What It Was Like Going To A Doctor In Wild West

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  • @QueenetBowie
    @QueenetBowie 4 роки тому +993

    “Clam was wounded from three body shots. Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded... he was dead.”

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 4 роки тому +70

      It checks out, that is indeed more wounded.

    • @QueenStylin
      @QueenStylin 4 роки тому +17

      That made me chuckle.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 4 роки тому +9

      It became quite clear neither hack had ever even heard of the Hippocratic oath.
      Bearing in mind they were the only ones that even came close to a doctor and decided to have a duel...

    • @Me4-gc8qs
      @Me4-gc8qs 4 роки тому +8

      "he died of natural causes". "six bullets wounds is natural causes?". "well naturally you'll die from six bullet wounds...". Can't remember which old western movie I saw that in but i've been trying to find for years. Such a funny statement.

    • @Shuggies
      @Shuggies 4 роки тому +2

      @@Me4-gc8qs lol... just ask Google ... it knowwws... haha

  • @n3v3rg01ngback
    @n3v3rg01ngback 4 роки тому +1397

    I was a veterinary assistant, and I watch a lot of UA-cam. I could have been the best doctor in the Wild West.

    • @niamhgreatdane
      @niamhgreatdane 4 роки тому +22

      Oh god ya 😂

    • @KA-om9oz
      @KA-om9oz 4 роки тому +9

      Ya.....no

    • @ronalddillenger7339
      @ronalddillenger7339 4 роки тому +45

      Keith Adams you right he prolly would have more experience then most of them fools lmao

    • @-gemberkoekje-5547
      @-gemberkoekje-5547 4 роки тому +6

      UA-cam about medicine, biology and Health you mean?

    • @miroslavatanasov5011
      @miroslavatanasov5011 4 роки тому +19

      If your anything like the vets I have visited, I’d rather take my chances with the cowboy doctors. Vets in the us are about money not helping animals. So in a way, the doctors of the time were probably on par with them, taking people’s money for bs treatment.

  • @plinkitee
    @plinkitee 4 роки тому +969

    When the cure is worse than the disease.

  • @qu4980
    @qu4980 4 роки тому +216

    "He was slightly more wounded.
    He was dead."
    Well played sir.

  • @paulashmore4521
    @paulashmore4521 4 роки тому +172

    Had a doctor to tell me to go home and drink beer to get rid of a kidney stone. That happen thirty years ago. Been following his advice ever since.

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 роки тому +3

      Just one beer once you have the stone, or a beer a day to prevent it, or a beer a day until the stone dissolves?

    • @paulashmore4521
      @paulashmore4521 4 роки тому +26

      @@heiroot Don't really know. Passed the stone and never went back to see him again. He never called me and told me to quit drinking beer.

    • @Nate-bn5kk
      @Nate-bn5kk 4 роки тому

      Lemon juice

    • @21stCenturyDub
      @21stCenturyDub 4 роки тому +1

      Well ethanol *is* a potent diuretic

    • @Nate-bn5kk
      @Nate-bn5kk 4 роки тому +1

      @@paulashmore4521 Yeah idk, I've known alcoholics who still got kidney stones...

  • @WestShoreMan
    @WestShoreMan 4 роки тому +293

    100 years ago you go to the dentist and he’d pull your tooth and give you a haircut afterwards.

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 роки тому +17

      A two for one

    • @lizpimentel2566
      @lizpimentel2566 4 роки тому +11

      I'd say more like 150-200 years ago but yeah basically lol

    • @funkworthrollin4959
      @funkworthrollin4959 4 роки тому +4

      Now they fix teeth. And give kids candy afterwards... BRUSH YOUR TEETH. LOL.

    • @kaptainkaos1202
      @kaptainkaos1202 3 роки тому +3

      Don’t forget he’d shoe your horse since blacksmiths did all of that stuff too.

    • @dennisanderson3895
      @dennisanderson3895 3 роки тому +4

      the red & white striped barbed pole symbol represents blood and bandages, dating back at least a couple centuries.

  • @brendencampbell3082
    @brendencampbell3082 4 роки тому +486

    I bet a bar of modern day antibacterial soap would be worth its weight in gold.

    • @gentlegoat6663
      @gentlegoat6663 4 роки тому +37

      Bet you could sell seashells as gold if you're a good talker back in those days..

    • @roblena7977
      @roblena7977 4 роки тому +17

      Witchcraft!!!

    • @zumeybear6883
      @zumeybear6883 4 роки тому +5

      Yep but they didnt know about microbes yet
      Knowledge of airborne pathogens fidnt come for quite some time, not sure exactly if before or around this time

    • @brendencampbell3082
      @brendencampbell3082 4 роки тому +15

      @@zumeybear6883 . America was founded in 1776. Microbes were documented by Antonio van Leeuwenhook in 1665. Your knowledge is disturbing. Please notify your local authorities.

    • @thebiggestofchungi3538
      @thebiggestofchungi3538 4 роки тому +26

      Germ theory wasn't completely adopted by the medical community at the time

  • @teethgrinder83
    @teethgrinder83 4 роки тому +207

    Anaesthetics is one of humanities greatest medical inventions that's for sure lol

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 роки тому +4

      The tidbit of info. I heard from the script of Gunsmoke by Doc Adams was "ice is the earliest know method of [local] anesthesia.

