It became quite clear neither hack had ever even heard of the Hippocratic oath. Bearing in mind they were the only ones that even came close to a doctor and decided to have a duel...
"he died of natural causes". "six bullets wounds is natural causes?". "well naturally you'll die from six bullet wounds...". Can't remember which old western movie I saw that in but i've been trying to find for years. Such a funny statement.
If your anything like the vets I have visited, I’d rather take my chances with the cowboy doctors. Vets in the us are about money not helping animals. So in a way, the doctors of the time were probably on par with them, taking people’s money for bs treatment.
Yep but they didnt know about microbes yet Knowledge of airborne pathogens fidnt come for quite some time, not sure exactly if before or around this time
@@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.
@@louf7178 oh cool-I guess that makes sense doesn't it, ice can have a numbing effect to a degree like local anaesthetic, thanks for that! I've been thinking about ops without anaesthetics lately as I'm not long out of hospital from a 2 week stay because I badly broke my leg, needed a metal pin with 3 plates inserted, I've 2 smashed heels and needed a skin graft because they made a massive cut to relieve the pressure, without anaesthetics id probably have either lost my leg from the massive swelling (I had compartment syndrome) or my leg would have healed extremely badly. The amount of surgical procedures we are able to have now because of anaesthetics is amazing, we're extremely lucky
@@teethgrinder83 Yes, it was an enlightening reality. I wish well for your operation. And yes, modern medicine and surgery is quite amazing to me. I almost feel the level is tricky point of overload and over-confidence. I definitely feel personal discretion is needed amist the volume of patients, liability, interpretation etc...
@@louf7178 thanks a lot, I'm healing well now I just have to stay off my leg for another month or so, I'm lucky to have my partner helping me put when she's not working I get what you mean, some procedures have become so routine I think Dr need to be careful about becoming blasé about them yet I know their professionals. What bothers me more is many of us, especially in the developed world, have become so used to modern medicine curing or healing so many of our problems we've started forget about prevention-the fact we can have triple bypass surgery for example and heart attacks aren't so deadly makes it easier to forget for some how much of a problem it still is. But humans are great at finding it difficult to see long term goals and so for a lot of people (and to a degree I include myself) things like a good diet and exercise just isn't important. Some time soon this will have to change I think
Contrary to popular belief Union Army gave its patients anesthesia for amputations. Unfortunately, the other things done were questionable at times, such as "bleeding" and "blistering". There was always the wonder drug "Calomel" or Mercury Cl! I am a nurse. I don't ever recall seeing that on my medicine cart! Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
I get disappointed when I watch one of those videos and it isn't his narration. He's one of the best and reminds me of what's his face from the beginning of Fallout NV
Blistering with chili paste might have had some value since capsaicin, a chemical in chili peppers, is now put into topical ointments to treat painful conditions. Capsaicin is said to block substance P which is part of the cause of pain.
I love this channel. As someone that loves history i never realised what the average person living in said pastimes would've experienced on a daily basis and now i have a fair idea. So thank you Weird History and keep doing what you're doing 😊❤
Seriously? You love History but yku need a fucking youtube Video to get an Idea of the Past? Thats a huge contradiction. I bet you just played Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed once and now you think youre totally into History 😂
@@biancastepney1517 hey if you want your kids to be born with genetic conditions like blindness deformed bodies and diseases that cause an early and painful death that will make them hate themselves then you do you
@@supremesoldier354 nah I just want them to not be forcibly sterilized because the people in power decided that racial minorities are impurities on the human species :)
Im just wondering if the wild west breeded more of experimental medicine while the east coast used the more chill traditional medicine that wouldnt maim you
1:19 That is not a photo of a doctor and a patient. That is a photo of a mortician and a corpse during the Civil War being inbalmbed to be sent back home to family.
1 dollar in 1850 is 33 dollars in todays money. 33 dollars = 29e. Visiting doctor in finland costs about 20-25e. So seeing a doctor in american old west costs more than seeing one in todays finland :D
D.A. Risse exactly yet some people expect others to pay having no idea what “free healthcare” means. Someone is paying, nothing is free. I have great healthcare that I pay for myself.
Good Day! Thank You for your excellent video! I really enjoy your channel. May I suggest a topic for a new episode? Being a Steamboat operator on the Mississippi River in the middle of the 19th century. Operating, and being a passenger on a Steamboat in the 1850's, on the Mississippi River System was quite hazardous. Groundings, sinkings, fires, boiler explosions, lack of any safety equipment, and races between competing boats were quite common. The steamboats though enabled the rapid settlement & growth in the midwest & the southeast. The explosion & fire on the Steamboat Sultana, a "Troop Ship" at the end of the Civil War, caused the death of the more passengers than the sinking of the Titanic.
Eugene Kosinski Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain was a dreamboat pilot on the Mississippi - there is a wealth of info on him. I love that steamboat experience!
People we certainly tougher back then, I couldn't have coped with these 'treatments'. I can understand why they drank so much whiskey back then, I think I'd want to be wasted too.
People also drank so much whiskey (and previously rum and previously lager and previously ale) because there wasn't exactly clean, good-tasting water readily available Soft drinks wouldn't really be a thing for a while either, and when they did start, they were more remedy then casual drinking
@@OatmealTheCrazy That was true for areas in Europe. But it was low-alcohol beer. U can't get hydrated from 80 proof alcohol! And it was prob higher back then. They drank to get fucked up, just like now.
Reminds me of that time as Arthur Morgan when he got tb and went to the doctor and paid $16 which was alot back then just for him to tell him to take it easy
The duel with pistols sounds like a great way to resolve today's health insurance disputes. Charging a fee for spectators should cover any funeral costs.
Author Roald Dahl’s (Matilda, Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc) father lost his arm because a drunk doctor confused his father’s broken arm for a dislocated shoulder. Which resulted in his father losing the arm. That happened in Norway, but Roald Dahl recounts the story in his book Boy, as well as other medical situations Roald and his family went through in England. Makes you glad modern medicine is a thing 😂
In the Army, smart soldiers use their own sharpie to mark the limbs the Doc is NOT supposed to cut off so they are safe while we are unconscious on the table. Army Docs in America still have a habit of AMPUTATING THE WRONG LIMB! Imagine you waking up to find they cut off your only working arm! "Oops, sorry about that. My bad. I read the chart wrong". Still happens to this day, and will happen again tommorrow. But it's free health care...
It's weird to look back on history to see how little they knew. Makes me wonder in 200 years from now will the future generation look back on us and talk about how little we know....? food for thought.
