The Sweating Plague Was Deadlier Than It Sounds
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2020
- From 1485 through the latter part of the 16th century, a new plague - English "sweating sickness" - ravaged England and Europe, killing thousands of people. The fearsome disease had many names including, "Sudor Anglicus," "English Sweat," "the Sweat," "the Swat," "the New Acquaintance," and “Stoupe! Knave and know thy master." The dreaded sweat, which took its victims in fewer than 24 hours, was more or less localized in England, but it made its way to the European Continent in 1528.
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*looks at symptoms*
*SWEATS NERVOUSLY*
what a bruh moment
No that's called being over weight
i succ Yes
M E T A
jack sparrow ????
Learning about deadly diseases in Quarantine
@@jenko2247 what...?
John Doe you alright?
Are you alright rosie?! CAUSE WE CAN FIGHT SON!
Catfish!
Yeah I don't understand. Just another John Doe
I think you should have said “he changed his residence about as often as he changed his wives” 🥴
Oh my gosh. 😂😂😂
Omg yes
Didn't he have 6 wives in total?
Divorced
Dun dun
@@ashlynartz1842 died dun dun dun
Sometimes it still blows my mind how anyone managed to get through the medieval times
Aren’t they all dead
@@Fredakruger0666 🤣🤣🤣
True
All of human history has disease, infection, accidents, wars, crimes. Doubt that medieval times was the worst of all.
@@Fredakruger0666 , 😯😯😯😯🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😏😏😏😏
*[Sweats nervously]*
WAIT NO
Me: [Sweating heavily]
*inset coffin dance here*
I’m trying to animate and it’s not working your name tho. I feel your pain.
People in 1485: * sees someone sweating *
*The council will now decide your fate.*
😂
Weird History: Teaching us all not to sweat the small stuff.
What if I have a sweaty dick
@@JS-ob2xt quarantine it.
@@JS-ob2xt put a mask over it
@JS chop it off bro
Greg Miller *condom
Doctors also recommended that they didn’t drink at all, which given the body would be severely dehydrated would have definitely contributed to the likelihood of death!
yeah, that probably didn't help it either. you have to take in what you put out.
How science changes over time 😅
They probably thought the fluids could be a reason the sweating isnt stopping
Doctors: Can't sweat if you avoid the wet!
Disease: I'm dyyyyyyyying!
Patient: I'm dyyyyyyyying!
Doctors: I mean...
@@angelface925 ...that's just logic!
gluttony + no exercise + extraordinary levels of alcohol = yeah I could understand why the upper class didn't like to sweat but c'mon it's not gonna ki- oh wait
I think it's possible that it was fungal contamination involving wine. It would explain the absence of children and the poor getting ill and perhaps the timing especially if it coincided with warmer climate every 10 to 15 years as mentioned in the video. Also the symptoms involving the sense of foreboding could be brought on by a fungus mixed with alcohol. Fungi can also do rapid kidney damage which plays into all of the symptoms.
Brendan Skinner yes this is exactly what happened. And I have proof.
@@michaelcorleone993 care to share?
Brendan Skinner Maybe it’s a form of botulism? Some of the symptoms I’ve read seem very similar (nausea and headaches/other assorted pains). Along with the sudden way it killed people and the class of people it killed, due the food they ate (easily becoming rancid food like meats.).
I find this comment section interesting. I think maybe there is truth to this. Since it killed mostly the upper class, what else could it be?
I think you're right.
One correction: Charles Brandon was married to Henry’s sister Mary; not his daughter Mary.
The Tudor family had four names for women and used them far too much
Technically she was a daughter of Henry. :P But yeah I thought the same thing.
Mary, Elizabeth, Katherine or Anne. That was it. You get to pick one of those for your child. That’s it.
Thank you🙌🏻 was about to comment something very similar😄
Margaret (Beaufort and Tudor) Mary (Dowager Queen and Princess) Elizabeth (Consort and Queen) Katherine (Consorts) and Anne. The creativity.
Meeko Bear and then you just get Jane lol
The upper classes hadn't got that hypothetical earlier disease, for whatever reason - so when the sweat came along, they had no immunity to it and were infected in much greater numbers.
