Bad Medicine - History's Most Insane Medical Treatments

[@brainblaze6526]

The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare skl.sh/businessblaze07231

[@samwamm85]

3 actual ways urine 'can' be used as medical treatments (depending on the urine's composition) - as a disinfectant on flesh wounds because it's so toxic it kills the infection bacteria. - as an ear injection to clear earwax because it's so toxic it dissolves the molecular chains that thicken the wax. - added to large quantities of water and drank to boost immunity because it's so toxic it strengthens you via vaccination.

[@samwamm85]

the whale therapy worked simply because heat was applied consistently around the arthritic joint for a long time. you can get exactly the same effect by using an electric blanket. try it yourself.

[@Rekuzan]

Come to Australia they said, it'll be FUN they said.... Everything is upside-down, on fire & actively trying to kill you! BeeTdubs ~ They're called elephant spiders, and yes, they ARE that massive!

[@tommyrotton9468]

Camel urine is highly recommended in Islam

[@runed0s86]

Can you write a medical text please? I want to distribute it to antivaxxers.

[@Anon-jg7uj]

"Ah, I just read the next line, Kevin." is something I've heard many a times on this channel and Simon's other channels. It is amazing Kevin's still writing for Simon, or maybe that's precisely why Kevin is still writing for Simon.

[@Abby_Liu]

I love Sam's credits at the end, when they're a gag instead of their actual names it's always a good time.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Agreed!

[@saeveth]

I am recovering from abdominal surgery and Whistler’s many channels have helped me get through. Except his reaction to the metal rods almost killed me with laughter. 😂

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Sorry about that!

[@saeveth]

@@ThatWriterKevin I welcome the laughter, thank you for all of your hard work!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@saeveth Thanks!

[@jessicaw6930]

Simon has helped me through lots of surgery recovery periods. Very thankful for finding him

[@nugboy420]

I was gonna say it prolly hurts then I hit read mire

[@elfymcelferton2187]

You know it's gonna be a good Blaze when it opens with Simon screaming at Kevin.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

That was fantastic to use as the opening

[@elfymcelferton2187]

@@ThatWriterKevin Sam has a very particular set of skills.

[@casadilla111]

2:05- You’re right, the procedure is called a craniotomy for intracranial pressure release. I’ve actually watched one in person before. If you have damage to your brain, ie a stroke, your brain begins to swell and can damage itself from the pressure in your skull. To prevent this, they remove a section of your skull to allow it the extra space for swelling, your brain swells up, goes back down and they replace the piece of your skull. Sounds horrible, looks kinda rough but it’s a very smooth process, at least from what I’ve seen.

[@Iris_and_or_George]

I hope you witnessed this with the consent of the patient/victim!?😘

[@casadilla111]

@@Iris_and_or_George Certainly! I was a healthcare student at the time and just so happened to be making ends meet financially by cleaning post-op surgery rooms. Talked with the surgeon, surgeon got the okay from patient/family and the rest is history! Genuinely very informative, it gave me both a greater knowledge of the brain and treatment but also put the “big picture” of the treatment process.

[@darlenefraser3022]

@@casadilla111That is SO COOL that you got to do that!

[@kittenfantastic7730]

Trepanning or in modern terms - bed side burr hole. It’s still done without a power medical implement. Emergent burr holes are typically done for SDH while cranis are done for deeper bleeds.

[@chitlitlah]

This was in an episode of House, so it has to be real. A doctor in Antarctica (the only doctor on the station) passed out from intracranial pressure so House had to instruct a mechanic to drill a hole in her head.

[@lindseypoore2694]

According to the Mutter Museum, most trepanning patients actually survived, as there's evidence on ancient skulls of healing after the procedure, and even people who survived multiple surgeries.

[@annemettefrederiksen7751]

And because the pain of having a hole drilled into the skull wasn't/isnt an issue as the skull is without nerves, it wouldnt have automatically been that bad, especially if being knocked out by drugs or anything else...Trepanation can work wonders

[@elizabethjones1588]

Which culture? Because Europeans were filthy.

[@jajssblue]

Gotta love that centuries after some of these entries, we still deal with willful medical misinformation. Well done humanity 👏

[@Loralanthalas]

I love more that anyone argues against regulation. Let anyone sell anything and don't even have one national education system. Almost like the rich want the poor to stay stupid.

