Bizarre Medical Practices From History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Modern medicine has seen more development in the past 50 years than in all of human history combined. Many long-practiced medical treatments now seem completely bizarre in retrospect - things like putting animal dung on a wound, drinking urine, carving holes in your skull, or drinking medicinal potions made of morphine or mercury. But which practices are considered the most peculiar from all of human medical history? Which practices were once used as medicinal treatments only to be later found incredibly dangerous?
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This made me appreciate modern medicine even more.
In 20-40 years I’ll bet that many of our “modern” medical practices (such as vaccines) will be looked back as being insane!
i apreciate your sense of humour. Dark but nontheless.
Yet quackery like "healing" crystals, "kinsyology", cupping, acupuncture and other "alternative medicines" are still practiced and legal today which is horrifying.
It made me fear anesthesia even more now
If you don't have a medical license you can't loose your license.
that's what I tell all my patients 😉
HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Lose* ❤
If you’re a real doctor and you spell lose like that… you scare me
Lose*
It’s kinda miraculous that anyone survived at all!
😂😂they dident
Its miraculous somebody recorded these whack treatments to reference today😂😂
There’s plenty of absurd modern “alternative medicines” that get wide popularity which suggests just another glitch in human reasoning
The "tying a loose tooth to the doorknob and slamming the door" trick doesn't seem nearly so painful anymore.
... except this time no pussyfooting, really slam it
There's a jar sitting here on my desk with 5 of my teeth I pulled myself in it. The doorknob trick works with teeth in the jaw, but tying the wire to a heavy weight and dropping it is the way to go with offending upper teeth in the skull.
If your tooth was loose enough, that trick was never painful.
It's only when someone forces you to do it to a tooth that's still well attached and not yet ready to come out.
So if it was painful, your tooth wasn't ready yet. 😬🥺
My grandfather used to make us use the doorknob method
I tried it and the door knob came off.
01:53 - Syphilis is caused by a bacteria, not a virus. Malaria is caused by a single cell parasite, not a virus either.
True
I came here to say the same thing, Plasmodium and Treponema are not viruses, lol!
that is why this is a video made for us to comment on, and he's loughing all the way to the bank. The big pharma crime association with the medical (not all but a big majority) made health an industry, for profit that is, even those in publc one payer systems. That drives those gouvernements banrkupt and push for privatisation , so they push their modern quaqery and lazy assesments of diseases > drug a "practice" that compare to the dark ages' ones. It is a miracle that we live longer , or at least those that lived when there were less poisons pushed as drugs, and antibiotics and vaccines were not for profit as today. The young folks today , I predict a proliferation of "autoimmune" diseases, syndroms like "long something" and as long as the doctors will continue to blame the pple for the diseases, the fatalities at young age will increase in the so called "developped countries"..
No u
I was gonna say the same thing, but you beat me to it. 🧬🔬🧫
“Nothing cures you like butt-chugging turpentine” is now my motto.
same 🤣that had me laughing out loud.
DR. Antonio Moniz was actually awarded the Nobel Prize for coming up with the lobotomy procedure. That's crazy to think about today.
They bronzed his ice pick I heard.
Along with Walter Rudolf Hess
Yeah, I bet they regret that now.
@Sara Grant I'm sure they do.
Not crazy. It was something groundbreaking. Just thinking about having parts of your brain removed and you can still be alive is already crazily amazing. We can't see history through the eyes of all we know now and judge them in base on that. We have to see the context and knowledge of that time ONLY.
I wonder what societies 150 years from now will think of our current medical practices.
One day they’ll laugh at use for using chemotherapy.
Me too!!!
@Evil Queen Regina Ashley:
So true!!! We are constantly evolving and growing.
@Evil Queen Regina Ashley "history doesn't repeat itself, but the trends do."
They'll be horrified at how doctors now push antidepressants on everybody as a cure-all for everything.
As to the Tapeworm thing, I would relate to my life science students that women would go to a Doctor to get a script for them prior to their wedding day so that they could fit into their wedding dresses then go back after the wedding to get another script to purge the worm and stop losing weight. One of my students actually related a story that her grandmother told her that her mother got a script for her in preparation for her wedding.
