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- Diseases inevitably belonged to life in the Middle Ages; there was virtually no hygiene and sanitation, making it difficult to survive near-perpetual diseases.
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Would be nice if your music wasn’t overpowering the voices. It’s beautiful music but too loud for the people speaking
Lol
Agree
Go watch something else then!
Lol Rude Comment. It's a free show.
I agree it seems majority of programs no matter what the music ALWAYS overpowers the voice...😠
Should I be awake right now? No. Am I going to stay awake just to know what could have killed back in the day? Yes yes I am
SAME
Wow.
The most dangerous thing back in the day was ... Your fellow human, they burned people at the stake back in those days for looking at each other the wrong way.
Hi person from a year ago.. same haha
this video is a volume rollercoaster.
Yes it is 😖
I'm glad I'm not the only one having volume struggles
What a brutal and horrific time to be alive. I'd sure love to go back and experience it, though, for like a week. These poor people have my deepest sympathy.
Not me.... They have absolutely nothing I desire
Maybe only for a day or 2. Only more if it's in a place with clean drinking water and food. There's no way I want to be more than one day in a place that requires me to drink water from their poo sewage places, or sleep around all these bacterials.
But it would probably be safer to just remain here. We'd be like the natives in Columbus times, not used to their colds and other diseases.
Like a week
Am grateful to be born in this time where we have electricity. AC and heating in our home's, refrigeration, indoor plumbing, medicine, supermarkets They had nothing.
They had everything they needed
What you don't know you are missing eg electricity, technology ... You would live without. People didn't live as long as today & death was very common. Religion was important & I think people Had a high pain threshold & were generally a lot fitter. The ignorance of germs & bacteria didn't help. They probably had pretty good immunity from being sick & in contact with germs more than us. If someone was suffering & inconstant pain, death would of been a relief for them & their love ones. Thats my belief.🌓🌈🌅🌠
They had Faith, so they had more than we have now.
Birth natality was lower, but if you survived childhood, you could live as long as someone today. Humans have existed for a long time and have always managed to survive. Electricity and technology are not things given for free, but knowledge of nature is. We have never been so oblivious about ourselves and our own survival. Additionally, we are also killing all other beings in nature alongside us.
I'll second that, along with modern medicine. We've come a long way from leaches and stupid religious reasoning.
Interesting stuff and good storytelling, but the music doesnt fit. Many people say the music is too loud but I think the problem is that the mode of the music is higher than the narrative. Less dramatic music would probably be better
The interviewees are often too quiet. Music during narration also makes it difficult and at times impossible to understand whats being said clearly.
SkeLEETal
The ways of healing in the past should make us all wary of man's insight/belief he actually understands anything until revelation is compassionately granted to him.
I wonder how the medieval world looked upon those suffering from hidden disabilities. Did they believe that someone who looked perfectly normal could be in constant pain and chronically fatigued? My daughter has fibromyalgia, and finds attitudes of some even in the 21st century can be confronting and cruel. I wonder how someone like her would've managed centuries ago.
I shudder to think of it. Support seemds non-existent. And of what we would consider "minor" birth defects today? Things that are corrected in a single, simple surgery? they could have been lifelong terrible disabilities which fortunately we've learned to correct with relative safety and ease. We've moved into the "fix it, don't shun it." Antibiotics helped tremendously. As late as MY lifetime diseased or injured children were abandoned or sent away. They were literally "sent away" if they survived. I was told I "just made the cut" because my father insisted that I was retarded and could be simply discarded. From the view of modern medicine, I have mild ADHD and serious PTSD from my treatment as a child. I'm certain I'm not retarded. I had me tested! I'm pretty much between the navigational beacons. My father's attitude at female children never really did change. From his perspective, you got either a legitimate child (son) or a burden (daughter) and I was reminded how I ruined things by being born first. NEXT TIME I'll know better, right?.
Robyn, I suspect mother's would've identified these matters and dealt with them quite differently. Probably the farmer community would've practiced these matters with a constant on going strategy of maintaining herd health as observed in animal care and practices consistent with how their beloved live stock mother's deal with their offspring. The hunter gatherers nomadic lifestyle would differ greatly with tribe and geography but would generally be celebrated as a return to god.
Eradication would of precluded long term diseases in most cases.
