What Was Healthcare Like in Medieval Times?

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  • Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
  • Join Medieval Historian Matt Lewis as he uncovers the world of Medieval health care,
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    00:00 Introduction
    01:11 Medical Practitioners in the Middle Ages
    02:23 Humors
    04:51 Uroscopy
    07:53 Bloodletting
    12:48 Cauterisation
    14:17 Enema
    15:25 Leprosy
    18:43 Black Death
    24:22 Legacy of Medieval Medicine
    #historyhit #medievalhistory #middleages

КОМЕНТАРІ • 83

  • @markaurelius3119
    @markaurelius3119 23 дні тому +56

    😂 this man is pure charisma ! Very entertaining 👍

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 23 дні тому +31

    The good doctor here is simply amazing. Fantastically entertaining, witty, knowledgeable, and fun to listen to. Excellent presenter.

  • @briganja
    @briganja 22 дні тому +13

    This doctor has me wheezing. His ‘humors’ must be very well balanced, because he’s hilarious (and it’s infectious)!

  • @elgersmam
    @elgersmam 18 днів тому +5

    Please bring this presenter back for more. HE. IS. A. LEGEND.

  • @randylahey1822
    @randylahey1822 23 дні тому +20

    I could watch stuff like this for hours, both entertaining and informative at the same time while maintaining a solid production! 👍

  • @jimferry6539
    @jimferry6539 23 дні тому +38

    It’s like we’re going backwards, now days you have to wait three weeks for a telephone appointment just to end up speaking to a trainee junior doctor. I might aswell just ask a barber what he thinks 😅

  • @Paperskinglassbones
    @Paperskinglassbones 23 дні тому +8

    No one sacrifices quite like a physician who tastes urine for his patients

  • @69JONESYrugbyCHAPELHILL
    @69JONESYrugbyCHAPELHILL 23 дні тому +6

    You can see the "weekly Bills" of death for London in this inexpensive book:
    "A Journal of the Plague Year: 1665" Daniel DeFoe

  • @jillobrien6291
    @jillobrien6291 22 дні тому +3

    Love when Matt does his solo episodes on the gone medieval podcast. Also love Eleanor content

  • @jarodmasci3445
    @jarodmasci3445 23 дні тому +9

    The humors still exist whenever people waste money on foot patches and anything that "rids the body of toxins". Plus enemas are still a thing that people seek out to cure all sorts of things.....

  • @pheart2381
    @pheart2381 23 дні тому +11

    Love the sound effects

  • @gso619
    @gso619 20 днів тому +1

    I love his unnerving enthusiasm.

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 8 днів тому

    I love Matt's face as Kevin (?) describes different ways of help for people. He is truly thrilled, and his videos and books show his passion. Get "Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine" today!! Wonderful.

  • @gregkral4467
    @gregkral4467 23 дні тому +3

    Wonderful presentation. Thank you very much folks.

  • @deborahsolimine5438
    @deborahsolimine5438 23 дні тому +4

    This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!

  • @ProfessorM-he9rl
    @ProfessorM-he9rl 20 днів тому +1

    Fascinating post, thank you.

  • @jillobrien6291
    @jillobrien6291 22 дні тому +2

    Please can you do more irish content. Medieval ireland has so much good history

  • @Hugh_Morris
    @Hugh_Morris 21 день тому

    This was fantastic to watch, thank you very much

  • @javasrevenge7121
    @javasrevenge7121 23 дні тому

    Great upload, thank you for sharing.

  • @Feline_Frenzy53
    @Feline_Frenzy53 23 дні тому +1

    Great video. Very interesting and entertaining.

  • @54mgtf22
    @54mgtf22 22 дні тому

    Always interesting. Great job, HH 👍

  • @africanpagan6338
    @africanpagan6338 23 дні тому

    That was a great Video, thankyou

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 8 днів тому

    Matt!! I am just now seeing this! Wonderful!

  • @sablewright8053
    @sablewright8053 16 днів тому

    Very interesting. Informative 😊

  • @filmfan4
    @filmfan4 18 днів тому

    Brilliant! I thought this was going to be another video, laying into medieval medicine, but it was thoughtful and balanced. Nice one!

  • @pentegarn1
    @pentegarn1 22 дні тому

    This was the greatest thing I've ever seen!!! :)

  • @Shadow__133
    @Shadow__133 12 днів тому +1

    I had a doctor recommend blood letting with leaches and donation because my iron levels were high 😂

  • @massmike11
    @massmike11 22 дні тому +1

    Leaches have been found to be effective in transplant patients to help keep the blood flowing to the new part.

  • @OthmarsVlog
    @OthmarsVlog 18 днів тому

    awesome 👍🙏💥

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 День тому

    Really interesting

  • @crp110
    @crp110 23 дні тому +2

    This looked real interesting but I can't stand the camera movement.Only got a few minutes in 😢

  • @philbcaes
    @philbcaes 22 дні тому

    I think I seen Kevin at black country museum in the pharmacy. Very knowledgeable chap 👍🏻

  • @netto6681
    @netto6681 7 днів тому

    They certainly do still ask the “have you sinned?” question - it’s just that these days, it takes the form of “how many units do you drink a week?”

