Kevin Goodman is one of my new favourite historians. Absolute legend, I think we can all agree his witty conveying of history is one of the best ways to learn it! Tops it off with the banging northerner accent Give him more gigs History Hit!!
I just hope he loses some weight for health reasons, his personality for the show is perfect but being overweight is not good for your health long term, and that will mean he will not be around as long as he could be if he had less body fat.
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 😅
When my mom found out she had hemochromatosis (high iron in the blood), I jokingly told her that she is one of the few people who would've actually benefited from blood-letting!
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.
Fun fact, actually use them more so to empty out blood rather than pull blood into an area. Areas with small or delicate vasculature (fingers, noses, toes, flaps etc), usually don’t have much problem receiving blood from arteries, but it tends to get backlogged and has trouble emptying. That build up of blood leads to too much swelling and compression of the still healing vessels, so that’s where the leeches come in! They help clear that backlog of blood so that blood can flow easier, and the body can start rebuilding the micro-vasculature. It’s a pretty work intensive therapy though, since you have to literally stand at the bedside for the duration of the latch (they can detach and squiggle somewhere else), and in between leech treatments we usually have to change a little dressing of anticoagulant every hour. But they’re really cool!
i donated blood once, the nurses said my blood pressure was pretty high. actually felt way better afterwards (not immediately, but for the next week or so.)
I've heard that in some countries, LOW blood pressure is considered more seriously than high blood pressure. Makes sense, not having good blood flow should probably be considered serious lol
@@NaminaWilder speaking from experience, blood pressure being too low is indeed very unpleasant. If you know that rush some people get when they stand up too quickly, that is what it feels like. Except that feeling doesn't go away when you just center yourself. Not a good time. Laying down helps, that way it is easier to get enough blood flow to your brain. Also, drinking enough and eating a lot of salt. And medication.
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.....
Enemas aren’t humors 😂 they actually work if you have chronic medication side effect constipation. Rather use one then try to shit a log the size of a can of OFF bug spray dry
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.
If you think about it, miasma isn’t too far off base. They thought it was bad air making them sick. Well if someone who is sick, or several people sick, all coughing in church or something, then yeah that’s some bad air that you don’t want to be breathing. So they didn’t understand germs or bacteria, but they were kind of on the right track. Of course, they also thought all disease was brought on by sinning, which is ridiculous. We’ve come a long way.
Leeches are definitely still used in modern medicine. I had them used on my lower lip in the mid 1980s after it was reattached and the corners started to swell and turn black (dying). I have small lumps of scar tissue, but they're barely visible. I had an uncle who had three fingers reattached and leeches were used for one of them to help with circulation as well in the 70s.
for the record this is not just "medieval medicine". George Washington died from treatment such as this. he had a throat infection and his doctors performed various folk treatments including removing about 40% of his blood. the last thing you need during a bad infection. but the practice was so established even at that time Washington asked the plantation overseer to start bleeding him before the doctors came to bleed him more.
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. 🥺😦💀
"The masks were not used in this coutry, they were used in Europe." You know that Prexit didn't mean that your island swims away right? UK is part of Europe.
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 🥺🤷♀️
They sustained mainly on vegan diet and worked year thru for whom were tought better people without receiving much for it. They must have had long and happy life as this is allmost modern way of life 😂.
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 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 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?
@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.
A warm compress can be used to help a pimple, why not a burning hot iron for something more serious? Lol. We do still cauterize very often in surgeries
I can’t stand to watch these videos to completion even though I’m interested in the history. If I want to see bs, I go to work. Why am I here on my day off?
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This doctor has me wheezing. His ‘humors’ must be very well balanced, because he’s hilarious (and it’s infectious)!
Please bring this presenter back for more. HE. IS. A. LEGEND.
The good doctor here is simply amazing. Fantastically entertaining, witty, knowledgeable, and fun to listen to. Excellent presenter.
😂 this man is pure charisma ! Very entertaining 👍
They still use maggots and leaches but only for very specific purposes. A clean set of maggots can clean out rotting tissue quite quickly.
Kevin Goodman is one of my new favourite historians. Absolute legend, I think we can all agree his witty conveying of history is one of the best ways to learn it! Tops it off with the banging northerner accent
Give him more gigs History Hit!!
Absolutely!!!