That kinda makes sense
current situation: watching plague videos during quarantine for no reason other than to scare myself
But did you survive?
Other CZcams channels: let's produce and post up lifting content to help people cope
Weird history:
This is helping me cope! It gives me hope to know that 'this too shall pass'. And its entertaining.
@@ngufanikojo6430 Me too buddy
Ironically, knowing that this isn't new is comforting.
I know this is 6 month's later but it's still comforting because it shows how far we've come in technology and hopefully they'll be able to figure this out rather than later.
This is uplifting to me, even in a pandemic we live far better than 99% of humanity already dead.
We swim in our own sweats every summer - Filipinos
Ughhh the heat😵💀
It hurts that i know what this feels
Let's go 41 degrees Celsius
Everyday*
it is so hot rn
Patient: Will I be okay, Doctor?
*Doctor: Sure! Don't sweat it!"*
You ever think that one day there'll be videos like this about the current pandemic and the narrator will say:
"The people who lived at the time believed 5g radio frequencies were actually causing their symptoms."
Not most tho
Lol or that you could be cured by injecting bleach 🤣
They had no idea what was about to happen. The number of brain tumors SKYROCKETED by 2030. At the time they had no idea 5G wad the cause.
All these old pandemics make me thankful for the invention of showers
And vaccines
@@allthingaialf Hummus and tea are things that I never thought I would ever be put together, thus I shall now tell you that cheese coffee exists
@@mandarinsandclementines2997 The cursed drink
VAccIneS aRe thE mARk of tHe bEASt
@Glow Flow nO iT iS thE mArk Of thE beAst
The current situation turning us all into disease detectives.
naa ive been watching plague and disease videos since i found out these videos exist lmao
@@yungmoist6188 me to I just read a very good book on yellow fever
@@karahershey The actual disease or the racist slang term for being attracted to Asians?
"Today, we're going to take a look at the plague that made you sweat to death"
Ah, you mean summer in the tropical countries...
Me: has 5 assignments due tomorrow, 3 ap tests to study for, one of them tomorrow
Also me: hmmm sweating plague sounds interesting :)
Reading this stressed me out and im not even in school.
How did you do? Did you pass even though you took this learning detour? Rooting for you 😁🤞🤞🤞
@@patixabel I forgot about all of it! I did good on everything thank you! :)
@@morgan1736 congrats ! You deserve a break sometimes
Your voice is perfect for narrating these dark, bleak times in history.
Almost like Forensic Files
Damn these Europeans couldn’t catch a break
Lol yessa
oml not once
🤣🤣🤣
It sounds so much like cerebral malaria, fever, sweating, headaches malaise. It also has stomach pains and intestinal symptoms. Perhaps the nobility were close to the mosquito infested areas. The hole in the argument would be children who be infected too.
Yes. I think you are right.
I'm a red cross instructor. All of those symptoms are signs of a heart attack. I wonder if the virus directly attacked the heart, which is why you died so quickly from it?
"No documented cases in children"..........kills famous 13 year old noble.
Bobs22 Puberty = Adulthood in that time. So yea, there were no reported cases in CHILDREN lol
It said he was "13 or 14 ". At 14 he would have been old enough to get married and have his own household, so wouldn't have been considered a child. Even at 13 he would have been old enough to have been sent away to live in another noble's household, which would be like us sending an older teenager off to work, so wouldn't have been counted as a child even then.
Children is mainly kids under 10 biologically
14 was basically middle aged back then.
Yeah... that's what I was thinking
The Sweat: dying of embarrassment for over 500 years!
the sims irl
I'd be interested to learn what exactly caused the deaths of the Sweating Sickness. Was it dehydration? Extreme temperature? Or something else. Pretty scary that they thought it was evil from the ground. Yikes.
Does anyone got jebaited to wipe their screens at first, only to realize it was just a background?
Looked legit
Yes me
I love weird history! U guys the MVP, ya’ll really been helping me get through quarantine 🔥
Agreed! I've been loving folding laundry while watching Weird History. I learn something as I'm doing daily chores haha.