The capacity of the individual to carry increasing load was all- physics biology law etc .
it could be bs but from what I've heard the Spartans didn't accept anything but a strong perfectly healthy child. I'll spare the brutality of the rest.
@@briandstephmoore4910 A record would be ideal. I suspect the Spartan mother would've been tasked knowing full well of the potential for brutality she likely would have chosen asphyxia either at her hand or drowning. Most mammalians remove the infant from the protection and care of the nest; relying on natural elements.
Maybe their hidden disabilities out in different ways like they complain about the pain or cant be working as fast as the rest etc. Maybe in medieval times they would also see this as a disbalance of the humours. Cant imagine what freaky remedies you would get for fibromyalgie, rheuma, migraines, auto immune disease etc.
My father, a dermatologist, was one of the few American physicians who was an expert on leprosy in our modern time.
That's pretty cool
Listening to this means that we were capable of compassion even before we understood these diseases. It gives me hope because during the AIDS crisis I worked with many fellow educated healthcare workers who refused to take on patients that potentially had the under researched virus.
This is understandable
That's a ridiculous statement.
"I worked with many fellow educated healthcare workers who refused to take on patients that potentially had the under researched virus."
It's the human nature. Nothing has changed since the middle ages. In fact people are worst today.
Personally if i were you, I wouldn't blame those workers a bit. Back then people didn't know a lot about it. Plus it's a horrendous disease. Noone would want to risk their lives back then.
"We were capable of compassion" says the ppl that went off committing gen0cide and spreading disease bc they had to steal everything not bolted down to get ahead. HILARIOUS.
29:47 This video just made me brush my teeth again for good measure 😂
this is why being alive now is way better than in the "good old days"
In some ways, certainly. However, today we have pharmaceutical companies convincing us that the medications they produce are the “miracle treatments” for whatever condition we might have, while downplaying the litany of harmful side effects they carry. We have forgotten that there are a lot of natural, highly effective ways to treat or cure many different illnesses and conditions and instead want that “miracle pill” instead. We also have so many additives and genetic modifications to our food that it is leading to a vast array of health problems non existent in times past. We are certainly living in better times, but have our own self imposed problems.
the good old days does not refer to the middle ages
@@makuIa no it doesn’t, but people always refer to “the good old days” when in reality they weren’t much better- no matter when that time was.
I liked this video. One of the most interesting things i learned was how some of the people in the middle ages were so much more kind about how they treated those with lepracy compared to how the people later who sent them away on the ships. It seems like the people who showed kindness were a lot more enlightened then the more modern people in some ways.
The "Dark Ages" were nowhere near as dark as we like to think.
@@82dorrin ... Certainly not much " Darker " than these dim days of Social Media, anyway - and certainly, there was a whole lot less INTENTIONAL misinformation flying around ...
@@bobbart4198agreed. it seems like this time we're living in should be called "the darker ages"
So it's okay if more people get it?
You are certainly the best historical presentation on you tube. Very professional and usually not essential biased. Thank you. This was especially interesting.
The way "skeletal" is being pronounced is really throwing me a loop! Anyone else? (Love these documentaries. Thank you!)
Excellent documentary!!
That documentary is awesome I have MS but I can deal with it now. Knowing the destroyer cam b beaten
Good luck-prayers for you ❤
The title of this video is misleading, You should rename this documentary to Medieval history of Leprosy since its pretty much all this documentary about, rather than being a documentary about the most gruesome diseases of the middle ages.
Thanks for presenting this informative part of history.❤
It's a great piece. Thanks. Music is fine, doesn't seem overpowering to me.
Fascinating documentary. Thank you for the upload.
Turn the voices up please!
Or turn the music off while people are talking! If the music was turned off while people are talking, the volume wouldn’t be an issue.
Hugely interesting. I very much loved it and learned a great deal. Well done.
Great Work!
I'm usually distracted (annoyed) by the soundtrack musis in youtube documentaries (and yours was a little loud.) However, it is pretty good. Any links to what the recordings are? Cheers. P.S. where these conditions/diseases also rife around the world around the same time or was it just local to Britain?
Sanitation in Britain was worse. So was diet. Some places were better, others were worse.
They knew about sanitation in the ancient world, but there were times that extreme Conservatives took over, then belief in science, and anything other than social dominance, coercive control, and crushing deliberately imposed poverty, were allowed to happen.
Poverty wasn't just circumstance, it was imposed and enforced. It's how Narcissists and Psychopaths maintain control of society.