[@MorbinNecrim86]

​@@Loralanthalasfunny that eh

[@KNR90]

I heard the ED thing on the radio just yesterday in an ad, by some place that just says laser treatment

[@Loralanthalas]

@@KNR90 ah laser treatments: they cure hair, fat, and peepee issue thar viagra won't fix. Odd that those places have never been shut down.

[@Emerald.She-Ra]

Simon's reaction to the metal rods in the urethra had me laughing and wheezing so much, my asthma triggered and I needed my inhaler!😂😂😂😂 It was the "rohhhhhzz" sound that got me! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

"I just READ THE NEXT LINE, KEVIN!!!" ;o)

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Sorry for almost killing you

[@Emerald.She-Ra]

@@ThatWriterKevin that's okay. Still the best laugh I've had in ages!🤣💖

[@MCTicTac]

I work in a Hospital cleaning surgical equipment. Still some nasty metal stuff that goes up there (men and women) to this day!

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@MCTicTac If you're not careful about how (exactly and PRECISELY) you set the search terms when shopping for a TENS device, you might find yourself in a state similar to Simon's... just seeing what they sell AS TOYS FOR ADULTS!!! I'm not sure if it's the availability, or that someone actually thinks it A GOOD TIME... that should be more shocking... ;o)

[@ImpmanPDX]

Bart Huges trepanned himself in the old school way with a dentists drill in the 60s. He wrote a book and did a whole series of interviews/lectures in the 1970s. Also soldiers in the Pacific Island campaign would stretch out their blood supplies by thinning it out with coconut water. It turned out to be an excellent match for intracellular water and can still be used in a pinch.

[@jessicazaytsoff1494]

The coconut water is interesting! Thanks for letting us know!

[@Pucknuckle]

I'd heard that about the coconut water before, it was even shown in a Jackie Chan movie at one stage, I think it was Who Am I? From what I remember reading about it, so long as the coconut is fresh and still green it works, but apparently not good if it's properly ripe and brown skinned.

[@moogle68]

@@Pucknuckle This is probably much more widely known, but coconut water is also one of the best natural cures for nausea (other than ginger) that I've used. I did a month of volunteer work in Costa Rica with a group right before entering High School, and the third week of the trip we got to live with a local family. When I told them I was losing my appetite because I was starting to get home sick (they were relatively poor, so I felt bad wasting the breakfasts they'd make), the father would just go outside the kitchen, hack a fresh, green coconut off the tree, cut the top off, and pour the water into a glass. I've never had nausea clear up so quickly and effectively in my life. This knowledge came in handy years later when I started regularly tripping on psychedelics, which often cause nausea and vomiting.

[@debtjoa]

Yeah, you can receive blood from anyone if you’re AB+ like me. One small way to give back as an AB+ is to donate plasma. We are the universal plasma donors since our plasma has to handle all the antigens. Donating plasma is easy and doesn’t make you tired because you keep your platelets. If you’re AB, it’s a great thing to do.

[@PeachM0de]

I love Kevin traumatizing Simon.

[@Manofvideos292]

Simon looks so relaxed in his comfy looking shirt.

[@Iris_and_or_George]

Until then he got to the penis electrocution bit! 😂

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

it really does look like a great shirt

[@AdamOBrien29]

Upped his game from the sweater/blazer look

[@MrMuz99]

Weird compliment.

[@Manofvideos292]

@@MrMuz99 it's a weird channel

[@olencone4005]

Simon: "I see myself as a fairly productive person..." You host TWELVE KZbin channels and still have time for your family -- "fairly productive" doesn't even begin to cover it! :D

[@ThatWriterKevin]

If you think Simon hosts 12 KZbin channels, you need to go find which two you aren't following you

[@olencone4005]

@@ThatWriterKevin omg! There's MORE!?! "Fairly productive" is definitely an understatement haha! ^_^

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@olencone4005 I believe it's 14 total? Maybe Xplrd was in that tally and it's down to 13 now. I'm guessing the one you're missing is Science Unbound

[@olencone4005]

@@ThatWriterKevin I think I might be missing Xplrd -- that one doesn't ring a bell. I've been following Science Unbound since it was the Science of Sci Fi tho hehe!

[@kaldo_kaldo]

He wants to get that number up to 20

[@zogar8526]

I had minor back pain for a while. Was mostly caused by my sedentary life style, and it sucked. I have started eating a bit better and doing stretches and a light workout and it's mostly gone. But that wasn't even truly chronic back pain. And I'd still take ed over it if I had to choose. Back pain is no joke.

[@sindrek8]

I've lived with it for a long time, if I got to choose ed or continuing to live with chronic pain, I'll take all the ed. Just give it all to me.