Before Dr, Quinn was on, there was a Canadian show called "Bordertown" with a lady doctor. They got the idea for Dr. Quinn from that show. th-cam.com/video/8LxBvY7xZo4/w-d-xo.html
I was an old West doctor. I remember past lives. I was a stickler for washing my hands and using carbolic acid for cleaning my instruments I had been issued as a Union surgeon in the War between the States. I did use probes for finding bullets and removing them. I did stitch up bad cuts with a needle and horse hair. I often attended births but really never did surgery for babies caught in the pelvis, it was sad to see the mother and infant die. I did have chloroform and used it. I did cut off cancerous teats but that was a big deal with poor results most often. I treated pain of old wounds with veterans with Laudenum. The catarrh called for whiskey and tobacco smoke to clear the lungs. It was a good life.
10:31 “Who would you go to if you caught a fever knowing your doctor would recommend drinking sulfur with a whiskey chaser?” Best Doctor prescription ever! hahahaha
@@steveruby2120 didn't most of the Natives die from diseases though? I'm sure their herbal knowledge was pretty good, but so was European medicine at the time. Really, allowing these psychopaths to become "Doctors" was irresponsible, and training was awful.
The natives lived thousands of years until Europeans brought diseases to them of which they had no defense. A lot died from wars and starvation, due to killing off of the buffalo and driving them off of their lands by Europeans. No kind of medicine would cure that.
Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...” Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!” Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.” Women: “...”
@@pathologicaldoubt it was fantastic honestly xD. As a woman I hate that shit more than anyone else. What's better is when they say, "when have any women waged war/done bad things" you give them a whole laundry list of shit and they fumble to give a response.
Exactly. We have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves every now and then and demand respect vs earning trust that turns into bonds of respect. Our society has halted our progress as a species once identity politics became the focus. Divide and conquer.
@profnasty Good for you. At least you didn't spend 20-30 years of your life paying off medical operation debts like my family did. Next time troll some one who has earned it, Mr Holier than thou.
@@ingunakirsteine4336 yep, thats where the barbers gets the red and white double helix thing. White for shave cream, red for blood, and its a stylized caeduceus: the the winged twined serpent design used for centuries to denote doctors.
*oil of cloves was often given for tooth aches Clove oil contains a chemical called eugenol, which acts as an anesthetic and antibacterial agent. Clove oil is anti-inflammatory and antifungal*
@@kevingonzalez3673 Very true! 🤭 I was thinking more along the lines of Jane Seymour's character. If not, I would prefer Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie. If I researched him, I would probably find a poor track record, too. Besides, both would be out of network. So, I would have to pay them with chickens or something. What kind of quality service should I expect when paying with poultry? 🤷🏻♀️ (😆)
At 00.58 seconds "for the most part medicine was a cut throat business" that is what's called an unintended pun, good job. PS; I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks
Love hearing Placerville, CA in a video, I have family there! It’s still an extremely woodsy, isolated and old-fashioned place. And pretty close to Sutter Creek, which is where the California gold rush officially started :) which is a pretty interesting story in itself! Just a heads up though, the locals pronounce it “Plah-cerville,” not “Play-cerville.” Great video as always!
Marie lol I’m sorry, I live in San Francisco. A small town hours from any significant cities, where everything moves slower and looks like it was built in the 80’s, counts as “isolated” to many people, so there’s no need to nitpick. I love Placerville but Shangri-la it is not 😂
Can y'all do an episode on James Barry?? First transgender doctor and FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY preform a cesarean birth in which both the mother and child lived. I mean the man traveled with a goat friend so he could have fresh milk wherever he went! Please do him for an episode!!!
@@joshuaroe1402 and what mental illness what that? I've never heard of him being ill? He was known to be hot headed and got into fights easily, but I've never seen any documentation of any sort of mental illness
Lol I LOVE this channel!! So happy I found it!! I binge a few episodes every morning first thing with my coffee and I always find myself laughing. “Yes the majority of patients who underwent bloodletting by cutting open their jugular had the prognosis you e probably guessed.... they died!!” (Close as I could remember but still hilarious). Your sarcasm is exactly my kind of humor!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁
Great video! I love medical history, and especially its acceptance/rejection by the general public. It's also fascinating to see how some of medicine's greatest advances were accidental. Like noticing that the cleaner the hands and instuments were, the fewer patients died of secondary infections. Even Dr. Fleming sort of Forrest Gumped into penicillin, and it was the biggest game changer in history.
I love the series Gunsmoke with its scruffy town doctor Adams... I’m watching from the start to see all I missed and refresh my memories of the later seasons. Things usually didn’t get complicated beyond the frequent digging out of bullets from a gunfight, or occasional heart attack. It would have been real interesting to see how bad a case could really get, like someone choking from diphtheria or a woman needing a C section, etc. Even around Dodge City that could have happened!
