What It Was Like Going To A Doctor In Wild West

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  • The Old West wasn't all cowboys, saloons, and shootouts. Pioneers living on the American frontier also relied on doctors for all kinds of medical treatments. Epidemics, accidents, and STDs kept doctors busy. But unfortunately for patients, the majority of frontier doctors lacked a medical degree. In the Wild West, anyone could pretend to be a doctor and promote treatments like drinking sulfur or applying leeches.
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  • @qu4980
    @qu4980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    "He was slightly more wounded.
    He was dead."
    Well played sir.

  • @plinkitee
    @plinkitee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +962

    When the cure is worse than the disease.

  • @QueenetBowie
    @QueenetBowie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +987

    “Clam was wounded from three body shots. Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded... he was dead.”

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      It checks out, that is indeed more wounded.

    • @QueenStylin
      @QueenStylin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That made me chuckle.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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...

    • @Me4-gc8qs
      @Me4-gc8qs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "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.

    • @Shuggies
      @Shuggies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Me4-gc8qs lol... just ask Google ... it knowwws... haha

  • @n3v3rg01ngback
    @n3v3rg01ngback 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1384

    I was a veterinary assistant, and I watch a lot of TH-cam. I could have been the best doctor in the Wild West.

    • @niamhgreatdane
      @niamhgreatdane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Oh god ya 😂

    • @KA-om9oz
      @KA-om9oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ya.....no

    • @ronalddillenger7339
      @ronalddillenger7339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Keith Adams you right he prolly would have more experience then most of them fools lmao

    • @-gemberkoekje-5547
      @-gemberkoekje-5547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TH-cam about medicine, biology and Health you mean?

    • @miroslavatanasov5011
      @miroslavatanasov5011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      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.

  • @paulashmore4521
    @paulashmore4521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    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.

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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?

    • @paulashmore4521
      @paulashmore4521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@heiroot 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.

    • @Nate-bn5kk
      @Nate-bn5kk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lemon juice

    • @21stCenturyDub
      @21stCenturyDub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well ethanol *is* a potent diuretic

    • @Nate-bn5kk
      @Nate-bn5kk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulashmore4521 Yeah idk, I've known alcoholics who still got kidney stones...

  • @teethgrinder83
    @teethgrinder83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    Anaesthetics is one of humanities greatest medical inventions that's for sure lol

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The tidbit of info. I heard from the script of Gunsmoke by Doc Adams was "ice is the earliest know method of [local] anesthesia.

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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...

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

    • @normajeanmorrissey2903
      @normajeanmorrissey2903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @WestShoreMan
    @WestShoreMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    100 years ago you go to the dentist and he’d pull your tooth and give you a haircut afterwards.

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      A two for one

    • @lizpimentel2566
      @lizpimentel2566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'd say more like 150-200 years ago but yeah basically lol

    • @funkworthrollin4959
      @funkworthrollin4959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now they fix teeth. And give kids candy afterwards... BRUSH YOUR TEETH. LOL.

    • @kaptainkaos1202
      @kaptainkaos1202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don’t forget he’d shoe your horse since blacksmiths did all of that stuff too.

    • @dennisanderson3895
      @dennisanderson3895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the red & white striped barbed pole symbol represents blood and bandages, dating back at least a couple centuries.

  • @brendencampbell3082
    @brendencampbell3082 4 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    I bet a bar of modern day antibacterial soap would be worth its weight in gold.

    • @gentlegoat6663
      @gentlegoat6663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Bet you could sell seashells as gold if you're a good talker back in those days..

    • @roblena7977
      @roblena7977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Witchcraft!!!

    • @zumeybear6883
      @zumeybear6883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

    • @brendencampbell3082
      @brendencampbell3082 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.

    • @thebiggestofchungi3538
      @thebiggestofchungi3538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Germ theory wasn't completely adopted by the medical community at the time

  • @BritDee88
    @BritDee88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    I love this narrators voice...

    • @jomantis5
      @jomantis5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love you 😘

    • @BritDee88
      @BritDee88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dire 💋

    • @missedmurphy
      @missedmurphy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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

    • @marinasuditu2318
      @marinasuditu2318 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right? I really wonder who is he. Would be great to put a face to this voice

    • @BritDee88
      @BritDee88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Doctor Remulak focus on your girls than since there so hot and fuck off and leave me alone...

  • @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838
    @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    ”I have good news and bad news. Good news I got rid of your cough, bad news you’re addicted to heroin“

  • @yorukaadams940
    @yorukaadams940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +274

    "Doctors do the Devil's work!"
    ah yes, the immortal Karen.