[@Cyketteplays]

I've been dealing with severe chronic pain for over a decade. I would take a lot of other things over this any day. Chronic pain is the worst!

[@QBCPerdition]

​@sindrek8 especially since the back pain could make the lack of ED moot. Ain't gonna be much going on if your back isn't up to it.

[@sindrek8]

@QBCPerdition Yepp, there has been times where my back just isn't up to it. Like I said, I'd take the ed every day of the week over chronic back pain.

[@cuttwice3905]

Chronic back pain has been a part of my life since 1974. I reached the point where I had a neurostimulator installed. I've had to have the open back part done twice due to...lets say it is unpleasant. Speaking of a neurostimulator, somebody needs to explain electros€x to Simon. I'm sure he would throw a spectacular fit over some of the weird stuff I've done. It could be delightfully entertaining.

[@adamcavanaugh4940]

Trepanation is still practiced. Typically called a "burr hole" now. I actually watched it done last month for an epidural hemmorhage

[@pmgn8444]

Nice job Kevin! This is the 2nd video that you've managed to freaked out Fact Boi!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Thanks!

[@evelyntodd9946]

You should do a second installment and include when medicine dropped radioactive beads in the holes they drilled through the skull. It was a treatment for brain tumors.

[@kdkorz10211]

The metal rod section was truly hilarious. It’s even more funny when you know people buy special machines to do exactly that for s3>

[@anderman5331]

When my little brother was a baby my little 5 yr old sister went Into his room. Tried pulling him out of his crib and dropped him. Doctors put a shunt in his head to drain the fluid leaking into his brain. He survived and is a fully functional hell of a guy.

[@samsoncooper1]

As a child I couldn't believe that Trephination would work, I thought I had headaches before. Then I turned about 20 and had my first migraine. Now i understand why they thought it was such a good idea

[@drg9812]

AB- is not the universal recipient blood type, that is AB+

[@t.c.7968]

I work in a blood bank at a hospital. We always have universal type O negative blood in stock for emergencies in both the ER and the blood bank. Type AB positive blood is the universal recipient :)

[@michaelq92]

Fun fact: most mild dental work is actually painless and feels the same with or without anesthesia they are just worried about you freaking out if they touch a gum or nerve. They can even give you a pretty good estimate of the pain you might feel if you ask. Post root canal I prefer no needle to my cheek but I also brush my gums everyday and enjoy captain crunch so…

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Indeed, I have had minor work done without anesthesia and felt nothing.

[@pfadiva]

Dental work has improved tremendously even since the 1960s. The air-driven turbine drills are a huge improvement over the old electric pulley-driven ones. The electric ones would vibrate your whole head. And suction is so much better than trying to spit with novacained lips.

[@Iris_and_or_George]

Wtf! Siri actually answered with a correct response? Amazing!

[@billyaitken7461]

20:35 The funniest match of a film clip to the text I’ve seen on Brain Blaze 😂🤣👏👏👏👏‼️

[@callen9623]

💯

[@raquellofstedt9713]

Early european transfusions were also poorly understood because often a relative was the donor for a human to human tranfusion, and often these patients survived, but then they didn´t know that it was because they shared a type. They thought it was because a young or strong relative was sharing their vitality with the sick relative. So then doctors started grabbing the strongest dude off the street instead of sticking to relatives. Then the patients would die again. So it really WAS confusing even if they were to try to use a scientific method, as thy couldn´t see WHY it was working in some cases, and not in others.

[@SlammyWinchester]

Twenty foot crocodiles may be scary, but drop bears are the real threat.

[@jenniferjay4828]

You’re right that a modern version of trepanation exists, I had it! It’s called a Craniectomy it permanent and craniotomy when it’s temporary. It’s usually done to prevent damage from swelling. Mine is permanent and called a posterior fossa decompression with duraplasty to relieve the pressure from acquired chiari malformation (essentially herniated brain crushing brain stem/brain tonsils/spinal column). The procedure predates trepanation with evidence that decompression skull surgeries were fairly common in pre Colombian Americas

[@kittenfantastic7730]

As someone who’s had fairly severe spinal arthritis since their mid 20s, ED a lot of times has links to issues with blood pressure…I mean zapping yourself is gonna send that BP through the roof..at least blood pressure is treatable without surgery 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

There is something totally pleasing to have Simon in as much pain reading as we are hearing these wacko crazed shenanigans of the distant and not so distant pasts 😜

[@zeusathena26]

They still put in burr holes to relieve brain pressure. Also many people survived having their brain drilled into. Many of the skulls that archaeologist have dug up, have shown many survived, healed, & even had multiple surgeries!