I've never heard of a single heart attack, and more was covered as this was an adult TV show where there is a period that tidbits of medical knowledge were written in the script to, assumingly, bring some intellectual interest e.g.: quarantining Boil clothes [may shrink] Burn clothes Cider has the same properties as vinegar (can be used to treat scurvy) Catarrh - thick mucous or phlegm blocking airways or cavities. Can be in throat, ears or chest, but mostly on sinuses. Chilblains - sores after exposure to very cold temperatures Pleura - the delicate serous membrane that lines each half of the thorax of mammals and is folded back over the surface of the lung of the same side Sawbone - a doctor [surgeon] cholera morbus (bacteria): usually in water or food; fatal if not treated Dyspepsia (indigestion) (Pepsol, enzymes for digestion) Paregoric - camphorated (impregnated or treated with) tincture of opium used especially to relieve pain Scood’s Calagog - ? [exilir?] Lumbago - acute or chronic pain (such as that caused by muscle strain) in the lower back Liniment - a liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant Colic Colic bend (?) botulism (bacteria): bad Typhus Typhoid disease - could come from flies, negligent milk, food, sanitation; not contagious Ague - Starting in the 13th century, feverish illness was named ague, from the Medieval Latin acuta, "sharp fever," and its root, meaning "sharp." The word began to refer specifically to malaria, an infectious disease spread by mosquitoes, as early as the late 14th century. Colonial doctors often attributed cases of ague to "bad air," and the illness reached epidemic levels several times. It was eliminated as a public health issue in the U.S. around 1950, although malaria is still a problem in other parts of the world. When people got sick with fever and chills back in colonial times, they called their illness ague. Bubonic plague Mange - any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite Mountain fever - RMSF Rockey Mountain Spotted Fever - spread from tick bite, can be deadly Cattle tick fever (fever ticks, Spanish fever, Texas fever) Croup - an upper airway infection that blocks breathing and has a distinctive barking cough Diphtheria - a serious infection of the nose and throat (bacterial) Measles (will turn into pneumonia) Scurvy (scorbutus [lack of ascorbic acid {Vitamin C}]) Plague (from fleas) Ptomaine poisoning - food poisoning caused by bacteria or bacterial products Strychnine - poison (in nuxated iron elixir) (rat poison) Salt rheum - (medicine, dated, chiefly US) Any of various cutaneous eruptions, especially eczema. “Garden-tea” - “guarantee” Carbonic acid Liniment - a topical liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant Laughing gas - nitrous oxide Nitre - (chiefly British), is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO₃, also known as saltpeter or saltpetre. Historically, the term niter was not well differentiated from natron, both of which have been very vaguely defined but generally refer to compounds of sodium or potassium joined with carbonate or nitrate ions. [Here, it is probably meant to have been used for fever.] Elixir Nuxated iron - It was sold as a performing enhancing iron supplement in the early 20th century, obviously, an iron supplements. As for the “nuxated” part of it, that refers to nux vomica, a deadly substance better known as strychnine (i.e. rat poison). Fortunately, the stuff being hawked…actually contained very little strychnine, and not much iron either. It was comparatively useless as a performance-enhancing drug, but would not kill you unless you took a lot of it. Chloroform (ether): anesthetic (Chloropicrin, also known as PS and nitrochloroform, is a chemical compound currently used as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, and nematicide. Its chemical structural formula is Cl₃CNO₂) Ether used to put people to sleep so shock of operating doesn’t kill them Tonic Oldest anesthetic [local] known -ice Anesthetic is used to ease the shock of surgery otherwise resulting in death. A human being has 32 teeth Opium - bad habit forming drug Laudanum: is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight; paregoric (pharmacy, apothecary, drugstore) Syrup esquel (?) Elixir Seidlitz powder - effervescing salts consisting of one powder of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and another of tartaric acid that are mixed in water and drunk as a mild cathartic (medicine that causes the bowels to be purged) - used for bellyache {Ipecac} {belladonna} {saline solution} {aspiration needle } {drench bottle} {carbolic acid} {boric acid} {tallow and balsam of Peru} Unicorn root - (Unicorn root, cayenne pepper, vinegar) Carbolic acid spray - Phenol (carbolic acid) is one of the oldest antiseptic agents. Phenol was first extracted from coal tar, but today is produced on a large scale (about 7 billion kg/year) from petroleum. The Lister Report - [Listerine - Inspired by Louis Pasteur's ideas on microbial infection, the English doctor Joseph Lister demonstrated in 1865 that use of carbolic acid on surgical dressings would significantly reduce rates of post-surgical infection. Lister's work in turn inspired St. Louis-based doctor Joseph Lawrence to develop an alcohol-based formula for a surgical antiseptic which included eucalyptol, menthol, methyl salicylate, and thymol (Its exact composition is a trade secret). Lawrence named his antiseptic "Listerine" in honor of Lister.] Richardson hand spray - Alcohol, calamine and quinine - medicinal tonic [sic] Loam - soil; specifically : a soil consisting of a friable (easily crumbled or pulverized) mixture of varying proportions of clay, silt, and sand Terra alba - pulverized gypsum CaSO4+2H2O - can be used as a filler Petroleum tar (coal tar) - This medication is used on the skin to treat the itching, scaling, and flaking due to skin conditions such as psoriasis or seborrheic dermatitis. Coal tar belongs to a class of drugs known as keratoplastics. It works by causing the skin to shed dead cells from its top layer and slow down the growth of skin cells. It demonstrates anti-fungal, -itch, -parasitic properties. Castor oil - a pale viscous fatty oil from castor beans used especially as a cathartic and as a lubricant and plasticizer Mesmerize, hypnotize Leukemia, white blood cells run wild Cauterize - burn wounds [to prevent infection] Subdural hematoma - small pool of blood between the brain and its outermost covering applying pressure on brain and causing impairment. Comes from severe head injury. If bleeding continues, it is terminal. Delirium tremens - Calcified liver - Vegetable pulmonic detergent - Vegetable tonic - August flower Bitters - Sassafras (root) - thins blood (by spring) Blessed thistle - Cnicus benedictus Goldenseal - hydrastis canadensis Gas gangrene: (also known as clostridial myonecrosis and myonecrosis) is a bacterial infection that produces gas in tissues in gangrene. This deadly form of gangrene usually is caused by clostridium perfringens bacteria. It is a medical emergency. Regular thread will not tie off severed arteries, rawhide will soak through, horse tail hair was used in Home Surgery, 1955. Scarlet fever (spotted fever): a bacterial illness that develops in some people who have strep throat. Also known as scarlatina, scarlet fever features a bright red rash that covers most of the body. Scarlet fever is almost always accompanied by a sore throat and a high fever. Suture - stitches Turpentine [used to clean wound] But, yes, mostly digging out bullets and miraculous recovery.
Lou Fazio My, you have done your homework! I have a long way to go. I am watching all the eps beginning in 1955 on the official Gunsmoke forum...I was a baby then and didn’t discover GS till maybe age 9. It is fun to discuss and dissect all the details from those great shows. We were lately talking about realism or lack of realism in early eps compared to later when it went to color... Someone said that by then, it became more sanitized...(as did the other westerns) . Another fav topic was Dr. Adams’ upstairs office...imagine the problems getting a severely injured, sick, even dying person up all those steps...!
@@ijustlovebritcoms Yes, its been interesting to find all that is in the show; I use CC to be that complete. I caught another one tonight - xerophthalmia - conjunctivitis, dry eyes. Milburn Stone really did a good job (along with all the others) in this show. Have fun watching.
American medical education was put on a rigorous basis by the Flexner Report. A book, _The Great Influenza_ by John Barry, discusses the intertwining of medical education, the 1918 pandemic, and the beginnings of institutionalized medical research. Fine writing as well as informative.
15 yrs ago, I went to a flea market here in town. I found a Dr's medical bag, stamped "Paid September 1895" & it still had some of the medications in it. I was so thrilled. I still have my Johnny West hores, action figures & covered wagon. So fascinating.
This is so interesting. It's crazy that there are so doctor's that have all the schooling in the world and they seem that they don't know what are doing. Great video.
