A Medical Look Into What Killed Every President | Doctor Mike | A History Teacher Reacts

Mr. Terry checks out Doctor's Mike channel for the first time! In this video, he goes over the causes of death for every dead American President. As always, Mr. Terry adds his commentary and context!
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[@MrTerry]

What do you think of Doctor Mike's channel? Do you think it's something I should cover more?

[@duuude2192]

Yes please do, this was amazing

[@jet_novice9901]

Very funny channel

[@PredawnDwarf]

If possible do a collab with Mike about medical history!

[@dwightk.schrute8696]

Absolutelu, Dr Mike is awesome. Pee woop.

[@BadUrchin3628]

This has soooo much bad timing... RIP Queen Elizabeth

[@DrunkenExpert]

I'm pretty sure that Bell's metal detector actually made things worse. Bell was looking for the bullet in the wrong place because the metal detector was ringing every few inches. Turns out, it was actually detecting the metal springs in Garfield's mattress and not the bullet causing doctors to search for it in the wrong area of the body.

[@MrTerry]

Yikes!

[@catalyst1641]

Oh god.

[@artsysabs]

Bruh

[@justinmcgough3958]

ah, new horror dream unlocked

[@pneumonianakey]

The doctor also didnt believe in germ theory so he probably just dug deep in there wriggling his germ infested hands in Garfield's body

[@cockatoo010]

Dr Mike (Mikhail Varchovsky) was born in the city of Saransk, Russian Soviet Socialist federation . He moved to the US with his family when he was a boy just as the USSR was falling. He's the son of an Ukranian Jew who was also a practicing doctor in the USSR but his diplomma was not accepted in the US, so he had to attend medical school for the second time while working to provide for his family. Mike is an interesting character himself. He's a D.O. certified in NY and NJ (i think) and practices as a family physician

[@insertnamehere6105]

Imagine

[@Spiky-gs3eg]

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[@authorofone]

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic*

[@FrostbiteKelvin]

Hi Mr. Terry! I'm a neurosurgeon. Just a clarification: if someone is shot a bullet to the head apply pressure to stop any bleeding and run with him/her to the hospital. Back in the days bullets were made of lead so you had to remove them to avoid lead poisoning, modern bullets no longer use lead so its rather safe to leave them inside. So, what he was saying, is that his medic tried to get to the bullet with his bare hands increasing risk of infections and applying direct pressure to the brain, both potentially deadly. Love your content. Greetings from Chile.

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

Exactly: Lead, so if they had patched up Garfield without removing the bullet he could have been lead-poisoned (unless the body encased it in tissue that did not expose blood vessels to it).

[@Valmarn]

Nice hearing from a neurosurgeon, but the overwhelming majority of modern bullets are still made from Lead or Lead-Antimony (which is even worse than solid lead), but are sometimes (not always) coated in copper or brass... but after firing, the coating is usually at least partially compromised, so lead poisoning is still an issue... albeit less in many cases.

[@FrostbiteKelvin]

@@Valmarn Oh! I didn't know that! Anyways, we don't usually go digging for bullets unless they are easily accesible or they are near our surgery path. And I haven't seen a lead poisoning due bullets in my life. I guess the coating is enough to reduce the exposure

[@DaemonicRenamon]

@@FrostbiteKelvin Yeah copper or steel jacketing on ammunition is becoming more popular so luckily lead poisoning is less of an issue. Of course you still need to worry about the giant hole the bullet will cause lmao

[@GodWentAFK]

From what I've heard, in many cases, even with lead bullets, lead poisoning is substantially less of a risk than further damage by trying to remove it.

[@jtl-en4yx]

I love how Mr. Terry reacts to other KZbinrs' history videos on KZbin. It's like he creates a historiography of KZbin history content.

[@MrTerry]

Thank you!

[@jtl-en4yx]

@@MrTerry Thank you for the reply, love your channel Mr. Terry!

[@joematthews4952]

Bush as you say was the oldest at 94. Ronald Reagan was the second oldest. He was 93 when he died, Ford was also 93, but a few months younger than Reagan, both Adams and Hoover were 90. Jimmy Carter will however become the oldest when he dies as he is currently 97.

[@696190]

I just realised Hoover wasn't mentioned in Doctor Mike's video. Huh

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@696190 Herbert Hoover IS in Doctor Mike's video. What do you mean by this?