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 4 роки тому +7

      @@louf7178 oh cool-I guess that makes sense doesn't it, ice can have a numbing effect to a degree like local anaesthetic, thanks for that!
      I've been thinking about ops without anaesthetics lately as I'm not long out of hospital from a 2 week stay because I badly broke my leg, needed a metal pin with 3 plates inserted, I've 2 smashed heels and needed a skin graft because they made a massive cut to relieve the pressure, without anaesthetics id probably have either lost my leg from the massive swelling (I had compartment syndrome) or my leg would have healed extremely badly. The amount of surgical procedures we are able to have now because of anaesthetics is amazing, we're extremely lucky

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 роки тому +1

      @@teethgrinder83 Yes, it was an enlightening reality.
      I wish well for your operation.
      And yes, modern medicine and surgery is quite amazing to me. I almost feel the level is tricky point of overload and over-confidence. I definitely feel personal discretion is needed amist the volume of patients, liability, interpretation etc...

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 4 роки тому +1

      @@louf7178 thanks a lot, I'm healing well now I just have to stay off my leg for another month or so, I'm lucky to have my partner helping me put when she's not working
      I get what you mean, some procedures have become so routine I think Dr need to be careful about becoming blasé about them yet I know their professionals. What bothers me more is many of us, especially in the developed world, have become so used to modern medicine curing or healing so many of our problems we've started forget about prevention-the fact we can have triple bypass surgery for example and heart attacks aren't so deadly makes it easier to forget for some how much of a problem it still is. But humans are great at finding it difficult to see long term goals and so for a lot of people (and to a degree I include myself) things like a good diet and exercise just isn't important. Some time soon this will have to change I think

    • @normajeanmorrissey2903
      @normajeanmorrissey2903 4 роки тому

      Contrary to popular belief Union Army gave its patients anesthesia for amputations. Unfortunately, the other things done were questionable at times, such as "bleeding" and "blistering". There was always the wonder drug "Calomel" or Mercury Cl! I am a nurse. I don't ever recall seeing that on my medicine cart! Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.

  • @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838
    @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838 4 роки тому +51

    ”I have good news and bad news. Good news I got rid of your cough, bad news you’re addicted to heroin“

  • @geekuporshutup1751
    @geekuporshutup1751 4 роки тому +113

    And here i was complaining that getting into a doctors appointment these days takes forever.😅😅😅

  • @yorukaadams940
    @yorukaadams940 4 роки тому +275

    "Doctors do the Devil's work!"
    ah yes, the immortal Karen.

  • @Honeymoon1988
    @Honeymoon1988 4 роки тому +415

    I love this narrators voice...

    • @JeffersonSteelflexx
      @JeffersonSteelflexx 4 роки тому +2

      I love you 😘

    • @Honeymoon1988
      @Honeymoon1988 4 роки тому +2

      Dire 💋

    • @missedmurphy
      @missedmurphy 4 роки тому +18

      I get disappointed when I watch one of those videos and it isn't his narration. He's one of the best and reminds me of what's his face from the beginning of Fallout NV

    • @marinasuditu2318
      @marinasuditu2318 4 роки тому +1

      Right? I really wonder who is he. Would be great to put a face to this voice

    • @Honeymoon1988
      @Honeymoon1988 4 роки тому +4

      Doctor Remulak focus on your girls than since there so hot and fuck off and leave me alone...

  • @BeckVMH
    @BeckVMH 4 роки тому +87

    4:35 Medical care was a “cutthroat business”... doctor severed the jugular as a cure. Apparently medical journals weren’t a thing yet.

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 4 роки тому +13

      Technically death *is* a cure for all diseases...

    • @thewhitewolf58
      @thewhitewolf58 4 роки тому +2

      Im just wondering if the wild west breeded more of experimental medicine while the east coast used the more chill traditional medicine that wouldnt maim you

  • @Spencer481
    @Spencer481 4 роки тому +458

    "Women doctors were totally a thing in Oregon"
    Me: That's great!
    "She was a big proponent of eugenics"
    Me: Thats not so great

    • @supremesoldier354
      @supremesoldier354 4 роки тому +20

      But eugenics is generally not a bad idea....

    • @blackirish781
      @blackirish781 4 роки тому +12

      Everyone practices eugenics on some level.

    • @biancastepney1517
      @biancastepney1517 4 роки тому +47

      @@supremesoldier354 it's a terrible idea

    • @supremesoldier354
      @supremesoldier354 4 роки тому +31

      @@biancastepney1517 hey if you want your kids to be born with genetic conditions like blindness deformed bodies and diseases that cause an early and painful death that will make them hate themselves then you do you

    • @biancastepney1517
      @biancastepney1517 4 роки тому +70

      @@supremesoldier354 nah I just want them to not be forcibly sterilized because the people in power decided that racial minorities are impurities on the human species :)

  • @annalisette5897
    @annalisette5897 4 роки тому +63

    Blistering with chili paste might have had some value since capsaicin, a chemical in chili peppers, is now put into topical ointments to treat painful conditions. Capsaicin is said to block substance P which is part of the cause of pain.