Winnie the Pooh I dropped out of school because I can learn everything from Weird History
No
Salud 74 okay
Me tooooooo!
I dig the new intro y'all are stepping up the game.
Plague inc.: "You have released the Sweating Sickness in Europe" *pops DNA bubble*
I’ve heard it called the Tudor plague as well, came with Henry XII and left England after the last Tudor.
Who else tried to wipe those weird smudges on the right of the video.
Lol scrolled down to find this comment thank God I'm not the only one I tried for almost a minute
That would be ME!!! LOL!!
✋ Right here 😅😂
Yep.
Same
Bad hygiene/eating habits is nearly always the cause of every pandemics.
I thought it was bacteria
I’M THE MAN 🤦♂️
I'M THE MAN It’s not but ok
They didn't understand how bacteria and viruses entered the body. Imagine if you could tell historical outbreak victims that they could slow the plague if they wore masks and washed their hands. I think they would have done it ☹
Kindly fuck off.
I read that one good way to stay alive once symptoms develop was to be wealthy enough to have a maid. That maid would need to swiftly get you to bed and under blankets. If you caught a chill, you died 💀 so the idea is that the maid forced you to remain under the blankets even during the horrible sweating. She'd apply cloth and keep you hydrated with beer (water was polluted back then) til the fever broke. Unfortunately the maids usually panicked and abandoned their mistresses. Also paranoia was a first symptom which turned people a bit hysterical as they were basically waiting to die. So scary 😱
Not all water was polluted
Pee water is still healthy
@@msatxgault560Yes, MOST water back then was riddled with diesese. Now you could make the argument about free flowing springs that weren't, too bad they didn't know the difference.
“Sweating sickness disappeared after the 16th century”
Probably 2020: Interesting...
you be thinking what I'm thinking haha
We’ve usually been able figure out what killed most people from those days in terms of diseases but this one we still haven’t figured out.
HMMM...being stuck inside my house and not being able to get withing 6ft of people really doesn't seem that bad now....
Tye Eggleston you sound idiotic cov is not even a cold
@@xxheartbrokexx100 but there are reports of coronavirus killing people?
A random person but there are reports of cold a flu killing many thousands yearly?
There is a comfort to be taken in our modern understanding of the mechanisms of disease, how these are transmitted and how they attack the body. This understanding may be far from complete, but, before the discovery of microbes, ideas as to just how people became sick- and the best means of warding off sickness- seem terribly scattershot, veering from science to religion to the supernatural. It is good to finally have some focus for all these human efforts, as we still have a lot to learn.
Cedric Crow the flu hasn’t killed millions of people in less than a year
People always make that comparison and it’s so fucking stupid
We say “Lancastrian’s” instead of “Lancaster’s” in the UK. :)
This disease just sounds like an extreme version of common cold. High temperature and easily transmitted. I'd say it is a deadly strain that eventually died out. Probably because it was killing too fast. I'm not a doctor so it is just a hypothesis
Technically, Covid19 is a cold virus 😬 so you could be right. Cold viruses mutate fairly quickly (as seen with covid) and that means you can be reinfected.
Rhino viruses are usually less harmful while corona viruses has been behind several epidemics in modern times. Considering that it can take time for symptoms to become obvious, the timeline might have been longer than people thought.
It almost sounds like some sort of poison in liquor, kids would have gotten it in wine. Just a quick guess is mercury poison from bad batches of booze.
What about the elderly not catching it though?
I did a few minutes of research on my comment, it doesn't seem like mercury poison really. It doesn't look like they had an easy way to make wood alchohol so that's out. The reason I think liquor is poor kids drink ale and rich kids drink wine. I wonder if brandy or gin couldn't still have the fungus. I wonder about the old people, from what I can tell it was being made and marketed as medicine for almost 2 centuries at that point. It seems they would be one of the biggest consumers. The video and nothing I read said no elderly had it however. It does appear this is the time period people in england started drinking for fun and not just health. Maybe it could have been a shunning of the party scene that kept the elderly safe, or marketing of different liquor for different purposes. I found some places reported a 5% mortality rate, and some reported closer to 90%. The average was about 30%. I also ran into an interesting quote from John Cauis "they which had this sweat sore with perils of death were either men of wealth, ease or welfare, or the poorer sort, such as were idle persons, good ale drinkers and tavern haunters" I'm a fan of history, but far from a historian so I don't know how accurate I actually am. Also all I know about alchohol is I like it.