[@easybreezy4559]

To be fair I had leukemia in 2012 and one of my treatments was arsenic, twice the lethal dose to be exact! I’m still kicking and my only side effect is some joint pain😂

[@mrscarter6279]

Looking at the list of Brain Blaze scripts that Kevins written..... That durn Kevin Jennings ! * cue mentos smile* 🤭🤭

[@Oxymoron53]

Yep oxycodone, it’s still prescribed in the uk. I’m on it for chronic pain from ruined discs and nerve damage It works as a painkiller but there are a lot of side effects

[@nakamotolikesyou]

The past was the best, especially lobotomies, really scratches that itch inside your mind

[@shanewallace2564]

They do sometimes remove sections of skull in cases of severe head trauma. Usually to prevent brain damage from swelling

[@silgid7450]

Starts 'thanks Kevin ' then proceeds to yell at Kevin 😂

[@thejason755]

Yeah, the idea of urethral-sounding does that to you

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I mean, if I hadn't written this Simon never would've known people electrocuted their dicks and he'd have been happier

[@tawnie8550]

Been a crap 2 days and just got home.. saw this and thought... yep!! A good Simon rant will make it all better😂hope everyone is well! Now time to dive in✌

[@ssreeser95]

When the very start of the video is Simon screaming "OH I JUST READ THE NEXT LINE, KEVIN!", you know it's going to be a good one.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Hope you enjoyed!

[@kyidyl]

Fun fact: meso American people use trepenation successfully. We have a bunch of skulls with healed trepanning holes in them. They used to cover the hole with worked metal.

[@22skidoo99]

Now waiting for the release of the new "Whale Entrail" scent on the Rotting Turtle line.

[@Solostylevids]

What the hell Simon you can’t do this to us 0:09 literally starts the video with the most relaxed shirt, looking completely like every man wants to look😂

[@tadcooper9733]

trepanning has been done for thousands of years and is still done. It is actually a very useful procedure when done right.

[@drg9812]

Yes, just not for random headaches >.>

[@salahudeeniqbal3460]

A full week without the Blaze? I am going to cherish the hell out of this one

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Please do!

[@omniunown]

To be fair on the milk thing, this was the time in American medicine when 2 surviving patients ever was a pretty good record

[@mtvdvm4940]

A WKUK reference in a business blaze script!!!! Well that’s it I can die happy now.

[@based_armchair]

I literally had somone last week try and float the idea of urine therapy to me. They suggested drinking and inhaling it in steam form. No joke! I left pretty quickly....

[@Iris_and_or_George]

18:40 Sam! I see what you did there! That was amazing!

[@alexjames1146]

Twofold Bay is actually in Southern NSW very close to the Victorian border. This is where the Orca pod would work with the whalers rounding up whales for harvesting. This story is actually worthy of a Simon Whistler Production. There is a town there called Eden and a very small town known as Boyd Town built and promoted by Ben Boyd to be the seat of the newly created Federation of Australia. The pub still stands there under the watchful gaze of the church ruins on the hill.

[@sarahissersohn5495]

Ok who was editing here? I laughed so loudly, right after Simon was trying to estimate head circumference - I scared both my German Shepherds You are an absolute legend 💜⚡️

[@AlexSandul]

Yay new business blaze

[@odinfromcentr2]

When it comes to bad medicine, don't forget about... love. 😛

[@AdamMansbridge]

Quite a few people survived trepanation, archaeologists have found many skulls with an extra hole, where they lived long enough for the hole to heal

[@xevsetter1201]

When my cousin had his severe TBI and coma the pressure in his skull was so high that they were afraid that his brain was slipping down into where is spinal cord was so they had drilled the hole and put a stent in there to help release from the pressure and monitor the pressure and his scull.

[@NestoftheSun]

Trepination patients actually regularly survived, as evidenced by the skulls we've discovered from thousands of years ago where they found the holes made from trepination and the bones had healed over, which takes several years to happen

[@StormTalara]

Simon: “it’s hot in Australia.” Me: in Australia, currently freezing my ass off coz it’s -10°C outside. 😅

[@GraveyardrookieGYR]

The last 3 min are absolutely gold Simon and I are on the same page 😂

[@collinclark6086]

An old guy once told me he puts grease on his knees to lubricate them and ease any pain. He would literally take grease from old machines and rub it on his joints. He truly believed it helped.