  • @RADIOTHEARTIST
    @RADIOTHEARTIST 4 роки тому +662

    1800- 25 cents to see a doctor
    2020- 25k plus crippling debt to see a doctor (for Americans)

    • @beatnik6806
      @beatnik6806 4 роки тому +40

      1 dollar in 1850 is 33 dollars in todays money. 33 dollars = 29e. Visiting doctor in finland costs about 20-25e. So seeing a doctor in american old west costs more than seeing one in todays finland :D

    • @josephj6521
      @josephj6521 4 роки тому +16

      Loki Dog true. Health “insurance” can deny claims eh. What a scam but a great industry to work in.

    • @j-n-dfilms473
      @j-n-dfilms473 4 роки тому +6

      RADIO THE ARTIST That’s not hyperbolic at ALL!! 🙄

    • @DARisse-ji1yw
      @DARisse-ji1yw 4 роки тому +10

      You get what you pay for.

    • @painful-Jay
      @painful-Jay 4 роки тому +17

      D.A. Risse exactly yet some people expect others to pay having no idea what “free healthcare” means. Someone is paying, nothing is free. I have great healthcare that I pay for myself.

  • @brittanyramirez2642
    @brittanyramirez2642 4 роки тому +150

    Can you do a video about medicines from the Victorian era??

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому +11

      lead and mercury. maybe arsenic.
      preferably in ass high doses.
      if that doesn't help, open veines
      good luck.

    • @ultimatebishoujo29
      @ultimatebishoujo29 3 роки тому

      Interesting

    • @sarabyczynski4440
      @sarabyczynski4440 3 роки тому +3

      A lot of morphine... Heroin an cocaine meds in the Victorian age

    • @brittanyramirez2642
      @brittanyramirez2642 3 роки тому +2

      @@sarabyczynski4440 sounds like a party

    • @stanleycupchamps2009
      @stanleycupchamps2009 3 роки тому +3

      the wild west overlapped with the Victorian era tbh

  • @leebronx8622
    @leebronx8622 4 роки тому +35

    I love this channel. As someone that loves history i never realised what the average person living in said pastimes would've experienced on a daily basis and now i have a fair idea. So thank you Weird History and keep doing what you're doing 😊❤

    • @ahabduennschitz7670
      @ahabduennschitz7670 2 роки тому +2

      Seriously? You love History but yku need a fucking youtube Video to get an Idea of the Past?
      Thats a huge contradiction.
      I bet you just played Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed once and now you think youre totally into History 😂

    • @LagerLad1
      @LagerLad1 Рік тому

      ​@@ahabduennschitz7670it's been a year since you made this comment. Do you have any regrets?

  • @sussekind9717
    @sussekind9717 4 роки тому +141

    1:19 That is not a photo of a doctor and a patient. That is a photo of a mortician and a corpse during the Civil War being inbalmbed to be sent back home to family.

    • @Thaligamathor
      @Thaligamathor 4 роки тому +14

      I guess it's the best they could do lol

    • @nategrinny9626
      @nategrinny9626 4 роки тому +20

      I dont remember asking

    • @AlbertoFolres
      @AlbertoFolres 4 роки тому +1

      The cowboy on his horse looks mexican AF. I thought it was Emiliano Zapata

    • @sippinjuice4lyfe
      @sippinjuice4lyfe 4 роки тому +8

      He said it wasnt him, in the top left corner

    • @velocitygirl8551
      @velocitygirl8551 4 роки тому +1

      That may be the point. Same thing.

  • @corderorojas8614
    @corderorojas8614 4 роки тому +105

    Got a Cold? “Oh you need an ear nail” 101f Fever?? “You need a donkey kickin’”

    • @hboogie9127
      @hboogie9127 4 роки тому +1

      Cordero Rojas I cannot stop laughing at this lmfaooooooo

    • @joesmith289
      @joesmith289 4 роки тому

      B.U.N/ Watcher

    • @davidwilliams2279
      @davidwilliams2279 4 роки тому +2

      Might be better than a donkey dickin.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому

      no boner in sight and missus in bad mood? have this outstanding aphrodisiac made of spider legs and lizard testicles _bone 'er tonight!_

    • @ernesttucker4359
      @ernesttucker4359 4 роки тому +2

      Great movie

  • @shirleyjones9736
    @shirleyjones9736 4 роки тому +29

    I have the same opinion of a lot of the Doctors that are practicing today.

  • @Nic-vf7hi
    @Nic-vf7hi 4 роки тому +28

    Author Roald Dahl’s (Matilda, Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc) father lost his arm because a drunk doctor confused his father’s broken arm for a dislocated shoulder. Which resulted in his father losing the arm. That happened in Norway, but Roald Dahl recounts the story in his book Boy, as well as other medical situations Roald and his family went through in England. Makes you glad modern medicine is a thing 😂

    • @bobbygetsbanned6049
      @bobbygetsbanned6049 2 роки тому

      It really makes me wonder how modern medicine even got started when every doctor was trying to use blood letting to cure everything.