[@696190]

@@yashjoseph3544 must've missed him

[@SamAronow]

Carter was also fairly young by presidential standards when he took office, meaning he has by _far_ the longest post-presidency at 41 years. The runner up, Hoover, only lived for 31 years after leaving.

[@copocopocopocopo]

Actually, Ford was slightly older, 165 days to Reagan's 119. They WERE both 93 though. So it's actually Bush, Ford, Reagan, Adams, Hoover, in that order.

[@kaya-1094]

At around 16:00 you might be refering to Florence Nightingale, a nurse and one of the frontrunners of statistics and data visualisation. She found that during the 1853-1856 Crimean war 10 times more soldiers died from disease related to poor hygiene than from battle wounds, and helped bring attention to hygiene to both medical staff, and society at large, although I do not know how much of that had reached the US by the time of Garfield's death.

[@MrTerry]

Thank you for sharing!

[@brandonferretti9907]

What about mary seacole?

[@WardenChapman]

He could also be referring to Ignaz Semmelweis, who was a Hungarian doctor who told nurses to wash their hands before delivering babies around 1847. Which, drastically lowered the rates of fever and death in childbirth.

[@eypandabear7483]

@@WardenChapman Yep. Unfortunately, Semmelweis found this correlation before Pasteur’s work on germ theory was published/accepted. And his fellow doctors refused to believe that *their hands* were what caused so many babies to die. So he ended up ridiculed and put in an insane asylum..

[@Nolroa]

@@MrTerry The doctor you are referring to is Dr. Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Lister's contribution to medicine was two-fold. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working as a surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary by successfully introducing phenol (then known as carbolic acid) to sterilise surgical instruments, the patient's skin, sutures and the surgeon's hands. However, his most important contribution was recognising the key principle that underlay the change in surgical practice, namely converting a chance observation into a meaningful application of the scientific principles proposed by Louis Pasteur. Lister's work led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients, distinguishing him as the "father of modern surgery". Although I'm not sure if it was in his honor that the famous mouthwash was named "Listerine".

[@i_fuze_hostages6]

Emt here for gunshots the protocol is to stop the bleeding if possible by applying pressure to the wounded area but DO NOT REMOVE THE BULLET as it is likely the only thing stopping more bleeding

[@abraxaszee8953]

Fun fact: There was already a funeral honors team prepared when JFK was assassinated. Hoover was expected to die very soon so Marines were already trained up for it.

[@Nolroa]

In the case of JFK not being able to ducking or bend over and due to the orthopedic device he was wearing on his back, it is due to what was said by the Warren commission report that indicated three shots with Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle,(an Italian-made 6.5 mm caliber rifle) The first shot missed Kennedy, the second shot wounded Kennedy entered through the neck, the projectile came out and wounded Governor Jhon Connally, and the third shot was the fatal shot to the head. Kennedy would have been able to duck inside the vehicle or Jackie Kennedy's lap and protect himself after the first shot, but he couldn't because of the brace on his back. I bet it didn't bode well for the president to be in a convertible branded with the last name of another assassinated president (Lincoln).

[@Rogeryoo]

If there's even a car called Kennedy, maybe it's best if the US president doesn't ride on that one. Just to be safe.

[@smittydog16]

The first shot actually missed second hit his neck/throat then the final was his head

[@supercrazylegs1]

The first shot missed and the second shot hit Kennedy, went through him, and then hit Connally. After the second bullet hit, you can see the difference between how Connally turned and ducked onto his wife’s lap and how Kennedy rigidly leaned towards Jackie due to the constriction of the back brace. If Kennedy was able to duck down the same way Connally did, he may not have been shot in the head, abd he may have survived that first gunshot.

[@Annie_Annie__]

@@Rogeryoo Similarly (kinda), my dad was on the USS John F Kennedy when he was in the Navy and he swears that ship is cursed.

[@DevonMopiedmont1143]

@@Annie_Annie__ that ship is still in Philadelphia and has been for years. 🤣

[@windhelmguard5295]

the kennedy thing could have gone two ways, had he been able to duck. firstly it is possible that kennedy not buckling over after the first shot, was the reason a second shot was fired in the first place, so had he just been able to collapse after the first shot, the attacker might have just stopped firing. the other option is of course that kennedy could have ducked down and avoid getting shot again. either way surviving one gunshot is one hell of a lot easier than surviving two.

