Bizarre and Bloody Practices of Medieval Barbers
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Barbers in the Middle Ages were excellent multi-taskers. It’s true: a lot of surgery in the Middle Ages was done by so-called barber-surgeons, a medieval precursor to the old dude with the combs in the blue water down the street. But they did a whole lot more than just cut people open. The list below features some of the surprising - and often disgusting - things that medieval barbers did besides just cut hair.
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Went for just a trim, left with a full blown appendectomy.
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Do the weird history of the victorian surgical theatre. Where the public was served food and watched live surgeries without anesthesia.
@@Letthat they had about a 50% death rate on the table I believe, many more died from infection, could you imagine the screams?
The lengths people go to for entertainment, lol
Bread& circus. Keep them dazzled, entranced with entertainment...pay no attention to what's actually going on around you, just ask us, we'll tell you all about what's happening...we will whether you ask us or not, just look at the Glamour of Hollywood(true magicians & alchemists since antiquity make their magic wands with wood from the Holly tree...to cast spells with etcetera...)just keep going to perform a task with the majority of your youth & time to provide for you & yours that in which God&Nature already provides ALL with for FREE, don't even think about trying to realize that we have monopolized basic necessities of life for our few to not toil in fields but be served by you, the masses/general population/first name average last name Joe...yea and most importantly, be sure to stay so entertained & entranced by the Glamour of Hollywood to even think to realize that if you all just simply stop nitpicking each other, about propaganda that we spread full of wars we start but place blame onto a perceived people of 'threat', & congregate & come together in a cohesive collapse of a world of inequality & in the destruction of the current power structure, with continued intelligent cognitive cohesive uncorrupted collective work of ALL, with ALL being accountable for who they are, words they speak, actions they perform, all maintaining a balanced sense of unity in the common knowledge of our TRUE PURPOSE of existence & respecting our place & holding dear the qualities&aspects of our newfound Proper way somuch so that we do not faulter now or in future with maintaining an Earth that is Worthy & Stays Worthy for God's feet to fall upon......... ... ... ... ...but hey, why anything about what I just stated when everyone can just keep mezmorized by which celebrity is porking who & something about a kar in a dash to really drive home my point of how far humanity has fallen from TRUTH...
But what do I know...I'm just ol' Butt Turd over here...yea, ya dumbfucks! I am Butt Turd BECAUSE I AM THE SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually one surgery killed 3 people, no anesthesia, one guy in the crowd had heart attack, the surgeon cut himself and got infected dying days later and the patient died, he was known as the fastest surgeon, being fast was more important than anything else to minimize the patients agony
Pretty sure doctors nowadays consider those more vivisections than actual surgeries....
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As someone who has chronic kidney stones, this video makes me really grateful to live in a time of modern medicine, private surgeries, and painkillers/anesthesia!
You got that right. I agree 100%. 😊
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@@diegoferreira2763 this could cause gout, there really is no win win.
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Weird History: Episode(s) about guilds. What were they? What kind of people were they comprised of? Do viewers want episodic dedication for individual guilds? Maybe they do! Is magic real? Do I have chlamydia? Why do I make poor choices?
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For a simple explanation, guilds were similar to unions! They were comprised of the working class, and many of them were men. There were also guilds of working women. They were like a family, making sure everyone was paid fairly, no one was being being treated unjustly, and that if anyone needed anything, they were there to provide. So it was very much like unions!
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Fun fact: doctor-barber from flapjack, is based off of this practice
Did someone say *SuRgErYY?*
So was Steve Martin's character from Saturday Night Live, Theordic of York. It was from the 1970s episodes.
Was just about to point this out!
On the Cartoon Network animated series "The Marvelous Adventures Of Flapjack" there was a creepy character named Dr. Barber. Dr. Barber was way into extreme medical procedures.
I love this channel and I think that what makes it the amazing channel it is and stand out is the narrator! The humor the narrator brings and just how he delivers it makes these topics *THAT* much more entertaining and interesting. I love history and learning about these things and I've tried to watch other channels kind of like this one that touch on such topics, but I just can't get through the videos because this channel is superior due to the narrator. Please never leave!
