The Bizarre And Brutal Remedies Of The Medieval World | Worst Jobs Of The Middle Ages | Chronicle
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- Most people in the Middle Ages never saw a doctor, instead they were treated by the local wise-woman, priest, or the barber. Before the invention of anaesthetics, people were treated by herbal remedies, violent teeth removal and a whole host of bizarre concoctions. Join Tony Robinson as he explores the worst jobs of the Middle Ages, from arming squires to leech collectors.
1:36 Arming Squire
5:20 Knight
7:16 Leech Collector
12:28 Barber Surgeon
17:10 Wise Woman Doctor
23:44 Cathedral Builders
34:27 Treadmill Worker
41:52 Fuller
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Got to remember that one for cleaning the silverware-sand, vinegar, and a squirt of urine! “Tea time, laddies!”
Tang for my tea
Little caffeine shot
😂😂😂😂😂😂
They had a point tho - vinegar is good for cleaning silverware 😅
Poor Tony...the stuff he puts himself through for our viewing pleasure
The wretching at the end was totally worth it!
Yes, leeches are still used in medicine today, both after reattaching amputated body parts with microsurgery, and after plastic surgery repairs. We have nothing else that works as well. They aren't used to draw blood INTO the reattached finger; the surgeon has no trouble sewing severed arteries back together to supply blood to the finger (or hand/foot/arm/whatever). But even the best surgeon can't reconnect the microscopic capillary network that transmits the arterial circulation back to the venous circulation. Capillaries take the blood that has given up its oxygen and nutrients to the tissue cells, and transfer it to the veins which carry it back to the heart and lungs to be refreshed. So you can get the fresh blood into the reattached body part, but you can't get the "used" blood back out. Not until the capillary network heals. You can see the problem. The leeches are used to suck out that "old" blood so there can be a constant supply of fresh blood to keep the cells alive and healing can occur. Leeches can literally keep you from losing a hand or foot. It may sound unpleasant, but I'd rather put up with leeches than lose a body part. And no, they don't hurt and they don't damage the healing tissue.
Thank you for this very good explanation, I knew leeches were still in use for something I just simply couldn’t remember what.
Actually, he's not completely right. Leeches have snticoagulants in their saliva, do they can suck blood untill they are full. The anticoagulans enhances the microcirulation, not the removal of "used blood" . The quantity would be much too small. Besides, you don't want your patient to become anemic.
I think I could handle leeches better than maggots. Just hope I never need either one.
@coop: Thank you so much!!
That was a great description; I had no idea of what specific purpose the leeches were put to, even though I understood that they were used.
Where I worked we had a old WWII nurse - married to a mortician, whom she’d met as a military nurse and he as a soldier - who looked at a rough, red, pus-overlain lesion on a client, and offhandedly wished aloud that she had some maggots. I asked her what she meant, believing that fly larva were filthy and carried all sorts of nasty germs. The head nurse explained that maggots only eat the dead tissue, so do a fantastic job of cleaning up goo and gore! She said that she’d been around their use back in her youthful nursing care employment.
I’ve never looked at maggots or lesions weeping pus the same ever again!!
Just LOVE Sir Tony! Have to watch all these now! Pop in on the new Time Team please...
Thanks for roughing out the tiz segment Tony. Your dedication to not only telling the job, but actually portraying them is well worth the admiration. The other stuff actually didn't hit me too much. But the pee, that hit a little close
misleading title !
should've been : " Tony Robinson walking in piss after being almost crushed by a medieval crane, having eaten worm stew and rubbing himself with a freshly decapitated eel"
.the one and only.....
shoutout to tony omfg he COMMITTED to EVERYTHING
OH MY GOSH THEY ACTUALLY BAREFOOTED IT!! Man that is commitment!
I worked in urology I know how horrid that could be 🤢🤮
I’m a MA and I’ve smelled my share of nasty pee 🤮
Especially when the person doesn’t drink water so I can only imagine how bad it was back then when no one drank pure water.
Worm soup 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I really enjoyed this. thanks, and cheers from San Diego
The barber surgeon acts like he still does procedures. I think he does. He has all his tools maintained still and knows exactly how to use them.
Ever wonder why there were no Medieval gyms? Didn’t need any. Think of the great shape you’d get in by employment as a treadmill worker!
Former farmer Chad, now blind and in his 60s, physique of a Greek statue and nobody sees him flinch at the height.
I think the poor eel got the worst of it… poor guy. Couldn’t at least give the guy a sharp knife?
They could have killed it mercifully.
Great show! Love Tony.
Super interesting and hilarious video!
Great episode really enjoyed it.
In my punk rock days with The Feederz band we had a handbill we posted: the grisly search for bodies continues (and we had a portion of the help wanted of the newspaper on it.
I think a few more ad breaks wouldn't go amiss.
love this host
Actually, military medicine was very good for the times. Many military grave sites show horrific wounds that healed long before death. Everybody else had to deal with the medieval medicine shown here.