Mercury you is a liquid metal, people got it through using creams and makeups long ago with the Mercury in it, it is really hard to make Murcia your mix with anything let alone a less viscous liquid such a wine
Children would've drank booze back then though
Thats what I was thinking, has to be some kind of poison. Someone hated wealthy ppl.
Every Henrey in the upper class looks identical 💀
Inbreeding for fun and profit!
Shallow gene pool
It was all the same dude, that’s why same face same name. This was Florida Man back in the day.
Time traveller: What year is it?
Me: it's 2020
Time traveller: Oh the first year quarantine
Me: THE.WHAT?
D E L I L A H made me S M I L A H!
(Sorry! I can't resist corny rhymes 🤔)
Nooooooooooooooooooo this joke means there will be more than one year please help me
I don't find this funny...
HELP MEEEEEEEE
😳😳😳😂😂😂👀
Charles Brandon was married to Henry's sister Mary, not his daughter Mary. (I think all women back then had about 5 names between them)
This is true. Same went for the guys.
Henry VIII's father was named Henry too.
You know there's a sweating sickness epidemic when the air start to smell like armpits
Mr. Person Humanson -- or like old tennis shoes.
I always assumed it would smell like rancid meat and armpits. The air would be tinged yellow and foggy
Sour cream & onion ruffles you say? Mmm de-li-cious!
@@HANA-mw1rf u have fetish???
You mean every comic-con I've ever been to? Lol, seriously I wear heavy handmade costumes and I don't reek anywhere near the amount as some of the people I pass by
This sweating sickness seems to be very prevalent during the years of the Tudor dynasty.
The Reformation, too.
The Tudor line was rumored to be cursed. It was thought Henry the 7th was doomed because he may have played a part in the murder of the princes in the tower. First the death of his heir, Arthur. Then his wife died in childbirth. Then Henry the 7th dies. Henry the 8th dealt with the sweat, the protestant reformation, the pilgrimage of grace, and excommunication. His illegitimate son died of consumption. His son died of consumption. His daughter Mary died after a phantom pregnancy. Then we got queen Elizabeth the 1st who lived to a fairly old age and died childless. That whole dynasty was cursed.
Sir William Compton died of the mysterious sweating sickness. When I first heard of the disease I thought "uhhh you mean a FEVER??!!", because I know they weren't advanced at all in medicine, but it actually wasn't a fever (which you can die from if not treated). You gotta love history.
I can't say Thank You enough for doing this channel. Personally I think it's one of if Not the best channel on the internet. I sure wish the history topics in highschool had been this interesting. I thourghly enjoy watching and learning from each and every one that you post. Thank You ! Great Job !
Don’t “sweat” it guys! Weird History is here to save the day!
Ba dum tss.
Weird history knows no history at all!
But could you save this cock?
Chinese Himmrah bitch wtf
Idiot
The visual effect on the bottom right kept making me think my phones screen was dirty.
5:26 looooove that Danzig moment... Mother!!!! 😂😭😂
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to exhume a corpse or two who were known to have died of this ailment? And perhaps take another look at it with our modernized medical knowledge?
The bodies could be exhumed but it is unlikely that any virus DNA could be extracted...
Shout out to Glenn Danzig at 5:30. Didnt expect to see that here.
300 people died in Danzig alone...”Mother”...😂
i genuinely choked when the picture of glenn showed up
I laughed so hard at that lol
LOL! Was looking for this comment🤣👍🏻
@@viv_uriarte same here! :P
I snorted so loud, I woke the dog. Now he's mad at me.
Sounds like everyone's first playthrough of Plague Inc.