[@tacobowler]

Hi! I’m one of those subscribers who also is subbed to Dr Mike. Both are very informative. He’s a general practitioner in NYC

[@MrTerry]

Thanks for being here!

[@theironscorpion2128]

You might want to check Oswald's military record, because he was a such a rotten shot he couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with a Howitzer.

[@theironscorpion2128]

The doctor you were asking about was Ignaz Semmelweis. And Louis Pasteur was one of the earliest to adopt regular hand washing.

[@rekadd]

ive been a fan of mikes for about as long as ive watched this channel so is appreciate you watching more of his stuff

[@StrongandStable17]

Unfortunately the bed Garfield was laying on had metal springs. So despite Bells attempts it made no difference.

[@Nolroa]

It should also be noted that Graham Bell was brought in after a time when the doctors were already performing surgery on him. In modern terms, President Garfield's death was a case of malpractice.

[@nextlevelcooking9039]

Interesting fact about cholera. In the US we recently saw the first widespread infection of cholera since the civil war in Los Angles. This is due to the large homeless encampments in the city and the lack of proper waste facilities in the encampments. Typhoid is also spreading in the city among the homeless population.

[@matthewdovidas4213]

To follow up on your JFK question, he was first shot in the shoulder before the second shot hit his head. If he was able to duck after the first shot, or at least move more willingly as opposed to his limited mobility with that spine support brace it is possible, while not guaranteed, that the second fatal shot could possibly been avoided.

[@user-uo4ro8jo4i]

But there was a third shot that came from the front and passed through him.

[@anasazidarkmoon]

Doctor Mike has a lot of fun videos on his channel! Here's some more facts that he doesn't go into in the video. 1. Pierce's lifetime of drinking stems from the fact that, right after he was elected, he and his family were in a train accident where everyone survived, except for his son. 2. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma as a child. You were correct that his mother and first wife died on the same day. He was also shot in an assassination attempt while running under the Bull Moose party, and still gave his speech afterward. He never let anyone attempt to remove the bullet, which was lodged in his chest wall after passing through his folded-up speech. 3. Kennedy had those back problems his entire life, and while it kept him from joining the Army during World War 2, he managed to get into the Navy, where he saw action. The back brace in question during his assassination wouldn't have kept him from getting hit with the first bullet, but had he not been wearing it, they may have been able to pull him downward to avoid the second. A lot of the other problems listed on the screen most likely stemmed from the fact that his own immune system was attacking his adrenal glands.

[@Nolroa]

The third point is interesting... Then the whole list of diseases that JFK had on his belt: If Kennedy had survived the attack in Dallas, how long could he have stayed alive? Would the first shot he received have been as fatal as the second shot he received in the head? Would he have been able to finish his Presidential term? Because it seems that although JFK was the youngest president to be elected (43 years old when he was sworn in), he was not one of the healthiest presidents.

[@MrTerry]

Thank you for sharing that!

[@christianlorre]

You know good old Joe Kennedy caused John to get into the Navy because there was no way he should've been allowed in.

[@nightfox802]

Tyler's grandson still alive and kicking at 93... that's quite a feat to consider that he is younger than Queen Elizabeth II

[@nancyomalley6286]

Can you imagine how the debating opponents might have felt when the other person just keels over mid-argument?! Were they traumatized? Or did they brag about it like a sociopath? "Yep, I killed him with my 'deadly' oratory skills!"

[@Nolroa]

There have been cases in which political debates have reached the extremes of using firearms and shooting the opponent in congress.

[@ChrisLopez-it7hg]

The thought of Alexander with a magnet trying to find the bullet in Garfield would make an amazing robot chicken skit

[@Nolroa]

As part of the joke, instead of looking for the bullet in President Garfield's body, Bell was doing the same thing in Garfield the cat on a Monday.

[@asapmimic1289]

Changing independence to the treaty of Paris would show that we weren’t independent till Britain “allowed” us to be. Which isn’t the case. Independence Day would make sense to be celebrated when we declared but I think when we drafted it just sounds good. A formal declaration.