I am a surgeon and when I was in medical school ( just starting ) I was camping in a caravan and a woman in the camp that I was in started choking. I did the Heimlich manuever and when I realised this was not working my only choice to save her life was to perform a tracheotomy. My mum was a Doctor so I spent my entire life reading her medical books. I knew how to perform one but I was so scared I was shaking. Needless to say all went well and she survived and to this day she sends me flowers on my bday. Sometimes you have to do something in order to save a life ( the janitor who performed the c section ).
agreed, sometimes things have to be done that seem awkward afterwards. however, I suppose this event will be in your memories for your life time and might have been some sort of a sign by fate in order for you to see whether this is the right way to go for you or not? you had the guts and knowledge to do what nobody else at that spot couldn't, and I think this legitimates your operation. and that lady seems very thankful for your intervention. ps: is that you on your avatar? if so, let me tell you that you're a beautiful woman. however, take care and keep going your way.
@@the_rover1 Thank you very much for your kind words! I never looked at it the way you said it. Yes that's me and I appreciate your compliment very much! ♥️
“Clam was wounded from three body shots. Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded... he was dead.”
It checks out, that is indeed more wounded.
That made me chuckle.
It became quite clear neither hack had ever even heard of the Hippocratic oath.
Bearing in mind they were the only ones that even came close to a doctor and decided to have a duel...
"he died of natural causes". "six bullets wounds is natural causes?". "well naturally you'll die from six bullet wounds...". Can't remember which old western movie I saw that in but i've been trying to find for years. Such a funny statement.
@@Me4-gc8qs lol... just ask Google ... it knowwws... haha
When the cure is worse than the disease.
Morbius!
@Tiberiu Farcas you might want to listen. Sir.
@@Jessica-to8um
True fair point
Then nothing has changed
Still happening today
"He was slightly more wounded.
He was dead."
Well played sir.
"slightly more" was classic!
I was a veterinary assistant, and I watch a lot of TH-cam. I could have been the best doctor in the Wild West.
Oh god ya 😂
Ya.....no
Keith Adams you right he prolly would have more experience then most of them fools lmao
TH-cam about medicine, biology and Health you mean?
If your anything like the vets I have visited, I’d rather take my chances with the cowboy doctors. Vets in the us are about money not helping animals. So in a way, the doctors of the time were probably on par with them, taking people’s money for bs treatment.
Had a doctor to tell me to go home and drink beer to get rid of a kidney stone. That happen thirty years ago. Been following his advice ever since.
Just one beer once you have the stone, or a beer a day to prevent it, or a beer a day until the stone dissolves?
@@HeidiAndScots Don't really know. Passed the stone and never went back to see him again. He never called me and told me to quit drinking beer.
Lemon juice
Well ethanol *is* a potent diuretic
@@paulashmore4521 Yeah idk, I've known alcoholics who still got kidney stones...
100 years ago you go to the dentist and he’d pull your tooth and give you a haircut afterwards.
A two for one
I'd say more like 150-200 years ago but yeah basically lol
Now they fix teeth. And give kids candy afterwards... BRUSH YOUR TEETH. LOL.
Don’t forget he’d shoe your horse since blacksmiths did all of that stuff too.
the red & white striped barbed pole symbol represents blood and bandages, dating back at least a couple centuries.
I bet a bar of modern day antibacterial soap would be worth its weight in gold.
Bet you could sell seashells as gold if you're a good talker back in those days..
Witchcraft!!!
Yep but they didnt know about microbes yet
Knowledge of airborne pathogens fidnt come for quite some time, not sure exactly if before or around this time
@@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.
Germ theory wasn't completely adopted by the medical community at the time
Anaesthetics is one of humanities greatest medical inventions that's for sure lol
The tidbit of info. I heard from the script of Gunsmoke by Doc Adams was "ice is the earliest know method of [local] anesthesia.
@@louf7178 oh cool-I guess that makes sense doesn't it, ice can have a numbing effect to a degree like local anaesthetic, thanks for that!
I've been thinking about ops without anaesthetics lately as I'm not long out of hospital from a 2 week stay because I badly broke my leg, needed a metal pin with 3 plates inserted, I've 2 smashed heels and needed a skin graft because they made a massive cut to relieve the pressure, without anaesthetics id probably have either lost my leg from the massive swelling (I had compartment syndrome) or my leg would have healed extremely badly. The amount of surgical procedures we are able to have now because of anaesthetics is amazing, we're extremely lucky
@@teethgrinder83 Yes, it was an enlightening reality.
I wish well for your operation.
And yes, modern medicine and surgery is quite amazing to me. I almost feel the level is tricky point of overload and over-confidence. I definitely feel personal discretion is needed amist the volume of patients, liability, interpretation etc...
@@louf7178 thanks a lot, I'm healing well now I just have to stay off my leg for another month or so, I'm lucky to have my partner helping me put when she's not working
I get what you mean, some procedures have become so routine I think Dr need to be careful about becoming blasé about them yet I know their professionals. What bothers me more is many of us, especially in the developed world, have become so used to modern medicine curing or healing so many of our problems we've started forget about prevention-the fact we can have triple bypass surgery for example and heart attacks aren't so deadly makes it easier to forget for some how much of a problem it still is. But humans are great at finding it difficult to see long term goals and so for a lot of people (and to a degree I include myself) things like a good diet and exercise just isn't important. Some time soon this will have to change I think
Contrary to popular belief Union Army gave its patients anesthesia for amputations. Unfortunately, the other things done were questionable at times, such as "bleeding" and "blistering". There was always the wonder drug "Calomel" or Mercury Cl! I am a nurse. I don't ever recall seeing that on my medicine cart! Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
I love this narrators voice...
I love you 😘
Dire 💋
I get disappointed when I watch one of those videos and it isn't his narration. He's one of the best and reminds me of what's his face from the beginning of Fallout NV
Right? I really wonder who is he. Would be great to put a face to this voice
Doctor Remulak focus on your girls than since there so hot and fuck off and leave me alone...
"Doctors do the Devil's work!"
ah yes, the immortal Karen.
And the insurence company
Abortion doctors do.
Blistering with chili paste might have had some value since capsaicin, a chemical in chili peppers, is now put into topical ointments to treat painful conditions. Capsaicin is said to block substance P which is part of the cause of pain.
Can you do a video about medicines from the Victorian era??
lead and mercury. maybe arsenic.
preferably in ass high doses.
if that doesn't help, open veines
good luck.
Interesting
A lot of morphine... Heroin an cocaine meds in the Victorian age
@@sarabyczynski4440 sounds like a party
the wild west overlapped with the Victorian era tbh
I love this channel. As someone that loves history i never realised what the average person living in said pastimes would've experienced on a daily basis and now i have a fair idea. So thank you Weird History and keep doing what you're doing 😊❤
Seriously? You love History but yku need a fucking youtube Video to get an Idea of the Past?
Thats a huge contradiction.
I bet you just played Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed once and now you think youre totally into History 😂
@@ahabduennschitz7670it's been a year since you made this comment. Do you have any regrets?