  • @geekuporshutup1751
    @geekuporshutup1751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    And here i was complaining that getting into a doctors appointment these days takes forever.😅😅😅

  • @brittanyramirez2642
    @brittanyramirez2642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Can you do a video about medicines from the Victorian era??

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      lead and mercury. maybe arsenic.
      preferably in ass high doses.
      if that doesn't help, open veines
      good luck.

    • @ultimatebishoujo29
      @ultimatebishoujo29 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting

    • @sarabyczynski4440
      @sarabyczynski4440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A lot of morphine... Heroin an cocaine meds in the Victorian age

    • @brittanyramirez2642
      @brittanyramirez2642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sarabyczynski4440 sounds like a party

    • @stanleycupchamps2009
      @stanleycupchamps2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the wild west overlapped with the Victorian era tbh

  • @Spencer481
    @Spencer481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    "Women doctors were totally a thing in Oregon"
    Me: That's great!
    "She was a big proponent of eugenics"
    Me: Thats not so great

    • @supremesoldier354
      @supremesoldier354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      But eugenics is generally not a bad idea....

    • @blackirish781
      @blackirish781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Everyone practices eugenics on some level.

    • @biancastepney1517
      @biancastepney1517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@supremesoldier354 it's a terrible idea

    • @supremesoldier354
      @supremesoldier354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@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

    • @biancastepney1517
      @biancastepney1517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@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 :)

  • @BeckVMH
    @BeckVMH 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    4:35 Medical care was a “cutthroat business”... doctor severed the jugular as a cure. Apparently medical journals weren’t a thing yet.

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Technically death *is* a cure for all diseases...

    • @thewhitewolf58
      @thewhitewolf58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

  • @RADIOTHEARTIST
    @RADIOTHEARTIST 4 ปีที่แล้ว +660

    1800- 25 cents to see a doctor
    2020- 25k plus crippling debt to see a doctor (for Americans)

    • @beatnik6806
      @beatnik6806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      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

    • @josephj6521
      @josephj6521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Loki Dog true. Health “insurance” can deny claims eh. What a scam but a great industry to work in.

    • @j-n-dfilms473
      @j-n-dfilms473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      RADIO THE ARTIST That’s not hyperbolic at ALL!! 🙄

    • @DARisse-ji1yw
      @DARisse-ji1yw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You get what you pay for.

    • @painful-Jay
      @painful-Jay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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.

  • @annalisette5897
    @annalisette5897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    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.

  • @tamae.j7359
    @tamae.j7359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The use of fish hooks in this one gave me the willies

  • @leebronx8622
    @leebronx8622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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 😊❤

    • @ahabduennschitz7670
      @ahabduennschitz7670 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 😂

    • @LagerLad1
      @LagerLad1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ahabduennschitz7670it's been a year since you made this comment. Do you have any regrets?

  • @sussekind9717
    @sussekind9717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    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.

    • @Thaligamathor
      @Thaligamathor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I guess it's the best they could do lol

    • @nategrinny9626
      @nategrinny9626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I dont remember asking

    • @AlbertoFolres
      @AlbertoFolres 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The cowboy on his horse looks mexican AF. I thought it was Emiliano Zapata

    • @sippinjuice4lyfe
      @sippinjuice4lyfe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He said it wasnt him, in the top left corner

    • @velocitygirl8551
      @velocitygirl8551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That may be the point. Same thing.

  • @corderorojas8614
    @corderorojas8614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Got a Cold? “Oh you need an ear nail” 101f Fever?? “You need a donkey kickin’”

    • @hboogie9127
      @hboogie9127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cordero Rojas I cannot stop laughing at this lmfaooooooo

    • @joesmith289
      @joesmith289 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      B.U.N/ Watcher

    • @davidwilliams2279
      @davidwilliams2279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Might be better than a donkey dickin.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      no boner in sight and missus in bad mood? have this outstanding aphrodisiac made of spider legs and lizard testicles _bone 'er tonight!_

    • @ernesttucker4359
      @ernesttucker4359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great movie

  • @shirleyjones9736
    @shirleyjones9736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I have the same opinion of a lot of the Doctors that are practicing today.

  • @Nic-vf7hi
    @Nic-vf7hi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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 😂

    • @bobbygetsbanned6049
      @bobbygetsbanned6049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It really makes me wonder how modern medicine even got started when every doctor was trying to use blood letting to cure everything.

    • @andrewflowers6794
      @andrewflowers6794 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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...