[@tntkff9901]

"Death HAD to take Roosevelt sleeping, forhad he been awake, there would've been a fight." .....And here I was thinking he couldn't be any more of a badass after getting shot and still giving a speech.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

I think it was Tyler too. And his 2nd to last grandchild to die died a few years ago. So there's still one left. There is a modern example of this: The actor Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) was born when his dad was in his 70s. Charles Dance himself also became a dad in late 60s, so his father who was born in 1874, had a son born in 1946, and a granddaughter born in 2012. Think about it this way, if Charles' daughter lives until 2101 when the 22nd century starts, she will probably at the ripe age of 89 be the only person on the planet with a grandparent born in the 19th century. That's pretty far out. :)

[@civilwarwildwest]

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both had that Numenorian gift from Lord of the Rings where they would have lived to be 200 years old, but they voluntarily gave up heir lives on the 4th of July because AMERICA. lololol

[@FlowIrec]

I love this comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wrightroenigk]

Considering that the queen of England just died this had to be a sign

[@artsysabs]

These sort of videos are super entertaining. Thanks Terry!

[@coltafanan]

I think the reason polio wasn’t mentioned was because, if I’m not mistaken, it became widely debunked that he was suffering from that specific disease

[@Clem68W]

I have been reading that during the civil war period, doctors were widely aware of germ theory, but did not necessarily know what to do about it. And given that the general practice for common battlefield injuries was to cut or not to cut limbs off, they might have seen this as superfluous. European surgeons were probably at the forefront of washing up before surgery, but that would have been late 19th century. It wasn't actually battlefield surgery that progressed sanitary practice and I think it'd be for the aforementioned reason. There was an austrian cat who paid attention to mortality rates among women giving birth and eventually put it together that doctors killed more patients than midwives because they were elbow deep in cadavers every morning before assisting with childbirth. Joseph Lister was a scottish doctor who strongly urged others to cleanse their hands before procedures--Listerine was named in honor of him but he didn't have any part in its development. By the time Garfield was wasted his doctors would potentially known what other doctors recommended about scrubbing in, but they would have no compulsion to do so themselves. Oddly enough hand washing was not mandated as a general hygienic practice outside of operating rooms until the 80s. 1980s.

[@MrTerry]

Thanks for sharing!

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@TARINunit9]

When Guiteau said "the doctors killed Garfield, I simply shot him" that wasn't a serious legal defense, he was just mocking them and rubbing salt in the literal wound. Dude was _spiteful_

[@kaine6076]

It's always interesting seeing videos with John Adams and John Quincy Adams because i am a direct descendant from them on my mothers side.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Fun fact about President John Tyler. He married late and had children late as did his son's. Consequently, he still has a living grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tylor. Just to put that in perspective, President Tyler was born in 1790. Theodore Roosevelt lost his mother and wife on the same day. He also survived getting shot on the campaign trail in 1916. Contrary to popular belief, he was injured but was able to give a speech because the bullet was slowed down by his very long folded up speech.

[@meganhutcheson5867]

So, Mr. Terry about FDR having polio, it has now been widely debated that he had something called Guillain-Barré syndrome.

[@meganhutcheson5867]

Mr. Terry, Have you ever thought about doing a reaction to the national treasure movies? I’m curious as to how historically accurate they are.

[@Revy_1995]

On your note at 16:00 in about the doctor and his hygiene, there was a doctor in the 1300s that was very pro cleaning but he was basically laughed out of the medical field and the results set back hygiene in the medical field about 500 years or so

[@musical_lolu4811]

Semmelweis? Semmelweis was in the 1800s though.

[@Revy_1995]

@@musical_lolu4811I believe he was french, it was the 1300s, 1400s I cannot remember the name, but he basically said like you should clean your tools before surgery, and his peers were like nah, that's dumb

[@CamPaFai]

The timing on this video

[@Kenzalina_]

I subscribe to you both as well. I would love to see you do a video on the transfer of power when a Monarch dies. It’s a fascinating process and way more goes into it than I think people know. Love your content!

[@TriSticle]

Bush is the oldest to die so far, whenever Carter goes though, he'll beat Bush out for that title. Bush was 94 and Carter is currently as of September 2022, 97. If he makes it to the beginning of October he'll be 98.

[@cheneethompson5756]

Carter's 98 now

[@gwpcs]

The doctor who's name you couldn't remember was Ignaz Semmelweis. Great video as usual.