Loving this wild west content you've been churning out lately. Keep it up!
"Women doctors were totally a thing in Oregon"
Me: That's great!
"She was a big proponent of eugenics"
Me: Thats not so great
But eugenics is generally not a bad idea....
Everyone practices eugenics on some level.
@@supremesoldier354 it's a terrible idea
@@biancastepney1517 hey if you want your kids to be born with genetic conditions like blindness deformed bodies and diseases that cause an early and painful death that will make them hate themselves then you do you
@@supremesoldier354 nah I just want them to not be forcibly sterilized because the people in power decided that racial minorities are impurities on the human species :)
4:35 Medical care was a “cutthroat business”... doctor severed the jugular as a cure. Apparently medical journals weren’t a thing yet.
Technically death *is* a cure for all diseases...
Im just wondering if the wild west breeded more of experimental medicine while the east coast used the more chill traditional medicine that wouldnt maim you
1:19 That is not a photo of a doctor and a patient. That is a photo of a mortician and a corpse during the Civil War being inbalmbed to be sent back home to family.
I guess it's the best they could do lol
I dont remember asking
The cowboy on his horse looks mexican AF. I thought it was Emiliano Zapata
He said it wasnt him, in the top left corner
That may be the point. Same thing.
And here i was complaining that getting into a doctors appointment these days takes forever.😅😅😅
You didnt feed your horse :/
1800- 25 cents to see a doctor
2020- 25k plus crippling debt to see a doctor (for Americans)
1 dollar in 1850 is 33 dollars in todays money. 33 dollars = 29e. Visiting doctor in finland costs about 20-25e. So seeing a doctor in american old west costs more than seeing one in todays finland :D
Loki Dog true. Health “insurance” can deny claims eh. What a scam but a great industry to work in.
RADIO THE ARTIST That’s not hyperbolic at ALL!! 🙄
You get what you pay for.
D.A. Risse exactly yet some people expect others to pay having no idea what “free healthcare” means. Someone is paying, nothing is free. I have great healthcare that I pay for myself.
Good Day! Thank You for your excellent video! I really enjoy your channel. May I suggest a topic for a new episode? Being a Steamboat operator on the Mississippi River in the middle of the 19th century. Operating, and being a passenger on a Steamboat in the 1850's, on the Mississippi River System was quite hazardous. Groundings, sinkings, fires, boiler explosions, lack of any safety equipment, and races between competing boats were quite common. The steamboats though enabled the rapid settlement & growth in the midwest & the southeast. The explosion & fire on the Steamboat Sultana, a "Troop Ship" at the end of the Civil War, caused the death of the more passengers than the sinking of the Titanic.
Eugene Kosinski Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain was a dreamboat pilot on the Mississippi - there is a wealth of info on him. I love that steamboat experience!
Got a Cold? “Oh you need an ear nail” 101f Fever?? “You need a donkey kickin’”
Cordero Rojas I cannot stop laughing at this lmfaooooooo
B.U.N/ Watcher
Might be better than a donkey dickin.
no boner in sight and missus in bad mood? have this outstanding aphrodisiac made of spider legs and lizard testicles _bone 'er tonight!_
Great movie
I have the same opinion of a lot of the Doctors that are practicing today.
People we certainly tougher back then, I couldn't have coped with these 'treatments'. I can understand why they drank so much whiskey back then, I think I'd want to be wasted too.
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you down feel the pain so much when drunk, you know. especially with lead bullets and fists flying around, you know.
They didn’t know any better.
People also drank so much whiskey (and previously rum and previously lager and previously ale) because there wasn't exactly clean, good-tasting water readily available
Soft drinks wouldn't really be a thing for a while either, and when they did start, they were more remedy then casual drinking
@@OatmealTheCrazy That was true for areas in Europe. But it was low-alcohol beer. U can't get hydrated from 80 proof alcohol! And it was prob higher back then. They drank to get fucked up, just like now.
Reminds me of that time as Arthur Morgan when he got tb and went to the doctor and paid $16 which was alot back then just for him to tell him to take it easy
The duel with pistols sounds like a great way to resolve today's health insurance disputes. Charging a fee for spectators should cover any funeral costs.
That sure sounds great
Slowing becoming more of a possibility lol
Author Roald Dahl’s (Matilda, Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc) father lost his arm because a drunk doctor confused his father’s broken arm for a dislocated shoulder. Which resulted in his father losing the arm. That happened in Norway, but Roald Dahl recounts the story in his book Boy, as well as other medical situations Roald and his family went through in England. Makes you glad modern medicine is a thing 😂
It really makes me wonder how modern medicine even got started when every doctor was trying to use blood letting to cure everything.
In the Army, smart soldiers use their own sharpie to mark the limbs the Doc is NOT supposed to cut off so they are safe while we are unconscious on the table. Army Docs in America still have a habit of AMPUTATING THE WRONG LIMB! Imagine you waking up to find they cut off your only working arm! "Oops, sorry about that. My bad. I read the chart wrong". Still happens to this day, and will happen again tommorrow. But it's free health care...
Dahl was also the host of “Way Out “ a tv show similar to the Twilight Zone. In the 60s.
@@andrewflowers6794 You mean they might amputate your leg that is in the middle of the two other legs? 😅
I just love this channel.
Three ways to die in the West
One of them doctor assisted.
The use of fish hooks in this one gave me the willies
Me too!
It's weird to look back on history to see how little they knew. Makes me wonder in 200 years from now will the future generation look back on us and talk about how little we know....? food for thought.
They will somewhat, but we actually understand the world around us a ton more than they did in the past.
Let me guess. Your options were: Amputation, Bloodletting, Mercury, or laudanum.
*Spin the wheel to chose your treatment...no whammies*
I'll take laudanum.
Easy choice for me. I have polycythemia vera. I had a blood letting only last week. Could I get a blood letting _and_ the laudanum?
that'll be laudanum for me, then.
COWABUNGA it is!
Laudanum for the win.
Great video! Love everything related to the old west! But please do a video about courtesans during roman times!
Best TH-cam channel ever, good job keep on doing what u do !!!!
Unless, you go to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Loved that show!!
The real Quinn would have killed her patients too.
One of my favorite shows ever
Or Doc Adams
Before Dr, Quinn was on, there was a Canadian show called "Bordertown" with a lady doctor. They got the idea for Dr. Quinn from that show.