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dahl was also the host of “Way Out “ a tv show similar to the Twilight Zone. In the 60s.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewflowers6794 You mean they might amputate your leg that is in the middle of the two other legs? 😅

  • @MoneyAwake
    @MoneyAwake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Three ways to die in the West

  • @zuzannahanna
    @zuzannahanna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Just finished playing Red Dead Redemption 2 to see this lol

  • @Miss-Anne-Thrope
    @Miss-Anne-Thrope 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    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.

    • @liisavarhalla6348
      @liisavarhalla6348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      5

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you down feel the pain so much when drunk, you know. especially with lead bullets and fists flying around, you know.

    • @bradwilliams4921
      @bradwilliams4921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They didn’t know any better.

    • @OatmealTheCrazy
      @OatmealTheCrazy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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

    • @timcollum5015
      @timcollum5015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    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.

    • @cheetahnala6120
      @cheetahnala6120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sure sounds great

    • @zachmorris5058
      @zachmorris5058 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Slowing becoming more of a possibility lol

  • @marsbit1711
    @marsbit1711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i’d just go to the afterlife if someone told me to drink sulfur and whiskey 💀

  • @namesomega3694
    @namesomega3694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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

  • @annasahlstrom6109
    @annasahlstrom6109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Unless, you go to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

    • @nousernamewhatsoever
      @nousernamewhatsoever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Loved that show!!

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The real Quinn would have killed her patients too.

    • @angelacase2331
      @angelacase2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of my favorite shows ever

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or Doc Adams

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @lydiafielding8894
    @lydiafielding8894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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.

    • @timcollum5015
      @timcollum5015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They will somewhat, but we actually understand the world around us a ton more than they did in the past.

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    4: Drink until you can't feel your face.

  • @gamerjamessss
    @gamerjamessss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Loving this wild west content you've been churning out lately. Keep it up!

  • @alwillk
    @alwillk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Let me guess. Your options were: Amputation, Bloodletting, Mercury, or laudanum.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *Spin the wheel to chose your treatment...no whammies*

    • @0BRAINS0
      @0BRAINS0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll take laudanum.

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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?

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      that'll be laudanum for me, then.
      COWABUNGA it is!

    • @kbrock9146
      @kbrock9146 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Laudanum for the win.

  • @pathologicaldoubt
    @pathologicaldoubt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...”
    Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!”
    Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.”
    Women: “...”

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A woman was speechless? No way.
      I'm kidding, hacky '80s joke. I'll see myself out.

    • @allisonterrey5641
      @allisonterrey5641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      pathologicaldoubt ah yes, because the male doctors had such high ethical standards in comparison

    • @pathologicaldoubt
      @pathologicaldoubt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      FYI this post was merely meant to illuminate the idiocy of identity politics.

    • @KevinRAAMAAAGE
      @KevinRAAMAAAGE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@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.

    • @Nighthawk268
      @Nighthawk268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

  • @ryanjourney9607
    @ryanjourney9607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Oh purging just sounds lovely. You can still accomplish that by just eating at Taco Bell.

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or at any Indian restaurant.

    • @Lovinia1
      @Lovinia1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ramen and mtn dew together is better than any laxative

    • @pedriinhopedriinho299
      @pedriinhopedriinho299 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lovinia1 TMI

    • @timcollum5015
      @timcollum5015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No thanks. I will take the mercury slurpee.

  • @jojohunt1412
    @jojohunt1412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I’d go to the Native American medicine man!!

    • @evirareid1500
      @evirareid1500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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....

  • @muraygun
    @muraygun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "I'm a doctor too." - Dr. Steve Brule

  • @MyDiesel101
    @MyDiesel101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

    • @conniecrawford5231
      @conniecrawford5231 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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!

  • @tinpony9424
    @tinpony9424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Cowboy: Doc, I got a sliver in my thumb.
    Doctor: Yeah, you need an ear nail.

  • @JohnGalt916
    @JohnGalt916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I mean can we put parentheses around calling them doctors? It's a drunk guy. Who told you got ghosts in your blood.

  • @JoJoJoker
    @JoJoJoker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    In one word: *PAINFUL*

  • @williamkeith8944
    @williamkeith8944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @lucyhannah1227
      @lucyhannah1227 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was one of your patients. Fuck you

  • @cherylcampbell9369
    @cherylcampbell9369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was appreciated you mentioned Native contributions, even if they weren't recognized back then by most.

  • @robertmason6928
    @robertmason6928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Going to a dentist would interest me

    • @ingunakirsteine4336
      @ingunakirsteine4336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That's the barber you're looking for, not a doctor.

    • @pudgeboyardee32
      @pudgeboyardee32 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @alwillk
      @alwillk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't forget the bloodletting at the barber!