    • @andrewflowers6794
      @andrewflowers6794 2 роки тому

      In the Army, smart soldiers use their own sharpie to mark the limbs the Doc is NOT supposed to cut off so they are safe while we are unconscious on the table. Army Docs in America still have a habit of AMPUTATING THE WRONG LIMB! Imagine you waking up to find they cut off your only working arm! "Oops, sorry about that. My bad. I read the chart wrong". Still happens to this day, and will happen again tommorrow. But it's free health care...

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 Рік тому

      Dahl was also the host of “Way Out “ a tv show similar to the Twilight Zone. In the 60s.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 Рік тому

      @@andrewflowers6794 You mean they might amputate your leg that is in the middle of the two other legs? 😅

  • @Miss-Anne-Thrope
    @Miss-Anne-Thrope 4 роки тому +64

    People we certainly tougher back then, I couldn't have coped with these 'treatments'. I can understand why they drank so much whiskey back then, I think I'd want to be wasted too.

    • @liisavarhalla6348
      @liisavarhalla6348 4 роки тому +1

      5

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому +2

      you down feel the pain so much when drunk, you know. especially with lead bullets and fists flying around, you know.

    • @bradwilliams4921
      @bradwilliams4921 4 роки тому +1

      They didn’t know any better.

    • @OatmealTheCrazy
      @OatmealTheCrazy 4 роки тому +6

      People also drank so much whiskey (and previously rum and previously lager and previously ale) because there wasn't exactly clean, good-tasting water readily available
      Soft drinks wouldn't really be a thing for a while either, and when they did start, they were more remedy then casual drinking

    • @timcollum5015
      @timcollum5015 2 роки тому

      @@OatmealTheCrazy That was true for areas in Europe. But it was low-alcohol beer. U can't get hydrated from 80 proof alcohol! And it was prob higher back then. They drank to get fucked up, just like now.

  • @tamae.j7359
    @tamae.j7359 4 роки тому +26

    The use of fish hooks in this one gave me the willies

  • @zuzannahanna
    @zuzannahanna 4 роки тому +20

    Just finished playing Red Dead Redemption 2 to see this lol

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 4 роки тому +42

    The duel with pistols sounds like a great way to resolve today's health insurance disputes. Charging a fee for spectators should cover any funeral costs.

  • @lydiafielding8894
    @lydiafielding8894 4 роки тому +16

    It's weird to look back on history to see how little they knew. Makes me wonder in 200 years from now will the future generation look back on us and talk about how little we know....? food for thought.

    • @timcollum5015
      @timcollum5015 2 роки тому

      They will somewhat, but we actually understand the world around us a ton more than they did in the past.

  • @alwillk
    @alwillk 4 роки тому +50

    Let me guess. Your options were: Amputation, Bloodletting, Mercury, or laudanum.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 роки тому +4

      *Spin the wheel to chose your treatment...no whammies*

    • @0BRAINS0
      @0BRAINS0 4 роки тому +1

      I'll take laudanum.

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 роки тому +1

      Easy choice for me. I have polycythemia vera. I had a blood letting only last week. Could I get a blood letting _and_ the laudanum?

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому

      that'll be laudanum for me, then.
      COWABUNGA it is!

    • @kbrock9146
      @kbrock9146 4 роки тому

      Laudanum for the win.

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou 4 роки тому +30

    4: Drink until you can't feel your face.

  • @coinvestnet
    @coinvestnet 4 роки тому +154

    Three ways to die in the West

  • @annasahlstrom6109
    @annasahlstrom6109 4 роки тому +57

    Unless, you go to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

    • @nousernamewhatsoever
      @nousernamewhatsoever 4 роки тому +3

      Loved that show!!

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 роки тому

      The real Quinn would have killed her patients too.

    • @angelacase2331
      @angelacase2331 4 роки тому

      One of my favorite shows ever

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 роки тому

      Or Doc Adams

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 4 роки тому

      Before Dr, Quinn was on, there was a Canadian show called "Bordertown" with a lady doctor. They got the idea for Dr. Quinn from that show.
      ua-cam.com/video/8LxBvY7xZo4/v-deo.html

  • @gamerjamessss
    @gamerjamessss 4 роки тому +13

    Loving this wild west content you've been churning out lately. Keep it up!

  • @namesomega3694
    @namesomega3694 4 роки тому +17

    Reminds me of that time as Arthur Morgan when he got tb and went to the doctor and paid $16 which was alot back then just for him to tell him to take it easy

  • @jojohunt1412
    @jojohunt1412 4 роки тому +74

    I’d go to the Native American medicine man!!

    • @evirareid1500
      @evirareid1500 3 роки тому +5

      Yep. I'm black though so I'd probably have some good slave remedy medicine. My granny had medical recipes from her great granny who was a slave....

  • @ryanjourney9607
    @ryanjourney9607 4 роки тому +38

    Oh purging just sounds lovely. You can still accomplish that by just eating at Taco Bell.

  • @marsbit1711
    @marsbit1711 4 роки тому +21

    i’d just go to the afterlife if someone told me to drink sulfur and whiskey 💀

  • @pathologicaldoubt
    @pathologicaldoubt 4 роки тому +173

    Narrator: “in the Wild West, women were doctors...”
    Women: “Yaaaasss Queen!! Girl power!!!”
    Narrator: “...she was also a proponent of eugenics.”
    Women: “...”