[@matthewdovidas4213]

Because you asked, former EMT here, if someone gets shot you indeed to try and stop the bleeding. But the point he was making is don't probe for the bullet. A doctor could make that decision later. If a bullet is lodged in a spot, it could be stopping further bleeding and potentially save their life with it staying there. And not just that, a lot of people live with bullets permanently in their body because it would cause more harm to remove it. Furthermore, this applies to anything in the skin, like a knife, a fish hook, a large nail, leave it there until a doctor looks at it. Also, yes, you were correct. The guy who discovered sickness as it related to germs and washing hands and that would be helpful was laughed out of the clinic (and eventually moved to a whole other country) because he was a younger physician and he was heavily criticized by his elders.

[@slushiesnsleep]

The fact that Eisenhower started NASA, but died a few months before the Apollo 11 mission, which had the first man walking on the moon is really sad to me.

[@nancyomalley6286]

There's also an assassination 'attempt' in 1981, where the would-be assassin just wanted to impress actress Jodie Foster-Thankfully Reagan survived that attempt!

[@wheezus2000]

plot twist he starts listing living presidents and future dates

[@antidotebrain69]

I'm a Doctor Mike Subscriber and I just got you in my recamended. Not my usual content but I subscribed.

[@clintonmccarver7600]

I subscribe to y’all both and the thing y’all have in common is y’all both put out great content.

[@SubFT]

The amazing thing about the attempt on Andrew Jackson's life you referred to wasn't just that the assassin's gun misfired (it was a black powder pistol, btw), but the second gun the assassin pulled out to use also misfired. Then Jackson beat him down. Any time now Carter could pass and he'd become the longest living US President. He's kind of like John Quincy Adams in that both did their best work after leaving the presidency. In Adam's case it was as a congressman and as an attorney for the Amistad Africans. In Carter's case it's been his work as a ambassador.

[@cjrollo]

Dysentery, the bane of Oregon Trail enthusiasts.

[@wowowoowowo1]

both of my favorite youtubers in one video

[@CaptainB1994]

The 6 presidents that are still alive (as of this comment's posting) Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and of course the incumbent Joe Biden. As for Doctor Mike he is really entertaining and great at explaining things that some of us would have absolutely no idea about.

[@paddyh8023]

Carter is going to out live all of them at this rate

[@mlee6050]

For Bush when people say George Bush is it sr or jr that is more well known (higher popularity)

[@CaptainB1994]

@@mlee6050 well I said Jr, but for others there's a simple way to figure out which is which, H.W Bush is Bush Sr and W Bush is Bush Jr.

[@cheneethompson5756]

I learn a lot from dr mike

[@diegolopezzz18]

Just a quick tip! The person who revolutionized medical sanitation wasn’t a doctor and wasn’t a guy. It was a nurse and statistician named Florence Nightengale who first began utilizing pre-operative hygiene as a way to improve treatment outcomes.

[@ianstotts8853]

The quote about teddy😂 most badass man ever to exist Gets shot in a speech and refuses a hospital until he finishes the speech!

[@samhouston1979]

it’s ironic that the FDR memorial has him in a wheelchair since he did his darndest to hide that fact in official pictures & appearances

[@jeffreyamlung3338]

President Tyler has a grandson that will be 94 years this year. You are correct!

[@MrTerry]

That’s nuts

[@AmocRL]

would absolutely love to see more reactions to dr mike.

[@WanderingWriter]

geez JFK had a myriad of things going on. even if he didn't have the back brace that prevented him from ducking, i wonder if he could duck after the first bullet would that have made a difference?

[@Nolroa]

Yes it would have made a difference. The second shot wounded Kennedy in the neck and Governor John Connelly, the footage shows the Governor crouching on his wife's lap to protect himself while Kennedy was unable to do so because of the brace and was fatally shot in the head.

[@mausmaster2354]

You can stop the bleeding fine by covering and pressuring ON TOP of the wound, just don't go shoving your fingers directly in it.

[@tacobowler]

Carter is currently 98. He’s the oldest

[@allanlank]

The doctor, who suggested that doctors wash their hands between patients, was Dr. Joseph Lister. Listerine, the mouthwash, is named after him.

[@Loowee__]

Somehow in my family tree on my Grandadd’s side I am a very distant relative of Ulysses Grant. A great great great relative I believe. Can’t be bothered to explain in a KZbin comment but that’s a pretty cool part of my family history. My granddad has the same nose and eye shape despite even him being around 3 generations down the tree from him.