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *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*

  • @acarguycandreamright634
    @acarguycandreamright634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I just love this channel.

  • @ajamesarellano
    @ajamesarellano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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

  • @notsosilentmajority1
    @notsosilentmajority1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definitely interesting. The early settlers really were tough people. They are so under appreciated today.

  • @abefariss
    @abefariss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I saw “snake oil” in the thumbnail and I immediately thought of RDR 2

  • @nicke1903
    @nicke1903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm here for the Red Dead Redemption2 comments....

  • @JordanR1621
    @JordanR1621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded. He was dead." 😂

  • @JenniferMenendez522
    @JenniferMenendez522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I would like to think that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would have been my physician. (😄)

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The real medicine woman killed most of her patients.

    • @JenniferMenendez522
      @JenniferMenendez522 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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? 🤷🏻‍♀️ (😆)

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JenniferMenendez522 😹😹😹

    • @timcollum8695
      @timcollum8695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jane Seymour can give me a physical anytime

    • @andreo.7633
      @andreo.7633 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course u would 🙄

  • @safiiiyyyaaa
    @safiiiyyyaaa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video! Love everything related to the old west! But please do a video about courtesans during roman times!

  • @johnpossum556
    @johnpossum556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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_.

    • @johnpossum556
      @johnpossum556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

  • @steveruby2120
    @steveruby2120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    I wish someone would have written down Native American cures. I think we would be better off.

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Ummm... Probably not.

    • @steveruby2120
      @steveruby2120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The combination of what they knew and what we've learned would make us better off.

    • @BigBangAttack-mt6pz
      @BigBangAttack-mt6pz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      At the time, yes I think they were very good with natural medicine

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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.

    • @steveruby2120
      @steveruby2120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      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.

  • @pim1234
    @pim1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great channel ! Glad I found it !

  • @snippyJ
    @snippyJ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That must be where the old saying comes from about if it doesn't kill you it should cure you. LOL

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *doesn't mention the fact that you may be cured but a bit....off afterwards*

  • @hansg6336
    @hansg6336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Epitaph on old west tombstone- I told you I was sick!

  • @ukmedicfrcs
    @ukmedicfrcs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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 ).

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @ukmedicfrcs
      @ukmedicfrcs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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! ♥️

  • @kirbybot8370
    @kirbybot8370 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really appreciate this channel. Thanks so much for the fun informative vids hehe.

  • @mathgasm8484
    @mathgasm8484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Doctors after drug laws " We need medical cocaine!"

  • @asherwhite25
    @asherwhite25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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
      @joshuaroe1402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Asher White That is quite an accomplishment doing all of that while suffering from a mental illness.

    • @asherwhite25
      @asherwhite25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

    • @mikshin9825
      @mikshin9825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She must have been quite good at pretending to be male. In those days she would be driven out of town or shot.

  • @bradprather6749
    @bradprather6749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for another great video. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

  • @larrydesmond5935
    @larrydesmond5935 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best TH-cam channel ever, good job keep on doing what u do !!!!

  • @georgiaboy7674
    @georgiaboy7674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's amazing how far we've came since then. I'd love to see technology in 100 years from now.

  • @The_DevTato
    @The_DevTato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    1800s flu: i have yee'd my last haw.
    2020 corona: 蝙蝠汤

    • @cirquelady_8723
      @cirquelady_8723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      GirdleMcSturtle lmao😅😂😂😂😂

    • @crazybrickstudios7482
      @crazybrickstudios7482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      For anyone who doesn’t know what that means, 蝙蝠汤 means “bat soup”

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      try to dig for gold when banned to home office, mate

  • @arostwocents
    @arostwocents 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Binge by Tyler Oakley was actually an advert that made it sound tempting! Gonna search for reviews now.
    Good video too, thanks.

  • @Rj-qx8id
    @Rj-qx8id 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Liking this before I go to bed. Good night!

  • @brantleyhester6641
    @brantleyhester6641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I had fever once and the only cure was more cow bell

  • @richardyoung4616
    @richardyoung4616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would want Doc Adams from Gunsmoke, he cured everyone!

  • @anthonygonzales2385
    @anthonygonzales2385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in Placerville! I never thought this little town would be mentioned! 😂🥳 I almost dropped my phone when it was mentioned lmao

  • @MzzzNettie
    @MzzzNettie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ahhh, good old Hangtown. I love learning little tidbits about the area.

  • @9sore
    @9sore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    **Goes to the doctor in the wild west**
    The doctor:
    poor leg with a minor rash, it’d be a shame if i had to
    *TAKE IT*

  • @drob8612
    @drob8612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Do one on Freemasons or secret societies!