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 4 роки тому +6

      A woman was speechless? No way.
      I'm kidding, hacky '80s joke. I'll see myself out.

    • @allisonterrey5641
      @allisonterrey5641 4 роки тому +5

      pathologicaldoubt ah yes, because the male doctors had such high ethical standards in comparison

    • @pathologicaldoubt
      @pathologicaldoubt 4 роки тому +10

      FYI this post was merely meant to illuminate the idiocy of identity politics.

    • @KevinRAAMAAAGE
      @KevinRAAMAAAGE 4 роки тому +10

      @@pathologicaldoubt it was fantastic honestly xD. As a woman I hate that shit more than anyone else. What's better is when they say, "when have any women waged war/done bad things" you give them a whole laundry list of shit and they fumble to give a response.

    • @Nighthawk268
      @Nighthawk268 4 роки тому +5

      Exactly. We have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves every now and then and demand respect vs earning trust that turns into bonds of respect. Our society has halted our progress as a species once identity politics became the focus. Divide and conquer.

  • @tinpony9424
    @tinpony9424 4 роки тому +5

    Cowboy: Doc, I got a sliver in my thumb.
    Doctor: Yeah, you need an ear nail.

  • @JohnGalt916
    @JohnGalt916 4 роки тому +31

    I mean can we put parentheses around calling them doctors? It's a drunk guy. Who told you got ghosts in your blood.

  • @muraygun
    @muraygun 4 роки тому +14

    "I'm a doctor too." - Dr. Steve Brule

  • @ajamesarellano
    @ajamesarellano 4 роки тому +23

    10:31 “Who would you go to if you caught a fever knowing your doctor would recommend drinking sulfur with a whiskey chaser?”
    Best Doctor prescription ever! hahahaha

  • @steveruby2120
    @steveruby2120 4 роки тому +152

    I wish someone would have written down Native American cures. I think we would be better off.

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 4 роки тому +16

      Ummm... Probably not.

    • @steveruby2120
      @steveruby2120 4 роки тому +31

      The combination of what they knew and what we've learned would make us better off.

    • @BigBangAttack-mt6pz
      @BigBangAttack-mt6pz 4 роки тому +10

      At the time, yes I think they were very good with natural medicine

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 4 роки тому +7

      @@steveruby2120 didn't most of the Natives die from diseases though? I'm sure their herbal knowledge was pretty good, but so was European medicine at the time. Really, allowing these psychopaths to become "Doctors" was irresponsible, and training was awful.

    • @steveruby2120
      @steveruby2120 4 роки тому +53

      The natives lived thousands of years until Europeans brought diseases to them of which they had no defense. A lot died from wars and starvation, due to killing off of the buffalo and driving them off of their lands by Europeans. No kind of medicine would cure that.

  • @MyDiesel101
    @MyDiesel101 4 роки тому +7

    Good Day! Thank You for your excellent video! I really enjoy your channel. May I suggest a topic for a new episode? Being a Steamboat operator on the Mississippi River in the middle of the 19th century. Operating, and being a passenger on a Steamboat in the 1850's, on the Mississippi River System was quite hazardous. Groundings, sinkings, fires, boiler explosions, lack of any safety equipment, and races between competing boats were quite common. The steamboats though enabled the rapid settlement & growth in the midwest & the southeast. The explosion & fire on the Steamboat Sultana, a "Troop Ship" at the end of the Civil War, caused the death of the more passengers than the sinking of the Titanic.

    • @conniecrawford5231
      @conniecrawford5231 4 роки тому +1

      Eugene Kosinski Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain was a dreamboat pilot on the Mississippi - there is a wealth of info on him. I love that steamboat experience!

  • @williamkeith8944
    @williamkeith8944 4 роки тому +2

    I was an old West doctor. I remember past lives. I was a stickler for washing my hands and using carbolic acid for cleaning my instruments I had been issued as a Union surgeon in the War between the States. I did use probes for finding bullets and removing them. I did stitch up bad cuts with a needle and horse hair. I often attended births but really never did surgery for babies caught in the pelvis, it was sad to see the mother and infant die. I did have chloroform and used it. I did cut off cancerous teats but that was a big deal with poor results most often. I treated pain of old wounds with veterans with Laudenum. The catarrh called for whiskey and tobacco smoke to clear the lungs. It was a good life.

  • @JenniferMenendez522
    @JenniferMenendez522 4 роки тому +30

    I would like to think that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would have been my physician. (😄)

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 роки тому +1

      The real medicine woman killed most of her patients.

    • @JenniferMenendez522
      @JenniferMenendez522 4 роки тому

      @@kevingonzalez3673 Very true! 🤭 I was thinking more along the lines of Jane Seymour's character. If not, I would prefer Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie. If I researched him, I would probably find a poor track record, too.
      Besides, both would be out of network. So, I would have to pay them with chickens or something. What kind of quality service should I expect when paying with poultry? 🤷🏻‍♀️ (😆)

    • @kevingonzalez3673
      @kevingonzalez3673 4 роки тому +1

      @@JenniferMenendez522 😹😹😹

    • @timcollum8695
      @timcollum8695 4 роки тому +1

      Jane Seymour can give me a physical anytime

    • @andreo.7633
      @andreo.7633 4 роки тому

      Of course u would 🙄

  • @hansg6336
    @hansg6336 4 роки тому +5

    Epitaph on old west tombstone- I told you I was sick!