Cot deaths used to be called ‘smother in their sleep’. I used to hear my grandma and her friends talking about it. When she put me to bed as a small child, she insisted I slept on my side with the blankets tucked under my arm so I wouldn’t ‘smother’. I always did with my children and they always do with theirs.
Origin: The boy's lockeroom.
why do so many people have that username am i out of the loop. have i become a boomer
@@saouer I haven't even seen one lmao
saouer it’s a dead meme
@@wolfzmusic9706 no
jungus chungus i haven’t seen that meme around for a while. then again, i’m not really a memey person
The fact that it only really affected kind of richer middle-aged people and not elderly or kids makes me think that it was something only rich people could use or get their hands on. And kids weren't allow to have it and older people just didn't care about whatever it was. And so it was poisoning them they just didn't realize it.
Like what product were they using or what food were they eating or drinking during that time that they stopped after the disease seemed to simply disappear? I feel like they may have been doing it to themselves and they just didn't realize it.
That's the first thing I thought like maybe some rare food they had at their meals or something
Drug maybe?
@@fallingformelodies4981 They wernt really known for having drugs back then. Most of their cures for ailments were rub a frog and then piss on it type of cures.
And then there’s the seasonal aspect.
@@Perdoct lol with more reason for there to be a horrible disease, they were probably tripping on a bad batch of shrooms that were on season
This channel is amazing. You should have millions more subscribers. It is literally one of my favourites. As a self described history buff, this is really fun to watch. Thank you! May I make a suggestion? Do a video on The great horse manure crisis of 1894. Sounds funny but it was actually terrible for humans and animals alike. Along with the children who..well I will leave the rest a mystery for those who don't know.
The “War” of the Roses was actually 20 battles that finished 32 years after the first battle was fought, not one battle as many people misconceive…
Isn't that how wars are fought.?
Charles Brandon, the elder, was married to Henry VIII's sister Mary, not his daughter
Unsubscribed
fjf sjdnx The female version of nephew is niece.
Oh thank God! Here I was beginning to think that after all this time, I had just hallucinated Queen Mary's marriage to Phillip II. All is now right with the world again!
And the portrait shown is actually Catherine of Aragon, Mary's mother.
Last time I was so early, this format wasn't a meme yet
Skylar Kay last time i was this early, the comment section was where it was supposed to be
@@Tia-db9zn lmao
@Randomness 101
The comment section hasn’t moved for me. Idk why, but I don’t use the youtube app, I use the internet browser one, so that might play a part
crazybrickstudios lucky
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
― Nikola Tesla
I just found your channel! I love it!!!! So much history - I love history!!!!! Thanks for teaching me things I just never knew!!!! Plus I enjoy watching the things I already know about!!! Thanks for this very informative channel!!!! Pat
7:28
Did they seriously just put a picture of the ship Queen Mary to represent the real Queen Mary?
Vadergamerboss 66 yup
They don't research that deeply and portraits might very well be copyrighted by the people digitising them.
I absolutely love history. But the way it's delivered by you and those involved is just fantastic. Well done!
The sweat seems to have disappeared once modern plumbing showed up. Maybe plumbers are more important than most think.
Let me guess how this happened
“It was god whom was mad at us for all of our sins”
Lol
*Who
@@aliyamuhammed7678 people used “whom” for “ who was/did” in the medieval times
Ohhh.... I didn't mean to offend you but I just had to do it😂
Someone:
Me: sweats profusely
The mention about "Feeling of impending doom" is interesting. Also a documented symptom of Sepsis.
That's a symptom of almost any disease (for me anyway) 😂
I have a feeling of impending doom constantly, all my life every living moment. It sucks
And anxiety
This video definitely put the “weird” in Weird History,” as I had never heard of this before. Congrats!
For some reason I would look up possibility of fungal infection or poisoning of some sort as the culprit, mushrooms can afterall create pretty exotic toxins and it can take weeks until symptoms even occur, so it would have been pretty much impossible to link these two together.
I thought my phone screen had dirt on it
Great video!
Had never heard of this previously!