I just hope he loses some weight for health reasons, his personality for the show is perfect but being overweight is not good for your health long term, and that will mean he will not be around as long as he could be if he had less body fat.
@@leagueaddict8357 his weight is besides the point & irrelevant
I could watch stuff like this for hours, both entertaining and informative at the same time while maintaining a solid production! 👍
I love his unnerving enthusiasm.
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 😅
And no dentists!!
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Three weeks? Must be nice.
then you get a receptionist who thinks they can diagnose whats wrong with you
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No one sacrifices quite like a physician who tastes urine for his patients
No wonder they brought him fresh chickens 😂
You can see the "weekly Bills" of death for London in this inexpensive book:
"A Journal of the Plague Year: 1665" Daniel DeFoe
I would like to have this guy on my side when time travelling through the middle ages.
When my mom found out she had hemochromatosis (high iron in the blood), I jokingly told her that she is one of the few people who would've actually benefited from blood-letting!
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.
Leaches have been found to be effective in transplant patients to help keep the blood flowing to the new part.
Fun fact, actually use them more so to empty out blood rather than pull blood into an area. Areas with small or delicate vasculature (fingers, noses, toes, flaps etc), usually don’t have much problem receiving blood from arteries, but it tends to get backlogged and has trouble emptying. That build up of blood leads to too much swelling and compression of the still healing vessels, so that’s where the leeches come in! They help clear that backlog of blood so that blood can flow easier, and the body can start rebuilding the micro-vasculature. It’s a pretty work intensive therapy though, since you have to literally stand at the bedside for the duration of the latch (they can detach and squiggle somewhere else), and in between leech treatments we usually have to change a little dressing of anticoagulant every hour. But they’re really cool!
Just make sure the leeches are hungry and not had to much liver snack 😆
Brilliant! I thought this was going to be another video, laying into medieval medicine, but it was thoughtful and balanced. Nice one!
Love the sound effects
This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!
Wonderful presentation. Thank you very much folks.
“And you could have different shapes! 🤩” 13:40
I had a doctor recommend blood letting with leaches and donation because my iron levels were high 😂
That’s more realistic though
i donated blood once, the nurses said my blood pressure was pretty high. actually felt way better afterwards (not immediately, but for the next week or so.)
That sounds like a great win-win situation
Lol funny thought but I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that XD
I've heard that in some countries, LOW blood pressure is considered more seriously than high blood pressure. Makes sense, not having good blood flow should probably be considered serious lol
@@NaminaWilder speaking from experience, blood pressure being too low is indeed very unpleasant. If you know that rush some people get when they stand up too quickly, that is what it feels like. Except that feeling doesn't go away when you just center yourself. Not a good time. Laying down helps, that way it is easier to get enough blood flow to your brain. Also, drinking enough and eating a lot of salt. And medication.
Dedication to history right her!
Fascinating post, thank you.
His doctor is wonderful! Well dressed, well humored (pun intended) and I just crack up at his wicked smile 😂
Great upload, thank you for sharing.
That was a great Video, thankyou
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.....
yeah, like messy bottoming
Enemas aren’t humors 😂 they actually work if you have chronic medication side effect constipation. Rather use one then try to shit a log the size of a can of OFF bug spray dry
Oddly specific reference point but alright
Great video. Very interesting and entertaining.
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.
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?”
This was fantastic to watch, thank you very much
Matt!! I am just now seeing this! Wonderful!
Love this very interesting and presenters fun to listen to
Always interesting. Great job, HH 👍
FANTASTIC 😂❤
This was the greatest thing I've ever seen!!! :)
Very interesting. Informative 😊
I think I seen Kevin at black country museum in the pharmacy. Very knowledgeable chap 👍🏻
Dr. Goodman! Oh my!
You added sounds for the leech scenes... Right? 😂
Where does Matt Lewis learn all the information on medieval medical practices. I would like to read them too
Please can you do more irish content. Medieval ireland has so much good history
"It's for your own good..." 😆
14:30 that dudes reaction is hilarious
Why was he blinking so much 😂😂
Lepers would also just shout "unclean!" when they had to walk near people who didn't carry the disease. Lepers in India are still treated terribly xx
Really interesting
23:42 "And that poisons your blood," he smiled.