  • @rosaliegolding5549
    @rosaliegolding5549 5 днів тому

    It took ages for my Sister to get an appointment for her secondary chest infection she spoke the receptionist and said no appointments for her can be made and come back another time she diagnosed her and deemed her problem was inconsequential the next day she persevered and got 🙏 the appointment Dr then stated she was lucky she didn’t leave it for another 2 days she would have developed PNEUMONIA . Sister stated that the receptionist diagnosed her as not important NOT BRINGING DOWN THE NHS AS THE NURSES WORK VERY HARD AS I DID AS A NURSE , BUT THEY ARE CUTTING BACK AND MANY PATIENTS ARE IN STRIFE PLUS THEY HAVE TO GO LONG DISTANCES FOR ANYTHING TO DO WITH PATHOLOGY ,RADIOLOGY , COVID CLINIC’S ETC I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA AND THIS IS ALL MY FAMILY STATE GOING TO THE DR AND DESIGNATED CLINICS IS ALMOST AND HAVE TO WAIT MANY WEEKS CAUSING THE SYMPTOMS TO EXACERBATE THE SYSTEM IS IMPOSSIBLE .ESPECIALLY IF YOUR AGED NO TRANSPORT OR FAMILY AND LIVE ALONE . HERE IN AUSTRALIA WE HAVE NO SUCH PROBLEMS BUT MAYBE IN TIME THE OPPOSITE WILL CATCH UP WITH US LIKE IN THE UK 🥺🤷‍♀️

  • @davidmarsh8852
    @davidmarsh8852 23 дні тому

    Diabetes type 1 would also produce keytones (sweet urine) during ketoacidosis. This is usually when someone's body is at the beginning of type 1 and their body no longer has any insulin producing cells (it's an autoimmune).
    Type 2 isn't new but it is increasingly common as it is from insulin resistance and is treatable with diet.

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff 23 дні тому +1

    OK

  • @RPG_Angie
    @RPG_Angie 19 днів тому

    23:42 "And that poisons your blood," he smiled.

  • @Bluer0binn
    @Bluer0binn 23 дні тому +1

    this channel 🤝getting through my history GCSE

  • @IMJACKMADDEN
    @IMJACKMADDEN 14 днів тому

    Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

  • @ThatMargaret
    @ThatMargaret 9 днів тому

    This was so funny

  • @mky45lg
    @mky45lg 22 дні тому

    "It's for your own good..." 😆

  • @lucianograff6512
    @lucianograff6512 16 днів тому +2

    Funny guy

  • @anmnou
    @anmnou 13 днів тому

    I would have been happy to be in the care of the Empirics 😊

  • @tammyhawley9555
    @tammyhawley9555 22 дні тому

    Very interesting but the fella in the waistcoats pitch in his voice was incredibly annoying

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 8 днів тому

    Matt, did they know about Diabetes in the 14th, 15th C?!!!!

  • @mangalores-x_x
    @mangalores-x_x 17 днів тому

    the sfx for the leeches is rather distracting.

  • @algini12
    @algini12 23 дні тому

    Kevin Goodman, the medical historian seems to be enjoying giving these treatment statements a leeeeetle too much, lol. He was obviously born AFTER his time. He'd have had fun getting out that lancet and also placing the leeches. 🥺😦💀

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 23 дні тому

    Now I learned why hospitals were sometimes called "lasaretti" in Finnish.

  • @ktwei
    @ktwei 21 день тому +1

    Does any of this work?.....
    No....

  • @blueprairiedog
    @blueprairiedog 16 днів тому

    Glucose appears in urine with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

  • @metalmyke1
    @metalmyke1 23 дні тому

    They are playing reruns.

  • @alexleblanc4202
    @alexleblanc4202 23 дні тому

    "They laid the foundations."
    VERY shaky foundations, in my opinion. I can't get over this "imbalance of humors" nonsense.

  • @DukeDijon
    @DukeDijon 17 днів тому

    i had to pause and read the captions word-by-word when trying to figure out what the guy was saying. maybe give him a script next time.

  • @John.Flower.Productions
    @John.Flower.Productions 23 дні тому +2

    Kevin Goodman should be ashamed of the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness.
    History Hit has 1,000,000+ subscribers and constantly uses clickbait titles for videos.

    • @lorihenderson673
      @lorihenderson673 23 дні тому +2

      Humm
      People in the early late middle ages "blamed sin"
      Go read

    • @John.Flower.Productions
      @John.Flower.Productions 23 дні тому

      @@lorihenderson673 Take your own advice:
      _"the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness."_
      Having a reading comprehension deficiency would likely cause anyone of average intelligence to refrain from attempting to be a smartass. Of course, you seem to be well below that metric.

    • @John.Flower.Productions
      @John.Flower.Productions 23 дні тому +1

      @@lorihenderson673 Take your own advice:
      _"the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness."_
      Pathetic.

    • @emilybradshaw126
      @emilybradshaw126 22 дні тому +2

      @John.Flower.Productions Hi, I just did a quick google search and there are lots of sources that state medieval people believed sin was one of the many causes of illness. I’m now confused. Can you explain how this video misrepresents this subject?

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel1237 11 днів тому

    Pitty about the shit music and loud sound effects ruined the video

  • @kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061
    @kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061 15 днів тому

    ^^;; But wasn't it the importation of Islamic medicine that changed it and were the real foundations of medicine for Europe?

  • @llchapman1234
    @llchapman1234 23 дні тому +2

    People back then didn't know any better. What's his excuse?

    • @maryellencook9528
      @maryellencook9528 23 дні тому +6

      @llchapman1234 It's an explanation of the scientific rationale of medicine from the Medieval period up through the mid 19th century. Some of the theories were fairly sound. Where herbalist are concerned, willow bark tea, ginger, and foxglove were around before Bayer or Astra Zeneca.

    • @randylahey1822
      @randylahey1822 23 дні тому +5

      they were superstitious but not stupid

  • @vintage_violet
    @vintage_violet 22 дні тому +1

    As creepy as the practices were this was good “fun” to watch-great production overall but the leech escaping was the highlight for me 😂🪱

  • @deborahsolimine5438
    @deborahsolimine5438 23 дні тому

    This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!