[@waz207]

20:00 - Fact boy.exe has stopped responding

[@bazzer124]

I can just see it: "Welcome to Brain Blaze. I'm Simon Whistler VI. Back in my great-great-great grandfather's day, they used to actually cut into a body with a knife to repair or replace injured bits!! Cheers....

[@bloodboy9876]

Simon, if you give someone with AB negative A or B positive, you will kill them. AB positive is the universal receiver, lol.

[@Emerald.She-Ra]

I'm Rhesus A Negative, and can't have any other blood except my type. The first time I needed a transfusion, they gave me O Neg because "universal donor". I had a horrendous reaction. Hives, vomiting, itching, my blood pressure plummeted, and I couldn't breathe. I think that was my first experience of anaphylaxis. Now, whenever I need a procedure, I have to remind them that I'm incompatible with O Neg, in the off-chance I need a transfusion. (Which ended up happening during spinal surgery a couple of years ago).

[@christinebenson518]

​@@Emerald.She-RaSure try telling the doctors you know more than them. That's sarcasm. That must have been horrible having surgery and then dealing with anaphylaxis.

[@krypticmac]

Woo new blaze!!!

[@aubreadawnchase]

I've watched more than a lot of the Blaze, and the whale bit has *definitely* been in a previous video 😂

[@duncancurtis5108]

Everyone's quoted Blackadder 2: A leech on my bottom for constipation 😅😅

[@lulucolby8882]

Note to self: Don’t ever tell Simon you have a headache 🤕

[@SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.]

LOL the drop bears reference 😂

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Glad you noticed it

[@darkamora5123]

Technically the first painless surgery under general anesthesia was in 1846 and the cocaine alkaloid wasn't isolated until 1855. While opium (not just the poppy but tinctures and powders as well as drinks) were available, morphine was only commercially available in 1827. Regardless, if cocaine was available at the same time then so was anesthesia for surgery.

[@1whitkat]

As someone with severe chronic back pain, trust me. You would easily trade if for something you can treat with a little pill.

[@JustNormalGamers]

Simon's got that medieval brit vibe right now.

[@Winterydee]

Correction: O- can donate to anyone and can only receive from O- is correct. However, it is AB+ that can receive from anyone but can only donate to AB+. As far as AB-, they can donate to either AB- or AB+.

[@WildSuppositions]

And AB - cannot get Rh positive blood

[@Winterydee]

@WildSuppositions CORRECT any blood type that is negative can only receive negative blood types, which they are compatible with. So with AB- they can receive O-, A-, B- & AB-. But positive blood types are about to receive either positive or negative blood types, which they are compatible with. So with O+ they can receive O+ or O-.

[@sberry80]

If you had severe swelling of the brain, they would take a portion of your skull out. It was usually a 4-5 inch circle, and they would just leave it off till your welling went down

[@johnkacin1500]

Started hearing about people drinking their own urine as a health thing back in the 90's..and i started thinking about the time our bathroom light burnt out when i was a kid and diabetics had to save their urine in cups. My sister was diagnosed at the age of 2..and instead of going to my mom to change the light bulb i finished brushing my teeth and grabbed the wrong one...🤢

[@drg9812]

There are also those women who think there is a benefit to drinking "sea men" There might actually be something to it, but I think someone with a kink was just very persuasive

[@johnkacin1500]

@@drg9812 That is nasty.

[@The_Blazement]

@@drg9812 well, at least it has more nutritional value than urine

[@Oleanderlullaby]

Yeah trepanation is still very much a thing for releasing cranial pressure

[@terryarmbruster9719]

Trepidation over trepanation! 😱

[@ThatWriterKevin]

It's current use is very different than how it was used in the past though. I could have worded that better for sure

[@chrisleneil]

The ending credits 😂

[@sludgetrudger]

Simon needs to do a Casual Criminalist on the Sackler family and the Oxy epidemic

[@bp491]

can someone let me know the movie/series that the clips at 13:35 & 17:30 are from? I know sam uses bits from it a lot and I'd love to watch it😂

[@ScottLewislovesyou]

i just rubbed $#!t in my eyes and it cured my covid ..... thank you Simon

[@danlw212]

Is it just me, or does anyone else have the feeling that Simon has a sign behind his camera that just keeps flashing “No Tangents Allowed” for some of his other channels?

