needed to clean their hearts, NOT their blood.
Not all r evil. Monks n nuns have sacrificed so much and has done so much for others like education, orphanage house, even monastry gave jobs during medieval times.
Yes there are some who felt prey to human lust but we cant blame as we r all human
@@sonthems45229 We are to FOLLOW JESUS, NOT a statue of a woman, Good works will not get one in Heaven. EXODUS chapter 20, and, 1 Timothy 2:5.
The water garden "Moon" is more like the "All seeing eye". Not saying these "Monk's" were apart of the secret religions cabal but I wouldn't be surprised. The original Illuminate was broken up but survivors not jail or killed made new sectors of it was originally, so could be inspiration from them. Makes me wonder so fascinating.
Jeffrey Epstein was probably into that stuff
Those medieval monks already had quick matches?
The ad that comes in for history hit Alex loftlen is soooo freaking loud every history hit video I have to turn it down when she speaks
So where was the medical knowledge I’m so fucking confused
I use Google search for my medical knowledge... rather than the Absolute History Channel on TH-cam.💊
@@spideywhiplash I think the commenter is confused about the title of the video vs the content of the video. I don’t think the person was trying to obtain medical knowledge from the video.
I watched this last night, and had the same exact thought. Maybe, "Monastic Orders, Britain's Bats , Gardening and Spade Making " would have been more accurate... I see why they didn't go for that though.
So they went from bat bomb to complete protection.
Such distain for the origin of human milk.
Absolute history is abslutely fab, but is the ear numbing loud music really necessary? It drowns out the voices quite often. South Africa 🇿🇦
We gave up the wisdom of the past for the pragmatism of the future.
omg
the original Caucasian “Emo”s,
that’s hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Oi you got a loicense for that bagged bat?
Britain sucks!
Wot, you mean Charles do you ? He flew in there himself I say
we have a bat roost under our roof. these animals are fascinating and entertaining to have around, but they s*** an awful lot. we are always a bit concerned about our pets or ourselves getting infected with something. so we are constantly cleaning the ground along that one side of the house where they enter and exit and apparently hold their bums out to poop. I can't even imagine what more they're leaving behind under the roof itself.