Kudos to whoever writes the narrative for these. ..
Not only informative but also entertaining and humorous. Thanks.
Do a video on court room jesters! Either a general history of them or a video focusing on the most famous ones and their exploits. Or both!
They already made one.
@@Archbishop_of_the_Noodle well aren't i lucky dog
My assistant, Roseanne Roseannadanna, was supposed to research that topic. Instead, she gave me a report on courtroom gestures (with a focus on the gavel strike).
That fact that anyone survived this is amazing
My last name is Barbour (Scottish Barber). I remember growing up kids would make hair cutting jokes lol. It never bothered me but I thought it was pretty cool when I learned they were also surgeons and would pull teeth too
A report on ancient execution methods could be interesting. Since the 18th century the guillotine has been famous. The story is not what you might think. Dr. Guillotin didn't invent the machine and was opposed to capital punishment. However, as he could not get support for abolishing it, he did the next best thing.
Executions at the time were quite horrible and dreadfully painful and if one goes further back in time they probably weren't any better. So he advanced the idea of using a machine that had been invented long before as quick, less painful way to carry them out. He was actually trying to make the distasteful process more humane, or at least less inhumane.
There is an episode about this topic
it'a been done, I believe.
When I was a kid I thought milk chocolate was a small brick of chocolate that you add to a glass of milk to make chocolate milk. That seems to be the method of thinking used by these people.
Not at all. In the story about the Doctor Who stopped using boiling oil, he employed the scientific method. They were more advanced than you think.
I used think brown cows gave chocolate milk and white cows white milk... It's what I was told. I had interesting aunts and uncles...
Did anyone else laugh when the medieval textbook said that bloodletting helped to alleviate anxiety? Lol. "Hi, welcome. Have a seat while I cut a major artery and remove a large amount of blood from your body. Relaxing, right? Feel that anxiety just disappear..."
I love your videos. Could you please do a video on Middle-Eastern civilizations, such as the Sumerians, Philistines, Mesopotamians, etc?
That's why surgeon are not called "Doctor" when they gain FRCS after their names. They're not considered physicians anymore, but a breed apart. Operating theatres did evolve later, an amphitheatre with the operating table in the centre. I remember beer shampoo being sold back in the 80s, however some of the brands of booze that you mention would be reminiscent of urine, watered down urine, mind.
I was hooked on bloodletting when it mentioned it would produce a singing voice!! 🤣
You have to say, medievil people really did work extremely well with what they had
When I was a teenager, back in the 70's, there was a homeless man who got around Tweed Heads. He had beautiful shoulder length silky hair that fell perfectly, just like you want your conditioner to do. When asked how his hair was so beautiful whilst the rest of him was dirty and decrepit he simply said that he washed his hair every day in the first urine of the morning.
Lends a whole new meaning to the phrase “Just take a little off the top!”
Everything just looks painful in those old photos. Haircuts, brushing teeth, eating. No matter what people did, their facial expressions just look like they are going through agonizing pain 😂
It was a horrible existence. It was unbearable just to be alive. I would have killed myself, it was that bad.
In 1000 years, WeirdHistory will mock our methods. Let that sink in 😁
I saw a real medical textbook from this era at the British Museum in London.
So some historians believe that after the blood bowl ban of 1307, barber surgeons wrapped a bloody cloth around a pole outside their door to advertise? Huh. I wonder if that's true? It sounds plausible.
Love the bloodletting " commercial" same thing they do in the US with questionable prescription drugs. lol
The only surgeons we can afford without health insurance
“…shook up the status quo like a can of shaving beer”. Just a brilliant call back. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
"Uh... When I said 'take a little off the top'... I didn't mean a trepanation!"
" sounds like the opium is doing the heavy lifting there" 😂😂
Awesome 👍 😎 video 📸.... Thank you 😊.... Be safe everyone 😉....