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I was an old West doctor. I remember past lives. I was a stickler for washing my hands and using carbolic acid for cleaning my instruments I had been issued as a Union surgeon in the War between the States. I did use probes for finding bullets and removing them. I did stitch up bad cuts with a needle and horse hair. I often attended births but really never did surgery for babies caught in the pelvis, it was sad to see the mother and infant die. I did have chloroform and used it. I did cut off cancerous teats but that was a big deal with poor results most often. I treated pain of old wounds with veterans with Laudenum. The catarrh called for whiskey and tobacco smoke to clear the lungs. It was a good life.
I was one of your patients. Fuck you
I’d go to the Native American medicine man!!
Yep. I'm black though so I'd probably have some good slave remedy medicine. My granny had medical recipes from her great granny who was a slave....
Thanks for another great video. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Just finished playing Red Dead Redemption 2 to see this lol
Definitely interesting. The early settlers really were tough people. They are so under appreciated today.
4: Drink until you can't feel your face.
It was appreciated you mentioned Native contributions, even if they weren't recognized back then by most.
10:31 “Who would you go to if you caught a fever knowing your doctor would recommend drinking sulfur with a whiskey chaser?”
Best Doctor prescription ever! hahahaha
Just take Drano and chase it with Brandy.
Sulphur was used often it seems
I really appreciate this channel. Thanks so much for the fun informative vids hehe.
Oh purging just sounds lovely. You can still accomplish that by just eating at Taco Bell.
Or at any Indian restaurant.
Ramen and mtn dew together is better than any laxative
@@Lovinia1 TMI
No thanks. I will take the mercury slurpee.
I wish someone would have written down Native American cures. I think we would be better off.
Ummm... Probably not.
The combination of what they knew and what we've learned would make us better off.
At the time, yes I think they were very good with natural medicine
@@steveruby2120 didn't most of the Natives die from diseases though? I'm sure their herbal knowledge was pretty good, but so was European medicine at the time. Really, allowing these psychopaths to become "Doctors" was irresponsible, and training was awful.
The natives lived thousands of years until Europeans brought diseases to them of which they had no defense. A lot died from wars and starvation, due to killing off of the buffalo and driving them off of their lands by Europeans. No kind of medicine would cure that.
”I have good news and bad news. Good news I got rid of your cough, bad news you’re addicted to heroin“
thats actually modern day
@@stopabledu nice catch 🤔💀
🤣🤣🤣🤣
i’d just go to the afterlife if someone told me to drink sulfur and whiskey 💀
Binge by Tyler Oakley was actually an advert that made it sound tempting! Gonna search for reviews now.
Good video too, thanks.
Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...”
Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!”
Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.”
Women: “...”
A woman was speechless? No way.
I'm kidding, hacky '80s joke. I'll see myself out.
pathologicaldoubt ah yes, because the male doctors had such high ethical standards in comparison
FYI this post was merely meant to illuminate the idiocy of identity politics.
@@pathologicaldoubt it was fantastic honestly xD. As a woman I hate that shit more than anyone else. What's better is when they say, "when have any women waged war/done bad things" you give them a whole laundry list of shit and they fumble to give a response.
Exactly. We have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves every now and then and demand respect vs earning trust that turns into bonds of respect. Our society has halted our progress as a species once identity politics became the focus. Divide and conquer.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a fascinating and shocking history, a real "A-ha" moment!
Creepy. Being as I've had like 20+ operations I am so glad I did not live in that era as I don't think I'd survive the _cure_.
@profnasty Good for you. At least you didn't spend 20-30 years of your life paying off medical operation debts like my family did. Next time troll some one who has earned it, Mr Holier than thou.
Great channel ! Glad I found it !
Cowboy: Doc, I got a sliver in my thumb.
Doctor: Yeah, you need an ear nail.
Grew up 20 minutes from downtown Placerville. I love the history out of that town! Been to some really cool spots out that way in the back woods.
"I'm a doctor too." - Dr. Steve Brule
I love this channel so much.
Going to a dentist would interest me
That's the barber you're looking for, not a doctor.
@@ingunakirsteine4336 yep, thats where the barbers gets the red and white double helix thing. White for shave cream, red for blood, and its a stylized caeduceus: the the winged twined serpent design used for centuries to denote doctors.
Don't forget the bloodletting at the barber!
*oil of cloves was often given for tooth aches Clove oil contains a chemical called eugenol, which acts as an anesthetic and antibacterial agent. Clove oil is anti-inflammatory and antifungal*
Liking this before I go to bed. Good night!
I would like to think that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would have been my physician. (😄)
The real medicine woman killed most of her patients.
@@kevingonzalez3673 Very true! 🤭 I was thinking more along the lines of Jane Seymour's character. If not, I would prefer Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie. If I researched him, I would probably find a poor track record, too.
Besides, both would be out of network. So, I would have to pay them with chickens or something. What kind of quality service should I expect when paying with poultry? 🤷🏻♀️ (😆)
@@JenniferMenendez522 😹😹😹
Jane Seymour can give me a physical anytime
Of course u would 🙄
Ahhh, good old Hangtown. I love learning little tidbits about the area.
I mean can we put parentheses around calling them doctors? It's a drunk guy. Who told you got ghosts in your blood.
Loved this one! We try to preserve history too!
if I had a fever back then I would see an Indian tribe's person for holistic medicine that they used for generations!
At 00.58 seconds "for the most part medicine was a
cut throat business" that is what's called an unintended pun, good job.
PS; I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks
In one word: *PAINFUL*
Love hearing Placerville, CA in a video, I have family there! It’s still an extremely woodsy, isolated and old-fashioned place. And pretty close to Sutter Creek, which is where the California gold rush officially started :) which is a pretty interesting story in itself! Just a heads up though, the locals pronounce it “Plah-cerville,” not “Play-cerville.” Great video as always!
Idk if I would call the town isolated, the population is over 20,000. But woodsy it is indeed (once you’re out of town).
Marie lol I’m sorry, I live in San Francisco. A small town hours from any significant cities, where everything moves slower and looks like it was built in the 80’s, counts as “isolated” to many people, so there’s no need to nitpick. I love Placerville but Shangri-la it is not 😂
Can y'all do an episode on James Barry?? First transgender doctor and FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY preform a cesarean birth in which both the mother and child lived. I mean the man traveled with a goat friend so he could have fresh milk wherever he went! Please do him for an episode!!!
Asher White That is quite an accomplishment doing all of that while suffering from a mental illness.
@@joshuaroe1402 and what mental illness what that? I've never heard of him being ill? He was known to be hot headed and got into fights easily, but I've never seen any documentation of any sort of mental illness
She must have been quite good at pretending to be male. In those days she would be driven out of town or shot.
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It's amazing how far we've came since then. I'd love to see technology in 100 years from now.
Same.
I love this episode. I always look forward to new ones.