The loud music is only at the very first minute of the introduction. The rest is fine.
Very boring and dry documentary. You get no empathy of the victims. Only lab-uncertainties. So .. ok.. why i see this?
@@AvalonDreamz Conservative doesn't just mean the modern American political party. Someone being conservative means they are usually resistant to change and prefer doing things the already established and old ways.
From a book called "Great Disasters" the so-called "sweating sickness" of the late 15th C seemed to have only affected the British.
So, people back in the 1300's were more caring, more compassionate and humane about the sick than those who came many hundreds of years later. Sad...
The rampant individualism led by capitalism… anything bad that happens to us in this life we deserve because it it’s our own fault. So nobody should help you. it’s that really disgusting sick logic that’s behind the way we are in this culture right now- speaking specifically of the US but it is prevalent in other parts of the Westernized world as well
Because of the community they lived in. IMHO we barely have a community anymore. We put grandma and grandpa in homes and move on with life. Yeah no more communities.
@@graceamerican3558 ion know what u mean by "we" My good sir lol
Umm yes and no. It was also for selfish reasons like they said like saving their soul.
If that's the message you took from this then you need to watch it again
Turn the music OFF! TY
Music isnt the problem its your phones eq
@@Danniedorito I do not use phones.
Please do convert more of your documentary episodes into podcasts!
It's a privilege too learn.
"Messing" around with other humans usually is dangerous to one's health even now!
I went to the Island of Molokai only to discover the story of Father Damien.
He was a priest from Belgium who lived amongst those who suffered with Hansen's Disease aka leprosy helping them in many a way!
He too surcommed to the disease several years later.
It is a magestic, magical and mesmerizing place. 😌 🌴
There is a story about a sanitarium in the U.S. in Carville, Lousiana, written by a patient there in the early 1900s. I stumbled on "Miracle at Carville" at my local public library when I was in my teens and it was a wonderful book. The author is Betty Martin.
Many comments about the loud music.
Not in my device.
Of course leprosy is curable. Mycobacterium leprae is sensible to many antibiotics.
Excellent documentary.
Thanks a lot.
I dont think the music is too loud its just not fitting
The music wasn't loud to me either ... It's amazing how many diseases back then are little more than a nuisance now. I'm sure theyll say the same thing about HIV in the future. Kudos
I enjoy all of the History Hits videos.
Future archaeologists will curse our dedication to dental hygiene.
Love the Counted Cross Stitch original designs!!! From a Retired RN & fellow Needleworker.
Wonder if friends and family thought they were being punished too. Having your boyhood friend or your mother catch a terrible disease, and have to do something to help and get sick or leave them for an alms house
Or they thought they were being given the chance to do good deeds to get into heaven by taking care of them.
I've been looking for years for an excuse to quit brushing my teeth. This is awesome!
Be honest. You quit years ago and have been searching for a retroactive justification. ; )
Ever notice how well the teeth are on Neanderthals? Not one cavity. Worn down some but they had all, their teeth.
That's funny
I didn’t brush my teeth. Now all my savings are in my mouth as dentures. Brush your teeth 🪥
@@annacostello5181 I refuse on the basis that I was told to do so. I will die with teeth black as night
If only ppl back then knew how to clean better.
Some people with Leprosy were also sent to live out their days on Tiber island (isola tiberina) in Rom, Italy. It is the oldest running hospital in Europe. Today it's more of a maternity hospital.
Thanks ~🌟
How can you not, be able to tell between 45 years of age and 90 years of age, I do not understand?!?!
The scariest condition is when Ebola is comorbid with Bubonic Plague, which is called Ebonic Plague. 😵
Oh no- horrible!!!
I'm well read, but never heard of this. Thanks for the info
Is this a joke...?
"I'm not quite dead yet"....
"OH, don't be such a CRYBABY!!"
-with apologies to Monty Python
Relax. You will be soon
I'm feeling better.