As to the radium thing, when I was teaching radiological controls for the US Navy we had a student bring in a water cooler that they found in his grandmother's attic that had a pamphlet with it touting the cooler ability of "restoring that healthful natural radioactivity to your water". We tested some of the scrapings of the ceramic liner with our instruments and yes it was highly radioactive. So radioactive he called home, told his parents and they had us safely dispose of it.
As an orthodontic assistant I’m very grateful for modern medical technology
Sweet! A MA? I had to take a break from IONM for a bit. I agree modern medicine is incredible.
Radium as a prescription was absolutely insane.
Uranium glass was used in dishware made with up to 25% uranium. It was used in the USA until the 1940’s when uranium was needed for the war effort. I hope the military wasn’t using it for prescriptions!
@@jeanne-marie8196 Uranium is far less radioactive than radium.
Oh just wait until you hear about giving amphetamine analogs (yes, I’m talking about Adderal and other related meds) to children who have attention disorders.
A video on how women going into labor/giving birth were treated throughout history might be a good one. Terrifying topic, really.
Edit: Clarification
This is actually pretty interesting and we had to learn about parts of this in my med school
@Mike Baxter no one cares about you mike
@Mike Baxter look they didn't ask for a video about Mike Baxter, they asked for a video on birth.
actually, it's pretty interesting. I understand you can't relate, but that doesn't mean no one cares
@Mike Baxter 🤟
I would like to see the history of weird surgeries.
I highly recommend The Butchering Art, by Lindsey Fitzharris. And I am endlessly fascinated by the operation by Robert Liston that had a 300% mortality rate.
@@marisad292 it's a suggestion for a video lol. Not a library visit.
@@healthsciencevideos9346 it was very obvious to me that it was a video suggestion, but I also enjoy recommending relevant books when I can. BTW, loved how you made a library visit sound like a bad thing, lol.
Good idea
America's obsession with infant male circumcision. The US is the only developed nation which has made a routine practice of it.
Bits of expired mice😂🤣
That reminds me. I have an appointment with my barber for a haircut, and my annual blood letting!😳
I’m a surgeon, but I’ve never had anyone ask me to give them a haircut.
Pov: loving history, and wanting to time travel
Also pov: remembering that modern medicine is practically brand new to the world
My FIL is a retired mortician and Funeral home owner. He used Formaldehyde on the kids poison ivy. 😳
Ok but did it work? It was only a bit topically I assume?
@@mandy3486 Yes, topically and it did! My husband said it was the only thing that helped. 🤣 Unfortunately my FIL got blood/bone cancer over 20 years ago and we all feel it was being around the funeral home and living in it as a child (multi generational business). Thankfully he survived that. His bones are still brittle though. He just fell and fractured his neck. Don’t play around with formaldehyde kids!
Hell I'm old enough to remember my cuts and scrapes being treated with mercurichrome- which has mercury in it.
I'm that old, too, but I remember seeing it mainly on other kids. My parents used Anbesol. It stung like the devil, but at least it wasn't mercurichrome.
Me too
That stuff stung like the dickens. My dad would draw a face out the injury using that little glass wand.
Was it reddish in a small brown bottle?
Say it isn't so
I just found this channel and I am ecstatic!! So glad you guys are doing this!!
I remember. during US Army Basic Training, 1982, our Drill Sergeants told us all on several; occasions that at any point during training we devolved athlete's foot, all we needed to do instead of going to "sick call" was to simply to pee on our feet when we showered, and presto, the athlete's foot would go away..
I never fell for it, but through out my 12 years in the Army I'd heard this many times
My dad sd in Veit-Nam they were told if they got jungle rot to urinate on their bare feet often and it helped. I would think in the shower it would wash it off though lol😂
Drinking Radium, that's absolutely bananas. 🤣
Poor little mice.
Reminds me of the jokes from A Million Way to Die in the West lol
"Hey Doc I have a tooth ache"
"Oh you need a Donkey kicking"
Future generations will probably look back at us like we were insane for treating cancer with radiation though.
A+ video!
Such a fascinating and unique topic with great visuals and narration.
It is an honor to be fan of this channel, especially before it becomes a phenomena.
Soon A-List celebrities will tell their fans they "discovered" this channel on TH-cam.