    • @da1uheardabt
      @da1uheardabt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fucking normie

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Freemasonry isn't a secret society; we're listed in the phone book, for Christ's teeth!

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! What a fascinating and shocking history, a real "A-ha" moment!

  • @stephensonjoe
    @stephensonjoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Well, I have to be “that guy”. Placerville is pronounced “plasserville”, not plaiserville

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely fine by me.

  • @BadThingsInHistory
    @BadThingsInHistory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching this made me want to learn more about the medical schools that taught these Doctors. They believed in some strange remedies.

    • @howardberkowitz5379
      @howardberkowitz5379 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @BadThingsInHistory
      @BadThingsInHistory 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@howardberkowitz5379 Thanks for the suggestion!

  • @bottomratmom7329
    @bottomratmom7329 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this episode. I always look forward to new ones.

  • @KeenPotato
    @KeenPotato ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    * looks at his soft serve chocolate swirl and frowns *

  • @ginasreview1030
    @ginasreview1030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @glizzygladiator8055
    @glizzygladiator8055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blisters are so easy to handle too, I can’t believe they just covered it with more pain.

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "For the most part, medicine was a cutthroat business"
    Glad to see nothing has changed. >__>

  • @quickscopeoneeighty9158
    @quickscopeoneeighty9158 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm still sceptical about going to the doctor. They wont "cure" you. They'll only "treat" you...

  • @raymond8875
    @raymond8875 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Remember, not all doctors were A students.

    • @kmarch6630
      @kmarch6630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think the doctors I go to got their degrees at thrift stores.

    • @Davepool-hs7vr
      @Davepool-hs7vr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You still call the person who finished last in med school Doctor

    • @quickscopeoneeighty9158
      @quickscopeoneeighty9158 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *are not were

  • @JFLETCH92
    @JFLETCH92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He shows the picture twice, but the man standing above a man behind a tent is actually embalming him. Trust me, I'm a mortician.

  • @ashleymason6052
    @ashleymason6052 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Middle school teacher here! Love your videos. ❤️ I’d love to see a video about teacher expectations/requirements in the 1800s-1900s.

  • @GemmaJadeYT
    @GemmaJadeYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁

  • @lauraflotron9707
    @lauraflotron9707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

    • @howardberkowitz5379
      @howardberkowitz5379 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fleming didn't understand the potential therapeutic uses of penicillin, which had to wait for the WWII effort with Florey, Chain, and others.

  • @luigidisanpietro3720
    @luigidisanpietro3720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sulfur with a whiskey Chaser? SING ME UP!!!!

  • @lisasheffield9706
    @lisasheffield9706 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loving these video's 😉😊😁😎

  • @moomoomoo33ass
    @moomoomoo33ass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And 4 thousand years before , the ancient Egyptians were performing successful brain surgery........🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As were the Mayans...

    • @moomoomoo33ass
      @moomoomoo33ass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gunslinging Bird true stuff. Europeans think the started everything. Not so

  • @allim.5941
    @allim.5941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I go to a VA hospital for my healthcare, we’re not to far off.

  • @maddieb.4282
    @maddieb.4282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

    • @CrimsonRose29
      @CrimsonRose29 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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).

    • @maddieb.4282
      @maddieb.4282 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 😂

  • @lindahouston9331
    @lindahouston9331 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this channel! ❤️ Wow! I had no idea that doctors defended their territory quite like that!

  • @Edmund._.Dantes
    @Edmund._.Dantes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Remind me never to complain about the VA again 😐

  • @japhygato
    @japhygato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You know doctors sort of 'wing it' now right? I'm in the field. It's sadly true.

    • @CrimsonRose29
      @CrimsonRose29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      japhygato do you ever guess when diagnosing someone just to get rid of them? I’m genuinely curious

    • @placesaroundus
      @placesaroundus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Marie they don't even do that. They say nothing is wrong

    • @kellycholman
      @kellycholman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@placesaroundus yes, any ailment they don't understand is therefore psychosomatic. They send you to a therapist.

    • @DonaldGerbino
      @DonaldGerbino 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes true ,our bodies heal themselves and when they don't the doctors are stumped

  • @cindytaylor4262
    @cindytaylor4262 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this channel! What about a video on medieval dentistry?

  • @ecdact
    @ecdact 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the video! Please make a video about the Salem Witch trials!

  • @pyramid_iremide
    @pyramid_iremide 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    were the first couple mins of this video reference in your old west video, or is that just me