  • @robertmason6928
    @robertmason6928 4 роки тому +61

    Going to a dentist would interest me

    • @ingunakirsteine4336
      @ingunakirsteine4336 4 роки тому +15

      That's the barber you're looking for, not a doctor.

    • @pudgeboyardee32
      @pudgeboyardee32 4 роки тому +5

      @@ingunakirsteine4336 yep, thats where the barbers gets the red and white double helix thing. White for shave cream, red for blood, and its a stylized caeduceus: the the winged twined serpent design used for centuries to denote doctors.

    • @alwillk
      @alwillk 4 роки тому +1

      Don't forget the bloodletting at the barber!

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 роки тому +2

      *oil of cloves was often given for tooth aches Clove oil contains a chemical called eugenol, which acts as an anesthetic and antibacterial agent. Clove oil is anti-inflammatory and antifungal*

  • @johnpossum556
    @johnpossum556 4 роки тому +16

    Creepy. Being as I've had like 20+ operations I am so glad I did not live in that era as I don't think I'd survive the _cure_.

    • @johnpossum556
      @johnpossum556 4 роки тому +1

      @profnasty Good for you. At least you didn't spend 20-30 years of your life paying off medical operation debts like my family did. Next time troll some one who has earned it, Mr Holier than thou.

  • @snippyJ
    @snippyJ 4 роки тому +6

    That must be where the old saying comes from about if it doesn't kill you it should cure you. LOL

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 роки тому

      *doesn't mention the fact that you may be cured but a bit....off afterwards*

  • @abefariss
    @abefariss 4 роки тому +6

    I saw “snake oil” in the thumbnail and I immediately thought of RDR 2

  • @notsosilentmajority1
    @notsosilentmajority1 4 роки тому +3

    Definitely interesting. The early settlers really were tough people. They are so under appreciated today.

  • @nicke1903
    @nicke1903 4 роки тому +15

    I'm here for the Red Dead Redemption2 comments....

  • @JoJoJoker
    @JoJoJoker 4 роки тому +15

    In one word: *PAINFUL*

  • @cherylcampbell9369
    @cherylcampbell9369 3 роки тому +1

    It was appreciated you mentioned Native contributions, even if they weren't recognized back then by most.

  • @asherwhite25
    @asherwhite25 4 роки тому +26

    Can y'all do an episode on James Barry?? First transgender doctor and FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY preform a cesarean birth in which both the mother and child lived. I mean the man traveled with a goat friend so he could have fresh milk wherever he went! Please do him for an episode!!!

    • @joshuaroe1402
      @joshuaroe1402 4 роки тому +3

      Asher White That is quite an accomplishment doing all of that while suffering from a mental illness.

    • @asherwhite25
      @asherwhite25 4 роки тому +1

      @@joshuaroe1402 and what mental illness what that? I've never heard of him being ill? He was known to be hot headed and got into fights easily, but I've never seen any documentation of any sort of mental illness

    • @mikshin9825
      @mikshin9825 4 роки тому +1

      She must have been quite good at pretending to be male. In those days she would be driven out of town or shot.

  • @JordanR1621
    @JordanR1621 4 роки тому +2

    "Doc Hullings was slightly more wounded. He was dead." 😂

  • @The_DevTato
    @The_DevTato 4 роки тому +56

    1800s flu: i have yee'd my last haw.
    2020 corona: 蝙蝠汤

    • @cirquelady_8723
      @cirquelady_8723 4 роки тому +2

      GirdleMcSturtle lmao😅😂😂😂😂

    • @crazybrickstudios7482
      @crazybrickstudios7482 4 роки тому +4

      For anyone who doesn’t know what that means, 蝙蝠汤 means “bat soup”

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому +2

      try to dig for gold when banned to home office, mate

  • @georgiaboy7674
    @georgiaboy7674 4 роки тому +6

    It's amazing how far we've came since then. I'd love to see technology in 100 years from now.

  • @acarguycandreamright634
    @acarguycandreamright634 4 роки тому +7

    I just love this channel.

  • @brantleyhester6641
    @brantleyhester6641 4 роки тому +6

    I had fever once and the only cure was more cow bell

  • @mathgasm8484
    @mathgasm8484 4 роки тому +4

    Doctors after drug laws " We need medical cocaine!"

  • @JFLETCH92
    @JFLETCH92 4 роки тому +1

    He shows the picture twice, but the man standing above a man behind a tent is actually embalming him. Trust me, I'm a mortician.

  • @drob8612
    @drob8612 4 роки тому +10

    Do one on Freemasons or secret societies!

    • @da1uheardabt
      @da1uheardabt 4 роки тому

      Fucking normie

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 4 роки тому

      Freemasonry isn't a secret society; we're listed in the phone book, for Christ's teeth!