Having to Live with one of the worse sickness can be exhausting but I still have to believe I can be healed.
@Casey Muller That’s nice, I have Been diagnosed with a cancer and I will definitely need her help and would also want to know how to get in touch with her. I hope she cures other sickness also?
@Casey Muller Thank you a lot you are a life saver. I have found her website on the internet.
Whenever I watch weird history videos it reminds me of how lucky I am to have been born around this time because holy sh*t people were wild back then
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Star Trek: The Voyage Home where Bones is astounded by the barbarity of modern medicine practiced by surgeons in... the 1980s. Just you wait kids, what you think now is cool and leading edge will be seen by your great grandchildren as outlandish, insane, and cruel. It's gonna happen, it always does.
Always learning something knew from our favorite history professor 😃
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Maybe you should have paid more attention in English? 😂
They learning your words.
This is just TOO weird for me! Guess I don't have the stomach for it.
As always, this was great
I guess painful hemorrhoids have always been a thing… I will cross that bridge when I get there, but for now it’s funny.
😂😂😂😂
How about the history of leeches & maggots in medicine? Both are still used…
I'm just very happy that I'm alive in the 21st century. For too many people in history life really was "nasty, brutish, and short."
Parafin oil is still used by body-builders who want larger biceps, also in fewer cases for glutes and pecs. They regret all regret doing it because it is non-reversible and (As described in the video) causes extreme pain, cramps and granulomas etc., usually after 8-10 years.
Thanks for this! ⚕ #WeirdHistory #MedicalHistory #Medical
Think about the people 100 years from now watching a video similar to this about our current medical treatment.
I don't feel so bad about taking the cheese grater to my foot calluses now.
C'mon, get with the times, use an orbital sander.
I use 80 grit sand paper that helps
Forbidden parmesan cheese
About twenty years ago, comfortably in the twenty-first century, I met a lady who had recently taken up smoking in order to lose weight. Having finally given up the habit permanently (so far) a few years earlier, I advised her that she would probably lose that particular bet. For one, while it's true that people who quit smoking tend to gain weight, the opposite is not nearly as likely. Except of course that if one is subjected to chemotherapy or radiation therapy to treat the cancer it's likely that the patient will lose weight prior to dying a painful death. I lost touch with her, but hope the intervention worked.
"If it glows in the dark, it must be good for you" - Terry A. Davis
My doctor told me a cat's purr would help my depression. It actually worked.
Its the vibration. If you have a sore arm or whatnot sleep with cat and let him purr next to your arm and it will heal faster.
@@pegs1659 Not just the vibrations. A cat's purr is on a frequency the brain finds soothing.
Just the bond itself is good for you.
@@Bonesph Any animal bond. Once I had a opossum that would come by house become friendly with me. Best time was when she came by with her babies and she happily let me pet them. Still to this day the opossums that come by I swear are her offspring because none of them are afraid of me.
Nope. However, there IS evidence that having a dog actually eases depression somewhat. Weird but true. Dogs are far more affectionate than cats or any other animal you could keep. Birds are too noisy.
An old folk remedy for earache is to pour the patient's urine into the hurting ear. Easy to pass off as quackery, but it actually works.
I currently have an ear infection. I think I'll just use the ear spray that the doctor prescribed, thanks...
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Please do a video on history of fire fighting
And another on history of mining
Poor mice! I don't want them in my apartment, but I feel so sad for them.
I agree. Poor little things. The people living in Georgian times used mouse skins for eyebrows.
They are pretty damn cute, but they breed so incredibly fast and cause all sorts of problems. Don't let it become your neighbors problem ay?
Pet mice are cute, tame and playful, and their wild relatives are cute too. They can't help trying to survive. They lived in fields and forests before humans took over.
If mice are so supposedly creepy, then why are there so many cute little mice on greeting cards?
the larve of vcarious parasites including tape worm can migrate to other parts of the body. Often the heavy tissue in the legs where there is lots to eat, but can also include the brain.
Thanks for making me even more terrified of parasites. I saw the show "monsters inside me" as a kid and have been freaked since. Time to reinforce that fear hell yea 👌
When I did my medical training as a lab tech they told me urine was sterile.
It usually is when it’s in the bladder, once outside it usually isn’t.