The interpatation of the word leprosy in the Old Testament does include other skin afflictions as well as leprosy. In Leviticus 14:1-59 explains a ritual sounding leprosy. In chapter 3 the Bible says, and I paraphrase, the priest is to go and look at the person before the rituals to make sure the person has been healed. The priest must also check to see if the skin afflictions are in fact leprosy, as many other diseases can look like leprosy. The Bible does also make mention of heald cases of leprosy. This is a ritual, not a healing. It's misinterpreting the Bible that puts a bad name to leprosy. Keep in mind you must research the Bible to get it right just as the doctor speaking must be careful of misinterpreting the bones she studies. She's doing the same thing she asserts the Bible of doing...misinterpreting. However, these are details in the Bible most would never look into. You would not need to be an expert in Bible interpatation, but you would have to put a great amount of time to study and understand the meaning of many parts of the Bible in context. This is a great video and important to understand what we, the human race, went through during the Middle Ages. It inspires me to understand it in more detail.
A powerful disease is hatred.
The Bible is a fantasy book get over it.
The Bible is NOT a reputable history source.
I have not heard that Hansen's disease is incurable.
Tough times when it took a miracle for anyone to get to 80 years old😟
or 50 for that matter.
??? Current world average lifespan is a decade younger. E.U. and U.S. average is 77-78.
That's still mostly due to childhood mortality. If you made it past the age of 21, then the average Medieval lifespan increases to between 62-70 years.
Oh yeah!!!😂I think living to 40 & having half your children alive would of been quite lucky & fortunate🤔🤗Life was fragile....
Have you guys seen what the life of the average 80 year old is like? Lonely and in pain 😮 no thanks. We have glamorized living long too much.
Great program, I learned much and I share it with many. Please turn down the music. Thank you.
Thanks for your time and consideration. Amen Philadelphia USA
The drawings make them look in great shape
I was excited about this video... until I realized it was more about the soundtrack than the info the documentary was supposed to be about. . . . 😕
Biologic Archeology. What an interesting career choice. 👏
Molokai Island in HI was a leper colony
Background music is too loud, it muffles the person speaking
Is it perhaps possible that you increase the volume a little bit? It would be greatly appreciated.
Hear, hear!
Of the music or the vocals? ; )
@@taylorlibby7642 , there is only music on the first minute or so at the introduction. Not the rest.
@@RoxanneM- Horsepoop. I only made it halfway through because of the overbearing soundtrack that drowned out the vocals and the 6 commercial breaks in less than 20 minutes.
Good afternoon everyone
I’m watching this a year or more after CZcams says it was published, and I don’t find the music to be a problem, the creator must have made some edits.
They had special doctors or I should say, healers like druids or knowledgeable monks who were educated to learn and support sick people for the sake of early science.
Don't forget about the pigs and chickens running around the yard.
Has anyone taken the time to realize just how lucky we are to even be alive today? Just think about this fact for a moment. A case of leprosy, the plague, sweating sickness, pneumonia, influenza, famine, infections, childbirth and complications from childbirth plus so much more could’ve easily killed the people that we are descended from resulting in those of us who are alive right now never being born. Are we here just because of mere luck regarding the health and welfare of our ancestors? Why did they survive and not others?
The other thing that I find interesting are the genetic traits that we inherit from these ancestors. On my mother’s side of the family we all (ancestors, grandparents, parents, kids, etc.) have inherited an unusual and very aggressive form of osteoarthritis which has resulted in everyone (literally!) having to have arthroscopic surgeries on various joints plus the majority of the larger family having had at least one joint replaced. (I’ve had five thus far.) In doing family history we discovered a Medieval English ancestor who is the first person to bear the last name of Cruikshank (a person who has a crooked leg or who walks off kilter due to disease or other causes) denoting that he either had a form of arthritis that twisted his legs or that affected his ability to walk. My mom held a meeting with her many cousins and when she brought up the Cruikshank name and how OA had severely affected her part of the family. The rest of her cousins said that they too had the same kind of arthritis in the feet, knees and hips that Mom and our part of the family did. This is just my own experience, but I find it fascinating to think about those ancestors and their lives and feel grateful that for whatever reason they were in good enough health to carry on our family from generation to generation until now.
I would of died during 4 of my labours , loosing to much blood, haemorrhage breach, childbirth fever where I had part of placenta left in my womb. Childbirth was risky & often fatal back then.
We are very lucky. But also keep in mind death was very very normal to these people. Most didn’t even really fear death as we do now. Also everyone was religious most people saw death as the time they got to go be with God ❤
This could have been a interesting video were it not that you cannot hear a word for the ridiculous music whenever someone speaks! Only got about 1/4 way in before I gave up!