  • @quickscopeoneeighty9158
    @quickscopeoneeighty9158 4 роки тому +8

    I'm still sceptical about going to the doctor. They wont "cure" you. They'll only "treat" you...

  • @stephensonjoe
    @stephensonjoe 4 роки тому +31

    Well, I have to be “that guy”. Placerville is pronounced “plasserville”, not plaiserville

    • @heiroot
      @heiroot 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 4 роки тому

      Definitely fine by me.

  • @airsquadron654
    @airsquadron654 4 роки тому +2

    Maybe you could do a video about the day in the life of a native American in the old west!

  • @richardyoung4616
    @richardyoung4616 4 роки тому +5

    I would want Doc Adams from Gunsmoke, he cured everyone!

  • @anthonygonzales2385
    @anthonygonzales2385 4 роки тому +1

    I live in Placerville! I never thought this little town would be mentioned! 😂🥳 I almost dropped my phone when it was mentioned lmao

  • @moomoomoo33ass
    @moomoomoo33ass 4 роки тому +9

    And 4 thousand years before , the ancient Egyptians were performing successful brain surgery........🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @gunslingingbird74
      @gunslingingbird74 4 роки тому +1

      As were the Mayans...

    • @moomoomoo33ass
      @moomoomoo33ass 4 роки тому +3

      Gunslinging Bird true stuff. Europeans think the started everything. Not so

  • @exrep0182
    @exrep0182 2 роки тому +1

    15 yrs ago, I went to a flea market here in town. I found a Dr's medical bag, stamped "Paid September 1895" & it still had some of the medications in it. I was so thrilled. I still have my Johnny West hores, action figures & covered wagon. So fascinating.

  • @BadThingsInHistory
    @BadThingsInHistory 4 роки тому +4

    Watching this made me want to learn more about the medical schools that taught these Doctors. They believed in some strange remedies.

    • @howardberkowitz5379
      @howardberkowitz5379 4 роки тому

      American medical education was put on a rigorous basis by the Flexner Report. A book, _The Great Influenza_ by John Barry, discusses the intertwining of medical education, the 1918 pandemic, and the beginnings of institutionalized medical research. Fine writing as well as informative.

    • @BadThingsInHistory
      @BadThingsInHistory 4 роки тому

      @@howardberkowitz5379 Thanks for the suggestion!

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped 2 роки тому +1

    "For the most part, medicine was a cutthroat business"
    Glad to see nothing has changed. >__>

  • @safiiiyyyaaa
    @safiiiyyyaaa 4 роки тому +3

    Great video! Love everything related to the old west! But please do a video about courtesans during roman times!

  • @glizzygladiator8055
    @glizzygladiator8055 4 роки тому +1

    Blisters are so easy to handle too, I can’t believe they just covered it with more pain.

  • @9sore
    @9sore 4 роки тому +11

    **Goes to the doctor in the wild west**
    The doctor:
    poor leg with a minor rash, it’d be a shame if i had to
    *TAKE IT*

  • @ukmedicfrcs
    @ukmedicfrcs 4 роки тому +3

    I am a surgeon and when I was in medical school ( just starting ) I was camping in a caravan and a woman in the camp that I was in started choking. I did the Heimlich manuever and when I realised this was not working my only choice to save her life was to perform a tracheotomy. My mum was a Doctor so I spent my entire life reading her medical books. I knew how to perform one but I was so scared I was shaking. Needless to say all went well and she survived and to this day she sends me flowers on my bday. Sometimes you have to do something in order to save a life ( the janitor who performed the c section ).

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 4 роки тому

      agreed, sometimes things have to be done that seem awkward afterwards. however, I suppose this event will be in your memories for your life time and might have been some sort of a sign by fate in order for you to see whether this is the right way to go for you or not? you had the guts and knowledge to do what nobody else at that spot couldn't, and I think this legitimates your operation. and that lady seems very thankful for your intervention.
      ps: is that you on your avatar? if so, let me tell you that you're a beautiful woman.
      however, take care and keep going your way.

    • @ukmedicfrcs
      @ukmedicfrcs 4 роки тому

      @@the_rover1 Thank you very much for your kind words! I never looked at it the way you said it. Yes that's me and I appreciate your compliment very much! ♥️

  • @ginasreview1030
    @ginasreview1030 4 роки тому +4

    Can you do a video about childbirth? I find it interesting of how it changed in the 1800's to how it is now. Or even before the 1800's

  • @KeenPotato
    @KeenPotato Рік тому

    Grew up 20 minutes from downtown Placerville. I love the history out of that town! Been to some really cool spots out that way in the back woods.

  • @Edmund._.Dantes
    @Edmund._.Dantes 4 роки тому +5

    Remind me never to complain about the VA again 😐

  • @arostwocents
    @arostwocents 4 роки тому +2

    Binge by Tyler Oakley was actually an advert that made it sound tempting! Gonna search for reviews now.
    Good video too, thanks.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 роки тому +21

    * looks at his soft serve chocolate swirl and frowns *

  • @luigidisanpietro3720
    @luigidisanpietro3720 4 роки тому +1

    Sulfur with a whiskey Chaser? SING ME UP!!!!