[@Merennulli]

Wow... the timing on this.

[@jackmessick2869]

1884 German researcher Robert Koch published the first well researched guide to germ theory, so literally months after Garfield died.

[@LadyGhoost]

I Love when the youtuber your follow interact with eachother in some ways!

[@brandonferretti9907]

FDR's last words were supposedly "I have a terrible headache."

[@gingersnap22]

The John Tyler situation happened in my family also. I'm 53 and my great-grandfather fought in the confederate army

[@LexusLFA554]

There is a video made beforehand by Mr. Beat. Along with the death it also features the last words, if known. (My favorite is just "Help")

[@Synnnister_]

Interesting thing is I found your channel after watching 3 hours of his videos 😂

[@matthiascerebri3315]

Could you also make such a Video about the British rulers since the Queens death would make such a project very intriguing

[@murderoustendencies]

Regarding the question about hand washing, the notion of "germs" (ie any invisible particle that could make someone sick, which would be roughly the understanding at the time) the guy who got laughed out of the room was way earlier though I can't for the life of me remember who it was. In fact such things had been suggested several times throughout history and usually sneered at. Accepting that germs were a thing and trying to eliminate them started to become popular towards the end of the victorian era, so roughly ten/fifteen years after Garfield's death. Ironically though the obsession with killing germs killed a lot of people too cause they were poisoning themselves with chemicals to achieve it. In short not much has changed!

[@Spartag1706]

Off topic but Queen Elizabeth has passed away, RIP

[@kindred6453]

I mean yes stop the bleeding just don't probe the wound with a dirty finger. Apply sterile gauze or cloth to the wound and apply pressure until they can be treated by a professional.

[@Duckemp]

The best doctor channel ever

[@orionelenbaas7947]

Mr. Terry can we expect a video of some sort adressing/reacting/talking about the queens passing?

[@nunyabidness674]

Re: Kennedy "Dodging" The first round hit him in the throat, he starts to slump forward and to the left before the second round hit his head. Had the brace not been there, it is likely he would have wound up on the floor of the car (I'm 6 foot 5 inches and can hide in the back floor of a 61 continental, the stretch car has even more space) and would have spoiled the shot.

[@cudwieser3952]

ignaz semmelweiss was the father of washing before surgery. got run out of practice for it though

[@MiriOhki]

20:50 - and then you have the attempted assassin of Reagan, who was just trying to impress an actress.

[@slushiesnsleep]

Try to kill an actor to impress an actress.

[@redwolf980]

On Lincoln, Lincoln's Doctor Made The Mistake Of The Finger, But Didn't Have The Tool Which Removes It. So Lincoln Would Die Because The Bullet Couldn't Be Removed This Way, Many Believe Sticking The Finger In Didn't Work That Well.

[@MiracleFound]

Don't stick your finger into anyone's brain. Hold direct external pressure over the area. Actually, it was nurses (midwives) who first recognized the need to wash hands. A doctor in England finally decided that they were right and wrote it up. He did get ridiculed by other doctors about it. A midwife recognized that subsequent deliveries after the first of the shift had an increasingly higher rate of developing peurperal fever. The doctors would go from delivery to delivery without changing clothes or washing their hands. So if you were their 3rd or 4th of the day, you were almost guaranteed to get an infection. Medical practice is constantly evolving as we learn more. A nun noticed that the babies close to the windows in the nursery were less yellow (jaundiced) than the babies near the door leading to treatment of newborn jaundice with UV lights.

[@jescis0]

@MrTerry Jimmie Rodgers(born: September 8, 1897) died from pulmonary Tuberculosis on May 26, 1933! He even wrote a song about it called "T.B. Blues" which was put out on Victor Records 23535(April 5, 1931) recorded on January 31st, 1931, they put a November 25th, 1929 song "Mississippi River Blues"! It's really interesting how we've had better medical procedures now! 😢😢

[@shell6829]

Dr. Mike is AWESOME!

[@brianharrington1468]

John Tyler still has one living grandson. Harrison Tyler is still alive at the age of 93.

[@valenciageode25]

Dr Mike’s video helped me pick a topic for a civics project, making an essay and art piece related to a president. I chose Grover Cleveland because of the interesting point of his secret mouth surgery. It was also great because he’s lesser known. No two students could have the same president, most had to go back, but I got my first choice!