Aye, I believe operations and medicine of the flesh is a more appropriate way of saying that. I've seen the skeletons you speak of, if not similar ones. However, some of this is a bit hocky. Henry V's face had surgery at its best, an average Joe probably was getting the worms and humors lecture.
Not that it doesn't make sense in a way, with some things
Specially in spain
I am laughing so hard every single time he gags! 😂
I love Tony so much! He's simply the best :D I really enjoy his videos! They are simply the best :)
Sadly, tho, his voice is so hard to hear in this video. It's too quiet and distant, having slight echo in it (at least in the beginning. Couldn't watch more than 3 minutes because I didn't hear him almost at all). His voice also drowns under the music which is too loud. If his voice would be clearer and stronger while music not being too loud, this would had been perfect!
I experienced none of this...
Get your ears checked. His voice was fine.
Agreed 100%
I literally gagged during the worm soup 😂
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe he tasted that wicked worm soup.
"Tastes like chicken, but its snot"!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wyrmes could have very possibly been a reference to snakes.
Plantain helps nettle sting. Not more nettle.
Tony and Johnny Knoxville should do an episode together. My two favorite masochists.
Hi Baldric, I mean Tony.
when I was a nursing student in albuq nm at pres hsp in '71..i was assigned a pt, and the dr came in with leeches to use on the patient's arm.
All I can say is, "Better you than me, sir."
23:10
Same. 😂
Quick lime sounds like the ancestor of pop rocks candy!!!!!!!🍫 😂😢😮😅😊
I will live with the netle sting.
Forget the worm stew!
Back then it was cutting edge technology. They sucked it up.
18:02
This eel died for your warty sins.
Generations to build a cathedral but only 20 years to build the pyramids and without the wheel at that!
Yeah, RIIIIGGGGHHHTTTT!!!!!!!!!😂
17:11 "But if you couldn't afford a colonic irrigation from a barber-surgeon, then for your day-to-day ailments you'd probably visit the Wise Woman."
The Wise Woman? The Wise Woman?? Two things, my lord, must ye know about The Wise Woman. First...she is...a WOMAN! And next...she iiiis..."
I like the 21st century.
Really didn’t need the sound effects while Tony was talking about the barber surgeon!!!!!!!!
If you get a big black eye and the swelling becomes unbearable. a hungry leech will provide swift comfort in a matter of minutes. Medical techniques have greatly improved in the last few centuries.😊
Fun fact... leeches are still used in medical procedures to this day...
I hope heat stroke was respected back then for knights. I imagine it taking a lot of lives.
It wasn't at the Horns of Hattin, much to Saladin's delight
The knight at the beginning saying his assistant had to carve his meat was so random... im pretty sure he means his pee pee meat...
No way Jose .
He killed an eel for the show. How could he!
I started eating my dinner just before the wise woman segment. 🤢🤢🤢
I have a cunning plan.
where the saying " piss poor" comes from.
Piss poor is the shortened form of “not having a pot to piss in.” They were so poor they couldn’t afford a chamber pot.
@@animaanimus8011 I don't know which of these is funnier
How is urine such an amazing chemical and such a predictor of disease 🤣 alchemy is fascinating
What kinda giant worms are those??
If it were my own urine, and I drank loads of water, I might be able to handle the wool walking 😆
Wait a second this is the guy who played BALDRICK?
THAT is why l recognized him. Thank you!
Leeches and / or bloodletting, treatment for all disease, also called, iron reduction therapy.
"German physicians report leech treatment relieves the excruciating knee pain of arthritis more effectively than conventional drug therapy."
Really? I’d be willing to try it. It’s a lot less invasive than total knee replacement.
Leeches are STILL used by some Dr.'s, Today, like plastic surgeons ....to draw blood into an area operated on to improve circulation or get circulation To the area... and lessen the possibility of the newly (attached) or reattached area dying
i could almost smell that urine through the screen as they were fulling the wool
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The wise woman!! The wise woman, their are two thing ye should know about the wise woman!!
You think thats bad , wont to try been a Gong farmer!
I had to search the word, and wish I hadn't... 🤢
BALDRICK!
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Ugh!
I couldn't think of a better tester for all these cures. Too bad he didn't get the full treatment, but then he complained vehmently about the leech. Obviously he was never in the military where you del with the leeches when crossing slow moving streams and stagnant water. Tony is suh s woos.
That's a step to far? I saw u walk in pee bro. For nothing really, we don't live in the 1600. U did that for fun.
Medieval medicine is bad enough without watching him kill something. Was it necessary to actually kill the eel? Stopped watching after that. Cruel.
I was not expecting that either.😕
ikr! i mean, it was like 2004-2006, but nowadays this episode - and I hope it didn't happen again in the others - is completely disrespectful to vegans and animal rights activists
And now they have turned to animal abuse. What a shame. I'm never going to watch this series again.