Lol I LOVE this channel!! So happy I found it!! I binge a few episodes every morning first thing with my coffee and I always find myself laughing. “Yes the majority of patients who underwent bloodletting by cutting open their jugular had the prognosis you e probably guessed.... they died!!” (Close as I could remember but still hilarious). Your sarcasm is exactly my kind of humor!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁
I live right next to old town Placerville and I’ve never heard of that story!! Very cool!!
I'm here for the Red Dead Redemption2 comments....
I live in Placerville! I never thought this little town would be mentioned! 😂🥳 I almost dropped my phone when it was mentioned lmao
That must be where the old saying comes from about if it doesn't kill you it should cure you. LOL
*doesn't mention the fact that you may be cured but a bit....off afterwards*
Love the video! Please make a video about the Salem Witch trials!
Great video! I love medical history, and especially its acceptance/rejection by the general public. It's also fascinating to see how some of medicine's greatest advances were accidental. Like noticing that the cleaner the hands and instuments were, the fewer patients died of secondary infections. Even Dr. Fleming sort of Forrest Gumped into penicillin, and it was the biggest game changer in history.
Fleming didn't understand the potential therapeutic uses of penicillin, which had to wait for the WWII effort with Florey, Chain, and others.
I- it's beautiful...there are no ads 🥺😍😭
Epitaph on old west tombstone- I told you I was sick!
I love the series Gunsmoke with its scruffy town doctor Adams... I’m watching from the start to see all I missed and refresh my memories of the later seasons. Things usually didn’t get complicated beyond the frequent digging out of bullets from a gunfight, or occasional heart attack. It would have been real interesting to see how bad a case could really get, like someone choking from diphtheria or a woman needing a C section, etc. Even around Dodge City that could have happened!
I've never heard of a single heart attack, and more was covered as this was an adult TV show where there is a period that tidbits of medical knowledge were written in the script to, assumingly, bring some intellectual interest e.g.:
quarantining
Boil clothes [may shrink]
Burn clothes
Cider has the same properties as vinegar (can be used to treat scurvy)
Catarrh - thick mucous or phlegm blocking airways or cavities. Can be in throat, ears or chest, but mostly on sinuses.
Chilblains - sores after exposure to very cold temperatures
Pleura - the delicate serous membrane that lines each half of the thorax of mammals and is folded back over the surface of the lung of the same side
Sawbone - a doctor [surgeon]
cholera morbus (bacteria): usually in water or food; fatal if not treated
Dyspepsia (indigestion) (Pepsol, enzymes for digestion)
Paregoric - camphorated (impregnated or treated with) tincture of opium used especially to relieve pain
Scood’s Calagog - ? [exilir?]
Lumbago - acute or chronic pain (such as that caused by muscle strain) in the lower back
Liniment - a liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant
Colic
Colic bend (?)
botulism (bacteria): bad
Typhus
Typhoid disease - could come from flies, negligent milk, food, sanitation; not contagious
Ague - Starting in the 13th century, feverish illness was named ague, from the Medieval Latin acuta, "sharp fever," and its root, meaning "sharp." The word began to refer specifically to malaria, an infectious disease spread by mosquitoes, as early as the late 14th century. Colonial doctors often attributed cases of ague to "bad air," and the illness reached epidemic levels several times. It was eliminated as a public health issue in the U.S. around 1950, although malaria is still a problem in other parts of the world. When people got sick with fever and chills back in colonial times, they called their illness ague.
Bubonic plague
Mange - any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite
Mountain fever - RMSF Rockey Mountain Spotted Fever - spread from tick bite, can be deadly
Cattle tick fever (fever ticks, Spanish fever, Texas fever)
Croup - an upper airway infection that blocks breathing and has a distinctive barking cough
Diphtheria - a serious infection of the nose and throat (bacterial)
Measles (will turn into pneumonia)
Scurvy (scorbutus [lack of ascorbic acid {Vitamin C}])
Plague (from fleas)
Ptomaine poisoning - food poisoning caused by bacteria or bacterial products
Strychnine - poison (in nuxated iron elixir) (rat poison)
Salt rheum - (medicine, dated, chiefly US) Any of various cutaneous eruptions, especially eczema.
“Garden-tea” - “guarantee”
Carbonic acid
Liniment - a topical liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant
Laughing gas - nitrous oxide
Nitre - (chiefly British), is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO₃, also known as saltpeter or saltpetre. Historically, the term niter was not well differentiated from natron, both of which have been very vaguely defined but generally refer to compounds of sodium or potassium joined with carbonate or nitrate ions. [Here, it is probably meant to have been used for fever.]
Elixir
Nuxated iron - It was sold as a performing enhancing iron supplement in the early 20th century, obviously, an iron supplements. As for the “nuxated” part of it, that refers to nux vomica, a deadly substance better known as strychnine (i.e. rat poison). Fortunately, the stuff being hawked…actually contained very little strychnine, and not much iron either. It was comparatively useless as a performance-enhancing drug, but would not kill you unless you took a lot of it.
Chloroform (ether): anesthetic
(Chloropicrin, also known as PS and nitrochloroform, is a chemical compound currently used as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, and nematicide. Its chemical structural formula is Cl₃CNO₂)
Ether used to put people to sleep so shock of operating doesn’t kill them
Tonic
Oldest anesthetic [local] known -ice
Anesthetic is used to ease the shock of surgery otherwise resulting in death.
A human being has 32 teeth
Opium - bad habit forming drug
Laudanum: is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight; paregoric
(pharmacy, apothecary, drugstore)
Syrup esquel (?)
Elixir
Seidlitz powder - effervescing salts consisting of one powder of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and another of tartaric acid that are mixed in water and drunk as a mild cathartic (medicine that causes the bowels to be purged) - used for bellyache
{Ipecac}
{belladonna}
{saline solution}
{aspiration needle }
{drench bottle}
{carbolic acid}
{boric acid}
{tallow and balsam of Peru}
Unicorn root -
(Unicorn root, cayenne pepper, vinegar)
Carbolic acid spray - Phenol (carbolic acid) is one of the oldest antiseptic agents. Phenol was first extracted from coal tar, but today is produced on a large scale (about 7 billion kg/year) from petroleum.
The Lister Report - [Listerine - Inspired by Louis Pasteur's ideas on microbial infection, the English doctor Joseph Lister demonstrated in 1865 that use of carbolic acid on surgical dressings would significantly reduce rates of post-surgical infection. Lister's work in turn inspired St. Louis-based doctor Joseph Lawrence to develop an alcohol-based formula for a surgical antiseptic which included eucalyptol, menthol, methyl salicylate, and thymol (Its exact composition is a trade secret). Lawrence named his antiseptic "Listerine" in honor of Lister.]