[@itsyahomiescott3742]

The legend goes that John Adam’s last words were “Jefferson will live on”. He didn’t know Jefferson had already died less than 20 hours earlier.

[@willowandluka5302]

Another banger from Teach, no cap

[@billy9497able]

Dr Mike is great. Also I've been subbed for a while a long time now. Really since one of your first videos where you explained that a reactor named Devon DaVinci inspired you to start a KZbin channel. Ps. Collab with vlogging through history?

[@MrTerry]

Devon and VTH are great!

[@billy9497able]

@@MrTerry I agree. I love all your guy's stuff. I'm a history major at Lincoln Memorial University and try to keep up with yalls videos when I have the time.

[@yvtvdehvyvyde]

I was an army medic If someone gets shot in the chest (not the heart) or the limbs, there are pretty simple solutions, but a shot to the head requires immediate surgery if they aren't dead on the spot. There really isn't a field treatment for that even now. Lincoln's doctors deserve a break

[@iwersonsch5131]

i feel like 2 of these are gonna be "a high-velocity collision with a small piece of metal"

[@cs82271]

Tyler had two living grandsons in the last decade. Don't know if they're still alive but I know they lived recently enough

[@MrTerry]

That’s so wild to think about

[@cheneethompson5756]

Only one of Tyler's two grandsons is still alive

[@timothytayntor3966]

13:30 "PROBING" as in he's rooting around Lincolns' brain with his bare finger... yeah, like aliens "probing your bum" as many of those tales go. 26:55 adrenaline of hearing the shot go off- you may be the one they targeted but you don't know immediately so just as well they (S.S.) might've made him duck.

[@codyclaeys2008]

You should definitely check more of him he’s funny

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

20:45 well well well

[@ocifer]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that I’ve read and was taught that the first shot fired by Lee Harvey Oswald missed, therefore the back brace preventing the President from ducking was the reason that the subsequent shots/shots were able to still hit Kennedy.

[@mumwater7534]

It was Florence nightingale (1860) and Mary seacole, were advocates of sanitation and hygiene practices. Germ theory was known in 1546, how ever doctors only started washing hands in 1890s

[@tim4101]

Germ theory of disease was absolutely not known in 1546. We knew Microbes existed, but the idea that they caused disease wasn't accepted until the late 1800's, mainly due to the work of Louise Pasteur and Robert Koch. (Source: Am a Microbiology & Immunology Major)

[@dwightk.schrute8696]

That anecdote better lines up with the history of Joseph Lister (of Listerine mouthwash fame).

[@eypandabear7483]

@@dwightk.schrute8696 Ignaz Semmelweis is almost certainly the guy he remembered.

[@dwightk.schrute8696]

@@eypandabear7483 Ha you're right! I knew the guy was Hungarian and Joseph Lister doesn't sound very Hungarian so something was off.

[@eypandabear7483]

@@dwightk.schrute8696 Lister was certainly the one who introduced the concept to surgery, and with great success. AFAIK this was in the 1860s, when Louis Pasteur’s work on germ theory had already been published. I think Semmelweis’ great misfortune was that he was a few years early. Perhaps the environment in Austria vs Britain and his being Jewish also played a role in how he was received.

[@karenparker5054]

On Gunsmoke the doctor always washed his hands in whiskey😂

[@tomhalla426]

Gerald Ford survived the only two assassination attempts by women, Squeaky Fromme ans Sara Jane Moore. Fromme did not know how to use the pistol she stole, and did not load the chamber. Moore had had her usual gun confiscated by the Secret Service, as she was on a watch list. Her new pistol had bad sights, and she missed, then was tackled by a bystander as she tried another shot.

[@jdoggg1119]

For a modern day president assassination, it would take a major breakdown of the secret service. The only way I could think that something could happen is if somehow a nuclear weapon was detonated while the president was too far from AF1 or The Beast

[@beastofthemount414]

16:07 i believe the person that wrote about the need for cleanliness in medicine, was a scottish doctor called Robert Liston.

[@SonOfMuta]

9:01 Harrison Ruffin Tyler Sr. (born November 9, 1928) is last living grandchild of former U.S. president John Tyler

[@mariatolis4529]

The closet emptied on President was Regan but the shooter missed bullet bounced back hit him. When been pushed into the limo.