I am so glad I live in a time where medical practice is much better. No, it's not perfect but my goodness the changes and strides we have made since the Medieval times is insane. I would love to go back to that time and live just for a day or two to see what it was like.
same, i always thought it would be interesting to "enter" medieval times as an invulnerable ghost, a spectator, just to see what the hell is going on out there
Something about Bloodletting reminds me of another treatment for a current disease...
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I can't quite out my finger on it.
But its something they do whether you're a little sick or very sick with this disease.
And once you receive this treatment, you're more likely to die from IT than the disease itself.
Hmmm. 🤔🧐🤔🧐🤔🧐
"I've never had anything you doctors didn't try to cure with leeches." -Blackadder, from the Blackadder comedy TV series.
The best comedy TV series to ever have been created, frankly.
@@katiefrankie6 Agreed
These are bloody bizarre.
Yes! Medieval videos are my favorite!!!
This narration is HILARIOUS! “Anything other than a second bullet would have felt better in a gunshot wound” 🤣🤣🤣
Call me wierd but I love this channel. Thank you for all the entertainment you have given me at 1:00 at night and can't sleep.
I absolutely love the bloodletting ad narration, it's so amazing
What a crazy time! I can’t believe the did blood letting in 1942!!
I'm sure there's some hippy still doing it even today...
Why not? We were doing horrible treatments like lobotomy then.
@@catherinejohnson1354 that’s true I didn’t think about that.
you should do a piece on Paracelsus. The alchemist who started most medical practices, cured what was incurable with simple methods, philanthropist, and murdered in his sleep
How can this man cure what is incurable? The most modern technology, the most brilliant surgeons, scientists and physicians on the planet can not cure what is incurable.
@@FelisThis for your answer I point you to the book Goodbye to Germ Theory. Brilliant doctors have cured these diseases, for that I point you to the Gerson Method
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The Gerson terapy/method is not sanctioned in the US. There is no scientific evidence that Gerson cures the uncurbale. It however would be an interesting and controversial topic for Weird History though.
Arabs and Egyptians did most of the inventing.
The wax appendages/organs is straight up bizarre.
My dude, the Narrator, forgot one important part of Bloodletting - to quote Grampa Simpson, “It angries up the bloooood!” (you know how Abe would exaggerate the last word of his rants/sentences! Lol!) This was a great one about Medieval Barbers! And here I thought they were all about pageboy haircuts, bad fades and the infamous “Friar Tuck” hairdo… shows what I know! Lmao! Keep it up, y'all Be safe and healthy! Peace and Long Life! 🖖😎
Hi Weird History. I would like to make a request. Can you make a video about Papal hat/crown? Thank you
I had read that The British Medical journal had cautioned that if a menstruating woman touched uncooked meat it would spoil the meat.
(1880s or ?)
Any info on that would be interesting 🤔 Amazing how far society has advanced. Thnx for the great videos!
Many cultures still believe that.
That’s true.
They don't want period blood on their meat and tampons weren't a thing lol
If you wanted a good doctor back then, you wanted Ambrose Pare.
Omg
Can you do a video on medieval blacksmiths?
I ♥️medieval videos so much! I don’t know I would’ve lived long during that time. Thanks Weird History for the enlightening video! Much ♥️& best wishes. Have a great day/night all! ♥️
I wouldn't of lasted 2 days.
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Your parody of prescription commercials was hilarious. And did great at pointing out how ridiculous they are
You should probably do a video on the history and uses of turpentine. I've seen a couple of your videos now where you mention turpentine seemingly unaware that it is Pine Gum Spirits, not that chemical paint-thinner sold as turpentine today.
I’m sure all these medieval barber-surgeons were quite sober fellows who never imbibed during working hours…..