[@terryenby2304]

10:54 as someone who has been transfused TPN (bags of nutrients directly in to the heart basically) I can imagine the pain and stress those poor people died of with milk transfusions 😢

[@Elizabeth-xp2sf]

My dad lives with chronic back pain from a tank crash when he was younger (he's missing some disks in his back now so he's walking around with bone on bone in his spine and no one knows how he's still walking) and it's the worst thing ever. He said the day he wakes up with no pain is the day he doesn't wake up. Take the ED.

[@InsanityReborn]

"... As far as I'm aware." .... well, science time?

[@TFD_Munk]

Twofold bay is in the township of Eden in the southern coast of NSW

[@borderlinebetty8180]

Ahaha opens to simon freaking tf out! Lmao i love these uploads. 😂😂😂

[@twocvbloke]

As someone with ongoing back pain, the thought of electrified rods up my knob sounds excruciatingly unpleasant, and that's from the perspective of suffering slipped discs in my spine, thank goodness I don't suffer with floppycock... :S

[@christinebenson518]

The other day I was reading replies to a comment about old age. One reply said " I'm 80 and still don't need little blue pills." A later one said "I'm 70 and don't need little blue pills." I laughed so hard because a) the original comment had nothing to do with that and b) many men don't need them because they aren't sexually active for plenty of reasons. Granted I think if you're healthy enough go for it, screw till you're dead.

[@sijoneyyan]

Takes me back to the "today I found out" days. Simon looks so young and

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

5:30 Simon, this is your first official warning. If I need to issue you a second, you can forget about getting your annual coke bonus this year.

[@trashtrashisfree]

Urea, one ingredient in piss is fantastic for healing angry rashes.

[@joecampbell3660]

Literally had an ad about 1/4 into this video, but it was soo perfectly punctuated I thought it was a meme from meme daddy, not an ad from business dad google.

[@gabrielamancio6286]

Simon knew I was just finishing rolling a joint and released this video for me to blaze along!

[@SegwayBossk]

I wait all day until I'm home from work to watch, then when I get home I get my Blaze on whilst I get my blaze on

[@gabrielamancio6286]

@@SegwayBossk Indeed, this channel is perfect to get my brain blazed!

[@Karl_Marksman]

well great Brian Blaze, now you got me googling what happens if you do intravenous urine

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Glad you enjoyed and please don't do IV urine

[@davidnewton3064]

I saw an old timey medical meme on Facebook a while back. "You got ghosts in your blood! You should do some cocaine about it!"

[@matthewhodgson7388]

With the Australian convict reference Sam should have used the 2010 barmy army at the MCG singing, you all live in a convict colony. To the time of yellow submarine

[@Zebulization]

I have read that before the arrival of Europeans, all Native Americans (both continents) had type O negative blood. A blood transfusion would absolutely work under those conditions. Unfortunately for the Europeans they had type A, B, and + blood antigens to make infusions quite lethal for each other.

[@sbccmichaelkelly]

“Erythrocytes from 120 full blooded American Indians and 155 Indians of mixed ancestry were tested for the Rh agglutinogen. Only a single blood among the full blooded Indians appeared to lack this factor, and in the Indians known not to be full blooded, the distribution of this (and other) blood properties was found to be intermediate between that for whites and pure Indians according to expectation. A variant of Rh demonstrable by a special human serum was more than twice as frequent in full blooded Indians as in white individuals.” - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135301

[@Oscar-gq4ro]

The bit about ED would’ve been a good ad read for hims

[@kathryncumberland]

The universal recipient is actually AB+, not AB-. People with a negative Rh factor can only get blood from others with a negative factor. But people with a positive Rh factor can receive either positive or negative. I'm AB-, which happens to be the rarest blood type (which doesn't really matter since I can get blood from anyone who's also negative).

[@josephrutkin5017]

I'm unreasonably impressed at how you guessed how much 12 ounces is

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Anyone my or Simon's age should know that off hand tbh. Growing up all we had was cans. Then there were 16 ounce bottles, then 20 ounce. Cans didn't have 12 ounces in their name, but when the bottles were introduced it became clear to anyone who hadn't bothered to read yet.

[@josephrutkin5017]

@@ThatWriterKevin ounces aren't a thing in Europe

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@josephrutkin5017 right...cause he looked it up in ml...and I definitely remembered that when I made my original comment

[@sunnyquinn3888]

It's almost like he's actually read the writing on a Coke can.

[@ItsPizza.]

Ah boy. Phantom discomfort for an organ I do not possess. The past was truly the worst.

[@pelago_]

Woah it’s weekend Simon!

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Love your specs!