Nice cob house
If you think about it, miasma isn’t too far off base. They thought it was bad air making them sick. Well if someone who is sick, or several people sick, all coughing in church or something, then yeah that’s some bad air that you don’t want to be breathing. So they didn’t understand germs or bacteria, but they were kind of on the right track. Of course, they also thought all disease was brought on by sinning, which is ridiculous. We’ve come a long way.
awesome 👍🙏💥
Leeches are definitely still used in modern medicine. I had them used on my lower lip in the mid 1980s after it was reattached and the corners started to swell and turn black (dying). I have small lumps of scar tissue, but they're barely visible. I had an uncle who had three fingers reattached and leeches were used for one of them to help with circulation as well in the 70s.
OK
this channel 🤝getting through my history GCSE
for the record this is not just "medieval medicine". George Washington died from treatment such as this. he had a throat infection and his doctors performed various folk treatments including removing about 40% of his blood. the last thing you need during a bad infection. but the practice was so established even at that time Washington asked the plantation overseer to start bleeding him before the doctors came to bleed him more.
Does any of this work?.....
No....
Easiest way to check if the patients humor is imbalanced is to tell them your best joke and see if they laugh.
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. 🥺😦💀
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
This was so funny
I think this doctor takes far too much delight in his occupatation ggg
Funny guy
Good career option for medieval non squeamish guy into watersports. "Have you sinned?" No. "Hmm me neither..., here goes...slurp!"🎉
I'm as peasant as it can get and I would only "afford" the hospital "care". Same like now 😑
^^;; But wasn't it the importation of Islamic medicine that changed it and were the real foundations of medicine for Europe?
I'd rather not know, nor ever have to find out, what healthcare was like in the medieval period, thanks.
"The masks were not used in this coutry, they were used in Europe." You know that Prexit didn't mean that your island swims away right? UK is part of Europe.
Yes it is it’s the the EU that’s it’s not part off two different things
This is just a personal preference, But I prefer to have more blood in my body than phlegm regardless of how balanced they should be.
This looked real interesting but I can't stand the camera movement.Only got a few minutes in 😢
Make sure everyone gets their booster leeches at cvs for this year’s humor season
"They laid the foundations."
VERY shaky foundations, in my opinion. I can't get over this "imbalance of humors" nonsense.
the sfx for the leeches is rather distracting.
Now I learned why hospitals were sometimes called "lasaretti" in Finnish.
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 🥺🤷♀️
I would have been happy to be in the care of the Empirics 😊
Glucose appears in urine with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Sounds like traditional Chinese medicine 100%.
Like if I had a sore thoart no problem Id be searching out the preacher instead of a dr.
If the hospital, nearest nunnery please.😂😂
They sustained mainly on vegan diet and worked year thru for whom were tought better people without receiving much for it. They must have had long and happy life as this is allmost modern way of life 😂.
They are playing reruns.
slimy leech sounds 😫
Stop with the idiotic sound effects ffs
Judging by British teeth today I'd wager there was also no dental care in historical Britian.
Have u got any leeches for this 🎉
Matt, did they know about Diabetes in the 14th, 15th C?!!!!
Egyptians and Honey
@@NathanDudani ??
@@josephcollins6033 Egyptians knew about this around the same time of the building of pyramids
Pitty about the shit music and loud sound effects ruined the video
His urine looks like it has blood in it. Hope you went to see a real doctor.
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.
Very interesting but the fella in the waistcoats pitch in his voice was incredibly annoying
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.
Humm
People in the early late middle ages "blamed sin"
Go read
@@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.
@@lorihenderson673 Take your own advice:
_"the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness."_
Pathetic.
@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?
People back then didn't know any better. What's his excuse?
@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.
they were superstitious but not stupid
I hate both of these people for different reasons. Good content tho
As creepy as the practices were this was good “fun” to watch-great production overall but the leech escaping was the highlight for me 😂🪱
This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!
Love when Matt does his solo episodes on the gone medieval podcast. Also love Eleanor content
Love how he smiles it’s creepy but he’s fun to watch 😂
A warm compress can be used to help a pimple, why not a burning hot iron for something more serious? Lol. We do still cauterize very often in surgeries
I can’t stand to watch these videos to completion even though I’m interested in the history.
If I want to see bs, I go to work. Why am I here on my day off?
That Goodwin man made me laugh, I expected him to sing with a banjo or make jokes.