"...helped shake up that status quo like a can of shaving beer!" Absolutely fantastic callback.🤣🤣🤣
Medieval Logic: I'm a barber... Barbers cut hair... Therefore, barbers are the most qualified to cut your body for surgery
When I was in nursing school, we were studying surgical nursing and I was lucky enough to get in to watch the most respected, local gastrointestinal surgeon remove my patient's entire large intestine and connect the end of his small intestine to a stoma located on his abdomen. The last step was to remove the anus and seal that wound with stitches since he wouldn't need it any longer. When the surgeon examined the perianal area, he said, "This has not been shaved." The orangey-brown of the povidone-iodine solution used to sterilize the skin was there, but hairs were sticking up and they were obvious. One of the OR nurses said, "I'm sorry, doctor. That was my fault. I can do it right now." The surgeon said, "No, I'll do it myself. Just bring me the razor." He lathered up the area and began shaving off the hairs. I'll never forget what he said next, because I cracked up and almost fell over. He said, "This reminds me of the days of the Barber Surgeons." Only a couple of us in the theater got the joke. The surgeon was well-pleased with us.
I saw the thumbnail for this video and remembered that experience. I remember being glad that I had been fascinated and even horrified by primitive medicine and surgery (turned out to consist mostly of superstitious nonsense that tended to cause more harm), so of course I read up on it. I ended up hating on Galen and his followers for the harm they did over a thousand years with their "laudable pus" theory. They'd beat up anyone who dared question the great Galen and insist that poultices of animal dung be placed on wounds after surgery "so that pus can form and thus the wound can heal. A wound cannot heal without the formation of pus!" they claimed, those idiots. How many people died because of them? It's hard to say.
IMO, Ambroise Pare was one of the most fascinating characters of the barber surgeons. His writings and illustrations, especially the "monsters," are incredible and often fanciful. There should be movies made about Ambroise Pare.
How about being a barber in the Wild West?
Gotta love living in the modern times, if I'm sore I can just pop some Tylenol. Imagine going to the barber for a headache and you get drained 2 pints of blood to get rid of the "toxins" lmao
If I’m sore, I just suck it up and don’t worry about taking anything.
“Shaken up like a bottle of shaving beer” by far the greatest line of all time
I was wondering how many others caught that line. A true classic!
One of my fav CZcams channel and it’s getting better and better
I would love to learn the history of farriers
My favourite part of this whole video is the cartoon bottle of urine shampoo that says ‘Gluten free’ on it.
Some parts of the Thames are FINALLY safe to swim in. Here in Oxford some parts Have been tested and proven to be safe for bathing!
Did you make a video about those Monte Python “Bring out your dead!” guys? The guys who picked up dead bodies during the Plague? They had a period of great job security!
“I feel happy!”
“Look, you’re not fooling anyone, you know.”
Katiefrankie6, what are you talking about?
@@PollyAlice2000 It’s a quote from that part of the movie! An old guy not yet dead is being loaded into the cart and doing everything he can think of to avoid being trucked away. Meanwhile the person wanting to load him on the cart is trying to convince the cart guy that the old dude is honestly about to snuff it and please can he just accept the not-yet-dead fellow on this round. It’s my favorite part of the film!
Wait, wait, wait now... blood letting is not a wholly ineffective treatment. I'm sure it was for 99% of the things it was used for, but there are diseases like hemochromatosis where bloodletting is the actual modern day treatment.
A+ video!
What a crazy profession to be a Medieval barber!
went and got my haircut, Got a shave, had teeth cleaning, got my appendix taken out. Full day full day.
But just imagine if you had to go to a bunch of different places to get all that done, then that really would’ve eaten up your time.
A field surgeon during the Civil War was very dismayed about having to amputate legs and arms. He tried everything nearly literally to try to stop gangrene. The saviour of soldiers limbs he discovered in a very old medical pamphlet that In ancient Egypt Doctors used garlic. So the doc would clean the wound/ wounds. Then stuff a clove of garlic into the bullet wound. He had the least amount legless of soldiers after fact.
Funny thing is, i had hemocromatosis, and had to be bloodlet, and that description of what it did checks out lol
I'd like to see a video about the midwives in the middle ages! 😊
Thank you for this! 💈
great disclaimer at 5:08-5:32, but you forgot to add "for a death lasting more than four hours, seek medical attention."