Richardson hand spray -
Alcohol, calamine and quinine - medicinal tonic [sic]
Loam - soil; specifically : a soil consisting of a friable (easily crumbled or pulverized) mixture of varying proportions of clay, silt, and sand
Terra alba - pulverized gypsum CaSO4+2H2O - can be used as a filler
Petroleum tar (coal tar) - This medication is used on the skin to treat the itching, scaling, and flaking due to skin conditions such as psoriasis or seborrheic dermatitis. Coal tar belongs to a class of drugs known as keratoplastics. It works by causing the skin to shed dead cells from its top layer and slow down the growth of skin cells. It demonstrates anti-fungal, -itch, -parasitic properties.
Castor oil - a pale viscous fatty oil from castor beans used especially as a cathartic and as a lubricant and plasticizer
Mesmerize, hypnotize
Leukemia, white blood cells run wild
Cauterize - burn wounds [to prevent infection]
Subdural hematoma - small pool of blood between the brain and its outermost covering applying pressure on brain and causing impairment. Comes from severe head injury. If bleeding continues, it is terminal.
Delirium tremens -
Calcified liver -
Vegetable pulmonic detergent -
Vegetable tonic -
August flower Bitters -
Sassafras (root) - thins blood (by spring)
Blessed thistle - Cnicus benedictus
Goldenseal - hydrastis canadensis
Gas gangrene: (also known as clostridial myonecrosis and myonecrosis) is a bacterial infection that produces gas in tissues in gangrene. This deadly form of gangrene usually is caused by clostridium perfringens bacteria. It is a medical emergency. Regular thread will not tie off severed arteries, rawhide will soak through, horse tail hair was used in Home Surgery, 1955.
Scarlet fever (spotted fever): a bacterial illness that develops in some people who have strep throat. Also known as scarlatina, scarlet fever features a bright red rash that covers most of the body. Scarlet fever is almost always accompanied by a sore throat and a high fever.
Suture - stitches
Turpentine [used to clean wound]
But, yes, mostly digging out bullets and miraculous recovery.
Lou Fazio My, you have done your homework! I have a long way to go. I am watching all the eps beginning in 1955 on the official Gunsmoke forum...I was a baby then and didn’t discover GS till maybe age 9. It is fun to discuss and dissect all the details from those great shows. We were lately talking about realism or lack of realism in early eps compared to later when it went to color... Someone said that by then, it became more sanitized...(as did the other westerns) . Another fav topic was Dr. Adams’ upstairs office...imagine the problems getting a severely injured, sick, even dying person up all those steps...!
@@ijustlovebritcoms Yes, its been interesting to find all that is in the show; I use CC to be that complete.
I caught another one tonight - xerophthalmia - conjunctivitis, dry eyes.
Milburn Stone really did a good job (along with all the others) in this show. Have fun watching.
Lou Fazio Wow!! You’re good, you are! Now I’ve a long list of ailments and cures to watch out for...
Watching this made me want to learn more about the medical schools that taught these Doctors. They believed in some strange remedies.
American medical education was put on a rigorous basis by the Flexner Report. A book, _The Great Influenza_ by John Barry, discusses the intertwining of medical education, the 1918 pandemic, and the beginnings of institutionalized medical research. Fine writing as well as informative.
@@howardberkowitz5379 Thanks for the suggestion!
15 yrs ago, I went to a flea market here in town. I found a Dr's medical bag, stamped "Paid September 1895" & it still had some of the medications in it. I was so thrilled. I still have my Johnny West hores, action figures & covered wagon. So fascinating.
I saw “snake oil” in the thumbnail and I immediately thought of RDR 2
Middle school teacher here! Love your videos. ❤️ I’d love to see a video about teacher expectations/requirements in the 1800s-1900s.
That's easy and summed up in one word..... indoctrination
What was it like to be a kid growing up in the Wild West?
What occupations were open to women in the Wild West?
*depends on what occupations you are referring to*
School teacher. Seamstress. Cook, are a few.
You mean a birthgiver ?
@@julienielsen3746 and saloon entertainers. on stage as well as one storey up, in those 'private separees'.
@@the_rover1 I think everybody knows about that. I'm thinking occupations for women that weren't bimbos.
This is so interesting. It's crazy that there are so doctor's that have all the schooling in the world and they seem that they don't know what are doing. Great video.
Can you do a video about childbirth? I find it interesting of how it changed in the 1800's to how it is now. Or even before the 1800's
Would you do a video of the Golden age in holland? The paintings of van gogh and such and the voc ships
were the first couple mins of this video reference in your old west video, or is that just me
I love this channel! ❤️ Wow! I had no idea that doctors defended their territory quite like that!
1800s flu: i have yee'd my last haw.
2020 corona: 蝙蝠汤
GirdleMcSturtle lmao😅😂😂😂😂
For anyone who doesn’t know what that means, 蝙蝠汤 means “bat soup”
try to dig for gold when banned to home office, mate
I am a surgeon and when I was in medical school ( just starting ) I was camping in a caravan and a woman in the camp that I was in started choking. I did the Heimlich manuever and when I realised this was not working my only choice to save her life was to perform a tracheotomy. My mum was a Doctor so I spent my entire life reading her medical books. I knew how to perform one but I was so scared I was shaking. Needless to say all went well and she survived and to this day she sends me flowers on my bday. Sometimes you have to do something in order to save a life ( the janitor who performed the c section ).
agreed, sometimes things have to be done that seem awkward afterwards. however, I suppose this event will be in your memories for your life time and might have been some sort of a sign by fate in order for you to see whether this is the right way to go for you or not? you had the guts and knowledge to do what nobody else at that spot couldn't, and I think this legitimates your operation. and that lady seems very thankful for your intervention.
ps: is that you on your avatar? if so, let me tell you that you're a beautiful woman.
however, take care and keep going your way.
@@the_rover1 Thank you very much for your kind words! I never looked at it the way you said it. Yes that's me and I appreciate your compliment very much! ♥️
A doctor treated an outlaw in 1899, the dr diagnosed him with tuberculosis
I love this channel! What about a video on medieval dentistry?
Well, I have to be “that guy”. Placerville is pronounced “plasserville”, not plaiserville
Thank you
Definitely fine by me.
Blisters are so easy to handle too, I can’t believe they just covered it with more pain.
I had fever once and the only cure was more cow bell
Love your video! What about Viking era and life as a Viking??? :D
Do one on Freemasons or secret societies!
Fucking normie
Freemasonry isn't a secret society; we're listed in the phone book, for Christ's teeth!
Loving these video's 😉😊😁😎