Why did I click on it? Oh yeah it's weird history
You're amazing dude i like your channel God bless you and bless your family 😊
I may have mentioned this in another video but powdered emeralds was a popular plague cure in the Middle Ages.
I remember when I was a little girl, my mother used to put "Mercurichrome" on our minor cuts. I was horrified later on to find out that there was mercury in this. It didn't do any harm to us apparently, but you can't get it today.
As long as you didn’t ingest it.
I remember that crap too. It burned like heck.
My grandpa still swears by that and metholiate... I think that's how it's spelled
yes, it likely DID do harm to you. I know a lot about medicine, given that I have a degree.
No, mercury can be absorbed through the skin. @@johnp139
@ 7:45 Dog poo is a good home remedy for chapped lips. While it actually doesn't do anything for your lips, it does help keep you from licking them. 🤣
😂😂
Ancient Egyptians used fly poop for medicine purposes??? I don't think I've ever seen fly poop before. It's too tiny!
I enjoy your humor and voice.
I’m glad science has gotten to a place where we can finally blindly and without question follow the advice of the medical field.
Hahaha.... Oh man.
Exactly.
Lmao
I should hope you are being sarcastic!
Omg !! It's hard to believe many of those where used back in the day. Out of all those I've only heard about the tapeworm diet. Dat would be heavy hell-no for those treatments !!
This commentary is great! 😂
‘TURBO POISONOUS’ ☠️ had me laughing so hard
some of these are crazy!!!
The process of a lobotomy was horrible. The directions were to stick an ice pick past the side of the eye, through the eye socket into the frontal lobe to reduce the incision point. Then the doctor would move the pick back and fourth and side to side while asking the patient to recite poetry or a song. They would continue this until the patient could no longer remember or correctly speak what was asked of them and then stop.
There were many different approaches. Sometimes it's a hole just drilled into your head.
@@SaltyAsTheSea Yes there were several but the ice pick method was the 'official' method by the lobotomy inventor Dr. Walter Freeman
You make me laugh. I think you for that. O man... to me it would be something like "the dog biscuits but not the kind in the Box". I'd have to think twice about that one. No I wouldn't cuz I wouldn't do it!!!
very entertaining and educational.
"the patron saint of hemorrhoids sounds like someone you meet at an airport chili's" is probably the funniest thing I've heard on this channel so far
"Butt chugging" is not a phrase I ever thought I would hear.
"Butt-chugging turpentine", Great band name! :)
Thank God (or whoever,whatever you believe In) for modern day science!
More like pseudoscience
@@LassieFarm Hi Steffen. Do you not believe in modern day science?
@@latonyagreen-warner7402 I believe it exists. But that doesn't make it trustworthy. 100 years ago they felt just as sure about "science"
@@LassieFarm True. But in modern times, we have scientific instruments that can separate pseudo science from factual science. Now we can use these instruments to prove or disapprove theories/hypothesis. ( I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm just bored🤣)
@@latonyagreen-warner7402 yep it's kinda like religion. And likewise you are brainwashed by all those medical TV shows. Made to believe that doctors are heroes. ER, saint elsewhere, grey's anatomy. All propogangda 👍
6:40 If these poor people only knew...
Back in 95, when I was 16, I was advised by an Army doctor to start smoking. I had low blood pressure and was overweight. Yeah.
I thought the “honor” of wiping the Royal butt was one of the weirder jobs. Now, we have, what? the Royal enema inserter??? I’ll be avoiding that chair, well, like the plague!!
Maybe the turpentine enema would work if a lighted match was used.
What's the piece of music playing right at the start of the video?
it’s crazy to think about how ppl had to endure excruciating experiences for things we just take a pill for or apply ointment to now
I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and suffer terrible intractable chronic pain. Bee stings are the ONLY thing that helps like a strong opiate, but is regulated and controlled more strictly! I'll be on heavy opiates for the rest of my life. My insurance pays $4,099 per MONTH, but won't okay a bee session which is thousands cheaper and lasts longer! If you aren't allergic to bee stings, find a practitioner in your area. It hurts about as much as a very small tattoo and the results are amazing. 😊
Keep in mind at any time you can become allergic to anything though! Carry an epi pen if you can get a script. My moms God father had bees and would regularly get himself stung where his arthritis was bad. He lived into his 90’s. He also ate a fresh raw clove of garlic daily w raw honey.