😂😂🤣🤣🤣💀 The list of possible side effects of bloodletting. Add this to my ever lengthening reasons as to why I love Weird History.
Who was the first person to suggest boiling oil be poured into a gunshot wound, let alone all the potential Nobel Prize winners that came after carrying on the practise?! It suggests to me that the human species has an inherent stubbornness that we shall never be rid of.
Well there was some interesting things here but I already had a good idea what the barber surgeon did.
Did you ever wonder haw the barbershop quartet came about. When the barber was carrying out surgery it could get quite noisy, because of the amount of pain involved for the patient and the lack of painkillers not given to the said patient. So the barber would leave out sheet music and musical instruments for his other customers so that their singing and music playing would drown out the patients cries. From this came the barbershop quartet. Though having heard four men dress as barbers from the start of the 20th century singing in close harmony some of use prefare the screams.
"stiff drink"- Hahaha!
But seriously...GREAT ONE!
The editing on this video Is just divine
The most hilarious commentary yet. Loved. And thank God and or Gorn I was not born in medieval times!
I’d love to hear about medieval Archers.
Would be crazy to live in a time where you could conduct an impromptu or planned medical experiment and advance medical practice that much which benefits so many people for centuries to come. We should be thanking these people everyday of our lives 🙏 ❤
I agree 100%. He was a bit unfair to them.
Thank you for this video! 😀🌹
I love this guy! I always Crack up. Love this channel, always so interesting.
Can you do a video on the Comanches?? Specifically Quanah Parker. It is such a crazy story that’s rich in weird history!
Love these videos!
The information in this video is bloody great
"bloody great". Bah-dum-dum-tsss! 🩸
Redken actually had a shampoo in their men's line called Clean Brew. The shampoo itself was an Amber beer color, and even the bottle looked reminiscent of a beer bottle...
Although I'm not sure if the product actually contained any beer or not, I do recall it having a (verrryyy light) beer fragrance mixed with some 'masculine' botanicals.
There was also a shampoo called "Body on Tap" that contained beer back in the 70's/80's. I remember the commercial "it has beer, but DON'T drink it"...quess why they discontinued it? Yup! Some morons were drinking it and getting sick. People can be so stupid.
great ep. i feel like u already did a vid on this already tho...
"Medieval Barber Theodoric of York - SNL" is one of the great comedy sketches of SNL and it's on CZcams. Search on that and see what it was really like back then.
"What you need is a good bleeding."
"But I'm bleeding already."
"Hey, who's the barber here?" 😂
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I'm actually surprised that Opium could be dried, reconstituted, then only the vapors inhaled, and it works at all.
“You won’t see human urine on the shelf at target anytime soon“…
I guess your target is a lot nicer than mine.
😂😂😂
"Never cauterize wounds with gunshots!" ... Even back then they were making overtly obvious labels for the stupidest of humans!
Daaaaaang..... blood everywhere...
Hello team! I would love a video about french candy and pastries or just the history of American candy
Interesting subjects on this channel. Background commentary sometimes kills it
“Like a can of shaving beer” genius line!
Can confirm, I saw Busch beer soap at the store yesterday! What's old is new again.
Basically, the egg yolk, rose, and turpentine concoction was like a medieval version of essential oils.
I'd have left out the egg yolk (it could rot) but the rose water, which smells good, and the turpentine, which does have some antiseptic properties known since very early times, seem like a good thing.
I went to a house party where there was a consultant selling essential oils...not too far off from that mixture
These days I might take my chances with a barber. 💈
With proper training and equipment I'm all for small town barbers like the ones in towns with no medical facilities nearby being trained in more than basic first aid for emergency situation as a stop gap to keep people alive till higher trained medical help is available, or basic wound care and whatnot provided it was in a separate sanitized place from the shaves and whatnot. Or God forbid a massive casualty incident they could set up a triage center at the barber until the disaster unit or whoever got there.
I will never look at a barber pole the same again 😂
Do a video on doctors and dentists in the wild west like that in the movies
That bloodletting ad was great