The loud accompanying music makes watching this video an exercise in futility. Such a shame as it's beautifully filmed. If only there were a way to turn up the speaker's voices and turn down the music. Such a shame.
lovin the dark knight music
I had a character in Crusader Kings 3 who caught leprosyand then smallpox and then typhus, and survived all of these
Must have been a miserable time to live
Check your audio levels, voice is drowned by the “background” music.
I have no issue and they have closed captions too
can the music be a little more louder? I can still hear the narrator. ffs!
my gosh! a really good docu drowned out by its own producers! CUT the music, PLEASE!
Hey producers, how about lowering the volume of the dark, eerie music so that I can HEAR THE GODDAM NARRATION! Terrible production..
Mix is off and the overly dramatic soundtrack is drowning out the information....again.
Thr number of ads here is so infuriating it makes this unwatchable. You get fewer ads on cable
Interesting subject, but the background music was overwhelming.
Music is way too loud, but others a great video.
Can you make the music louder, I could almost understand what they were saying
I am confused. I don't know if I was watching a documentary or listening to a music recital. Fortunately, I don't have to stay. Less than 4 minutes in, I'm ending the torture to my ears.
The music was a bit loud. I had trouble hearing what the narrator was saying.
Every disease imaginable
Like this guy said ! Animals belong outside!
Does anybody know who the music is made by?
I wish the music was louder. I can hear their voices too much
Ah yes, skeleeeetal remains
Natural plant based cures, antiseptics, pain medication and open surgery has been in practice for thousands of years. Medieval bones have been found with copper plates used for compound fractures and head wounds that healed up beautifully. There's even ancient books showing how they did it.
Don't understand the dishonesty with some of these videos.
How do you know she was accepted? Could she have been cared for in confinement and returned home for burial?
Music. What music?
no gloves to pick up the bones???
Can't really hear the interviews becausethe freekin' music is too loud.
From the title I thought this would cover the medical aspects of diseases in the Middle Ages, but it was more of a social/archeological review of primarily syphillis and leprosy. 🙁
Enjoy these videos but as so many comments below suggest the background music over rides & ruins narration, thus becoming background narration instead of background music which sounds like somebody is babbling in the background. Adding background music during non narrative sequences makes sense but faze the music out completely when narrator starts to speak. Only thing worse is when someone tries a long winded narration in the wind without a microphone muffler or dead cat, I would think whoever edits these videos before release notices the inaudible narration that is an hour long, and mutes or changes the delivery.. Interesting subject to comment on, but being annoyed by the audio, distracted me from my real comment.
What is up with the music? Who thought it a good idea to add such loud and distracting music/sound effects?
Forgive my ignorance... why are the archaeologists & paleopathologists not wearing gloves when examining the skeletal remains?
Skeletal remains have no living microbes on them, especially those that are over 1000 years old.
So they don't damage it you roob 😂
Probably because they know what they are doing.
The Bible says to purchase friends you'll meet in heaven and rich people can't make it into heaven, philanthropy anyone?
I really wanted to watch this video but can’t handle the overwhelming background music makes it too difficult to hear the voices. Just when they stop with the music and I think I’ll be able to actually hear what is being said, they start up again. Awful.
Volume control is on the left side of the iPhone
Shoots I rly wanted to hear your script
The sound mastering did a disservice to the subject matter. The music is overpowering everything!
So by most gruesome diseases, you mean "one gruesome disease."
I agree the music runs over the narrator
Music TOO loud........
It always kills me watching these people touch the skeletons without gloves on
I know they can’t catch anything hundred fears later, but just touching these people with these horrible diseases with their bare hands just freaks me right out the door
I love watching it though
What's gonna happen? Nothing. It's not the diseases mentioned can affect them. The only thing that COULD is anthrax. Which while technically speaking a disease should be classified more along the lines of a toxin. (Just due to the way it acts upon the body.)
Background music was annoying
I would think that having to know the area where a skeleton/bone was found in order to come to a conclusion would skew ones outcome. Why not to the bio research on the bones first..then see if the evidence matches up w the location the bones were found? If all else fails in the biologic then perhaps use location. Seems like cart before the horse here. Let's make the bio line up w the location. Common practice in sciences today....sadly.
Understanding the location is very important in knowing what that person lived like and what was around them at the time. It's a good thing locations are taken into account because that's vital to understanding their role in society.
You don't understand genetic testing in any way if you think "bio research" can tell you all you need to know about a skeleton.