What a morbidly fun romp thru epidemic history
Interesting to find out more about my hometown, Colchester. Our town has so much history it's ridiculous and I love hearing some of it from channels like this.
i LOVEd the reference to that war of the roses movie hilarious. and Wouldnt mind your guys exploring several other points of history and getting more broad in your subject matter: perse; The many wars and customs of the times between -2000 bc and the 1800s. detailing the spartans, revisiting greek myth and roman history, describing the byzantine empires, battles that were not so popular, the vast french history, the crusades or even asian history of all types. GET CREATIVE. and thank you for the refreshing, light hearted (heheh) videos.. fantastic stuff as always
*goes to heaven
How did you die?
- I did peacefully in my sleep while my family watched me drenching in tears
- I sweat to death
_"Mother"_
Haha I see what you did there with that Danzig reference 👀
Great, it's going to take a week to get that song out of my head now! (Not that I really mind, but...)
I actually hit pause to see who else got the reference! :D
I died when I saw danzig
You had me at “ let’s sweat to this oldie”
I was going to say maybe it appeared to have more to do with upper class because the lower class wasn’t cared for enough to report. But I read a comment saying maybe wine or food which makes far more sense because the wealthy had means to things that the poor did not.
I’ve been rewatching ‘Merlin’ and keep meaning to look up further explanation regarding “the sweating sickness”... so, thank you kindly for making this video at the exact moment I was looking for one! Have a good one!
"I feel ill"😢
"Don't sweat it"
"Too late......."☠️
Love the new humor approach to the channel, keep it up lol
That background of white with random splotches made me think I had weird dirt on my phone screen, lol.
A disease that targets certain age group? why does this sound familiar?
Shut up 🥱 literally every disease targets someone
@@ajyyyvl look behind you're ears
Now you'll shut up, in 7 days.
@@ajyyyvl oh yeah I forgot diabetes, heart disease and cancer target everyone. Not people with weak immune systems or anything like that. I better watch out when I leave my house or breast cancer might target me
@@QuietFury9 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer literally can and do happen to people of all ages, sexes, and ethnicities. *And* men can (and do) get breast cancer.
Not understanding this stuff only hurts you, bud.
I don’t suppose that there would be any grave of a person that died of it to dig up and investigate?
This is just great! Adore history. Thank you so much 😊
the editing is super fun. these videos are so addicting. im in such a rush to watch them all, im sweating. wait...
Playing "sweating to the oldies" in the background while watching this!
Do a vid on Michael Malloy, the man who just wouldn’t die. A funny story on its own but I’d love to hear y’all tell it
Sam O'Nella fan I'm guessing?
Alexander the Great I actually first heard about him on the podcast “Dude That’s Fucked Up” but I partake in Sam O’Nella content too :)
I think they did one on him but I'm not sure
I get horrible fevers and sweat horribly too everytime I am really sick maybe it’s the sweating plague? I don’t know but it’s uncomfortable and I feel like death every time but I live to see another day and am thankful for that.
I'll bet you anything it was a case of some sort of poisonous reaction in the winemaking process of the more expensive wines that the upper-class indulged in. Either that, or it had something to do with an aspect of the diet of the prosperous upper-class that the peasants, children and elderly did not indulge in.
Well that explains why it never appeared in Scotland they all drank whisky.lol.totally different process,I think Ur right though.
You guys deserve way more support than you guys get you work so hard to entertain us
**SWEATS NERVOUSLY**
Why?
“Let’s sweat to this oldie.” 🤣 Good one
I would hypothesize that whatever caused sweating disease operated on the immune system and induced some form of autoimmune response. The fever, inflammation, and rapid development of it sound like a severe immune reaction.
Perhaps something in bad batch of alcohol, and Danzig "Mother" reference made my day :-)
Dude, Caius is said like "Keys".
Yes, thank you! Also, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was married to Henry VIII's SISTER Mary. NOT his DAUGHTER, Mary! Kind of makes you wonder what else they're getting wrong?! 🤔
I'm going through sweating sickness too. It's called menopause.
I have a sweating sickness it’s called oh um 😐 hot flashes lol 😂