World's best toothache medicine is superhot chilis such as Carolina Reapers. Initially the pain is worse than the toothache, but when it wears off the toothache is gone.
Sounds like the same principle as using creams with capsaicin to treat muscle and joint pain. They can burn pretty bad, but dull the original pain.
Is this literally just getting your body to release endorphins(pain killers) so it doesn't hurt? Sounds like an ibuprofen would be a little easier, but then again where's the fun in that, ay? 😊
Oh Im getting comfy for THIS😂
I'm under 40 (ok, JUST under, but still) and I have mercury fillings in some of my teeth. Sadly, a lot of this weird stuff isn't as long ago as we like to think.
Here I'm eating and the video comes right out with the dead mice in mouth and rubbing a cut in half one all over 😂
In the 1920s and 1930s, for seven years, my Mom took arsenic as prescribed by her doctor.
The rat part REALLY caught me off guard wtf
you can add a whole bunch of present medical "practices" that , if we take in the consideration the "for profit only" feature and the " I don't care if it brings harm as it is well written in the disclaimer" general idea behind the majority of drugs pushed by the complexe pharma industrial, that has the majority of medecins criminally associated. Alleged. (that for YT algorithm).
They've been using different people and they shouldn't. THIS is the narrator.
Enema with a mix of radium and mercury is the secret to eternal life
Should totally do a video on how Galen was over 2000 years ahead of his time.
I bet there are more than ten bizarre medical practices thatvweren't shown here.
Are we going to see a new Timeline any time soon?
I would like to hear more on leaching.
OK now do Crystal-healing gemstone people.
The Patron Saint of Hemorrhoids, Saint Farace. OMG! I’m cracking up! I am still recovering and in pain from a Hemorrhoid Ectomy a week ago! Boy, did I need a laugh! I am still laughing! So Funny! Thank you!😂
Lyrica for nerve pain, that’s quackery.
Tylenol for herniated discs.
Advil for torn ligaments
All modern quack-tastic 🐄 💩
Agreed!
scary stuff !!!
What is the music in the beginning of the video?
My friend I love your channel sensational job as always as I said before I would like to see more of scary jails and medieval torcher
Man, that's something. Weird and strange.
WOW! I didn't realize that labotomies were at the height of their prime within the last century!!! I thought this was, at the very least, a Victorian era procedure. Learn something new every day!
I actually learned that because of the DeJarnette Sanitarium (the old Western State Hospital)in my hometown. Joseph Dejarnette still used lobotomy as a form of eugenics for the mentally ill. He was director of WSH until 1943.
Lobotomies are still done today. But done with extreme precision. You use cortical mapping to elicit responses from the brain you want to keep intact. I wonder if shock therapy is also on here because that’s a part of my job, but in a very controlled environment.
@@morganschiller2288 you are the only person I've come across that realizes this. I've even had person call me ignorant, a liar, misinformed, and of being a troll. Like telling people about lobotomies is some emotionally damaging propaganda with some sinister end game.
@@morganschiller2288 ECT was still being done at least into the 90’s for extreme depression, like so bad they were admitted as an inpatient. It was first developed after someone with depression and seizure disorder found their depression was improved after a seizure.
Don’t sit on that chair. Lol
I would like to hear more about tuberculosis
The hemorrhoid one made me do a scream similar Tom's from Tom & Jerry.
My grandmother tried giving me an enema when I was an infant because I had constant issues constipation. My mom was not amused when she caught her trying to do it. 😂
Wheezing at his pronunciation of Fiacre 😂😂😂😂😂 for anyone wondering it’s pronounced like “fear-cr-ah”
How do you make these videos without copyright. I have been trying for days to make similar history videos, but copyright is everywhere. What should I do?
no lie, i caught a tapeworm and lost 70 lbs in 6 months. the fact it i could only eat once a day at bedtime then had super diarrhea in the morning probably had something to do with it. finally went to the dr and got it taken care of and proceeded to gain back the weight over the next six years
You can kill tapeworm by eating chewing tobacco.
OMG Yuk!!! Thank God you survived!!