  • @japhygato
    @japhygato 4 роки тому +10

    You know doctors sort of 'wing it' now right? I'm in the field. It's sadly true.

    • @AutumnHaunts
      @AutumnHaunts 4 роки тому +1

      japhygato do you ever guess when diagnosing someone just to get rid of them? I’m genuinely curious

    • @placesaroundus
      @placesaroundus 4 роки тому +2

      Marie they don't even do that. They say nothing is wrong

    • @kellycholman
      @kellycholman 3 роки тому

      @@placesaroundus yes, any ailment they don't understand is therefore psychosomatic. They send you to a therapist.

    • @DonaldGerbino
      @DonaldGerbino 3 роки тому

      Yes true ,our bodies heal themselves and when they don't the doctors are stumped

  • @imahallucination4532
    @imahallucination4532 4 роки тому +2

    I- it's beautiful...there are no ads 🥺😍😭

  • @allim.5941
    @allim.5941 4 роки тому +10

    I go to a VA hospital for my healthcare, we’re not to far off.

  • @christopherburnham1612
    @christopherburnham1612 4 роки тому +1

    In Laidley Australia in 1900, It cost 10 shillings a visit,the weekly wage of a farmhand at that time

  • @aa-tx7th
    @aa-tx7th 4 роки тому +10

    Funny how all the more risky "procedures" were done on women...

  • @bradprather6749
    @bradprather6749 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for another great video. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

  • @GemmaJadeYT
    @GemmaJadeYT 4 роки тому +3

    Lol I LOVE this channel!! So happy I found it!! I binge a few episodes every morning first thing with my coffee and I always find myself laughing. “Yes the majority of patients who underwent bloodletting by cutting open their jugular had the prognosis you e probably guessed.... they died!!” (Close as I could remember but still hilarious). Your sarcasm is exactly my kind of humor!! 😂😂👏👏🏆🏆😁😁

  • @warh1story563
    @warh1story563 3 роки тому +2

    A doctor treated an outlaw in 1899, the dr diagnosed him with tuberculosis

  • @pyramid_iremide
    @pyramid_iremide 4 роки тому +3

    were the first couple mins of this video reference in your old west video, or is that just me

  • @davidmedlin8562
    @davidmedlin8562 4 роки тому +2

    Love the Dr. Drumpf reference in the beginning on the wagon. Hope more people get it.

    • @ravensbrood3544
      @ravensbrood3544 4 роки тому +1

      President Drumpf to you...😃

    • @sukamugen
      @sukamugen 4 роки тому +1

      Yet he’s on his way to win 2020 and no evidence was found
      “ but but but she said and he said”
      Nope!
      Can’t prosecute someone based on only hearsay

    • @ravensbrood3544
      @ravensbrood3544 4 роки тому

      @@sukamugen l'm happy to see a comment from someone who understands the legal basis for our laws.👍

    • @ravensbrood3544
      @ravensbrood3544 4 роки тому

      @Doctor Remulak .....and forever Acquitted President Trump to you Miss Nancy..😑

    • @ravensbrood3544
      @ravensbrood3544 4 роки тому

      @Doctor Remulak Nothing you can do about it either Snowflake❄❄,get over it, bend over for Hillary and Big Mike Obama..

  • @raymond8875
    @raymond8875 4 роки тому +17

    Remember, not all doctors were A students.

    • @kmarch6630
      @kmarch6630 4 роки тому +4

      I think the doctors I go to got their degrees at thrift stores.

    • @Davepool-hs7vr
      @Davepool-hs7vr 4 роки тому +2

      You still call the person who finished last in med school Doctor

    • @quickscopeoneeighty9158
      @quickscopeoneeighty9158 4 роки тому

      *are not were

  • @Rj-qx8id
    @Rj-qx8id 4 роки тому +2

    Liking this before I go to bed. Good night!

  • @lauraflotron9707
    @lauraflotron9707 4 роки тому +5

    Great video! I love medical history, and especially its acceptance/rejection by the general public. It's also fascinating to see how some of medicine's greatest advances were accidental. Like noticing that the cleaner the hands and instuments were, the fewer patients died of secondary infections. Even Dr. Fleming sort of Forrest Gumped into penicillin, and it was the biggest game changer in history.

    • @howardberkowitz5379
      @howardberkowitz5379 4 роки тому

      Fleming didn't understand the potential therapeutic uses of penicillin, which had to wait for the WWII effort with Florey, Chain, and others.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 6 місяців тому

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! What a fascinating and shocking history, a real "A-ha" moment!

  • @mimyun8470
    @mimyun8470 4 роки тому +7

    Please make a video about ancient or medieval indian subcontinent history.

  • @MzzzNettie
    @MzzzNettie 4 роки тому

    Ahhh, good old Hangtown. I love learning little tidbits about the area.

  • @brianfuller7691
    @brianfuller7691 4 роки тому +3

    First, hope they were a doctor. Many "doctors "actually weren't and many real doctors were actually barely qualified
    Second, the doctor might well be a blacksmith or another trade

  • @aaronlopez3585
    @aaronlopez3585 4 роки тому

    At 00.58 seconds "for the most part medicine was a
    cut throat business" that is what's called an unintended pun, good job.
    PS; I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks