England: The Broad Street Pump - You Know Nothing, John Snow - Extra History - Part 1

[@ryanharrelson6935]

Medical history is one of the scariest subjects out there. The amount of times people do things and persist in ways of thinking that we know now to be wrong medically is staggering.

[@VicariousReality7]

+Ryan harrelson It is still being written...

[@commode7x]

+Exiled ExDeath It's practically not that useful, but it's absolutely statistically useful. It saves many lives on a yearly basis, but it's not something that will absolutely determine your survival, much like a helmet, seat belt, or Dragon Skin body armor won't be a guarantee of survival. But if you give it to enough of the population, the population as a whole benefits.

[@commode7x]

JayneCobb88 The general consensus in the medical field or any field is to do something unless you can find a reason not to. It's like equipping a +3 helmet instead of a regular helmet. Until you figure out what drawbacks the +3 helmet has, you're going to keep using it. You can certainly avoid using the +3 helmet out of fear it has some status debuffs that you have yet to identify or even conceive of, but until then, you're going to get ganked by people who prefer to use the better equips now and worry about unproven hypothetical debuffs later.

[@Jgoth420]

Even today doctors are very arrogant and hate the idea that they maybe wrong or made a mistake.

[@BionicDirector117]

+Ryan harrelson It makes you wonder what key clues we're missing today.

[@Rhelling123]

Fun fact: Kit Harrington, the actor who plays John Snow is a descendant of John Harrington who invented flush toilet (but sadly the centralized plumbing wasn't all the rage in Victorian England hence Cholera). Seems like the whole family is in a Game of Thrones.

[@eventyraren]

+Rhelling123 Is that true or do they just have the same last name and you just made it up?

[@Rhelling123]

+eventyraren It is true. Kit Harrington said it in an interview. He inferred that's why we call the toilets the "Johns"

[@spritemon98]

That's really interesting

[@MichelFialloPerez]

John Snow: "Hey. Hey! You people! Especially you who promoted me and saw my dedication! Why aren't you listening to me now? I'm trying to save everyone's lives! WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO MEEEE???" Admiral Yi: "Oh, buddy."

[@bkjeong4302]

MichelFialloPerez Exactly my thought.

[@okrish_]

Ned Kelly: *Such Is Life*

[@pilotlist6276]

_You know nothing John Snow_

[@thechickenman3713]

MichelFialloPerez Admiral Yi: “Yi nor noothin, Jon Snow,”

[@mircea_ciobanu]

Teppei Fukuto “dID YoO PoOl a KnIFe OoN mE iN tE NiGhT”

[@lixp7280]

John Snow's mom is so cool to recognize her son's potential early on and sacrifice her savings to let him go to school. Kudos to her!

[@slevinchannel7589]

!!!!!

[@branhan215124]

We should be grateful too, imagine what the world would look like today if John Snow had been "just another coalhand"?

[@Gameknight2169]

“YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN SNOW!” *Little did he know, John knew more than he did.*

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

Cr. C c. C

[@Bxll_Bxll]

That is the words of a man with culture and a brain. Very rare on the internet.

[@grfrjiglstan]

Seems like 'don't put your drinking wells downstream of your sewage water' should be fairly intuitive. Even if you don't believe in germs, surely the concept of drinking sewage doesn't appeal to you?

[@Draczar]

+grfrjiglstan Pretty much all of the people who would be able to change where the drinking wells were would be people who wouldn't have to drink from them.

[@thetroybone]

+grfrjiglstan I'm pretty sure in london they just used the river thames for sewage and drinking water, they realised this wasn't great but it cost too much to actually fix anything for quite a while.

[@jimmyyang5193]

+grfrjiglstan Remember, cities back then were sewage filthy in themselves, yet the population wouldn't be dying on mass. There was no concept of disease from sewage as people were literally walking in shit and yet weren't getting sick.

[@AoRyuha1]

+grfrjiglstan You'd think. And yet...

[@ziuber18]

+grfrjiglstan I know it's hard to belive but even today some people don't know about this (or don't care). I once saw a documentary about gypsies - they were living in filth and bathe in filthy water.

[@Kuntyful]

funny enough, I go to Soho very often and regularly walk past the water pump he locked. The nearest pub is called The John Snow.

[@GarthTheMighty]

Richard Brighton how many pubs are named after teetotalers?

[@galfinsp7216]

Ironic since he avoided beer.

[@jaypillsbury843]

"Here's this cool thing I figured out how to do!" *shun* "I did the cool thing again!" *shun* "Look, how much evidence do you need to see that I am really good at this? I just proved myself _again!_" *shun* Sounding a lot like what happened to Yi, albeit in a different form and for different reasons.

[@dragatus]

+Jake Pillsbury I was thinking the same thing.

[@fernandofontenla8466]

+Jake Pillsbury If it is not a randomized controled trial, then it have no value!

[@jackzayas3269]

+Jake Pillsbury Those who are high in rank and title think themselves to be superior to everyone else, they shun all those who discredit their theories as imbeciles. Its sad how that way of thinking has halted progress many times before. Who knows how far in technology and medicine we would have been now if it wasnt for those idiotic leaders and nobles

[@jaypillsbury843]

+jack zayas *cough cough Galileo cough*

[@nopushbutton]

+jack zayas In this case I think it's another thing which insidiously haunts the scientific and medical community: people don't like their life's work being proven wrong, even if it will save lives. Doctors probably didn't want to face the fact that they'd been treating patients in an incorrect way and inadvertently speeding along the deaths of multitudes, so they tried to silence the guy who said that they were wrong.

[@armaniac661]

Who was that guy that didn't listen to John Sno...... It was Walpole.

[@thelordchar1406]

It was always Walpole!!

[@Akojiguy]

+Mario Krastanov WALPOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE~!

[@andrewwright8181]

+Mario Krastanov GODDAMN IT WALPOLE WHY U DO DIS TO MEDICINE?!

[@farribastarfyre]

+Mario Krastanov Walpole is the new Illuminati. Walpole confirmed.

[@101jir]

+martinverran5 Ah, but what of his descendants?! Surely he spread some dastardly scheme down the family line?! =P

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Why let a few Game of Thrones references get in the way of a good disease ?

[@axl4218]

Haha

[@trollbath]

+scarfacemperor Why let a disease get in the way of a good crusade?

[@TheBespectacledN00b]

+trollbath To steal another channel's meme: stupid disease, always ruining everything!

[@timothymclean]

+scarfacemperor Why let a meme get in the way of a good crusade? For that matter, why let a crusade get in the way of a good meme?

[@papazoulou9326]

+scarfacemperor You know nothing scarface...Wait, that doesn't work. I know nothing...

[@Hostilenemy]

Cholera me impressed, John Snow. Yes, yes, I know.

[@MrMogi-zg2ud]

ha

[@davehoffman4659]

Nice

[@pumpkinpixie9677]

😂

[@janeromila7157]

hahahah

[@amna3682]

*deep breath* wow.

[@a.e.m.1452]

Extra History seems to have a huge quality increase.. or is it just me?

[@firenter]

+Avery Misterka it's probably because of all the extra money they started making since the south sea bubble series I think

[@aaa1e2r3]

+Avery Misterka They have a new Artist for this one

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977]

+Avery Misterka also the writing improved .

[@101jir]

+Avery Misterka Practice makes perfect I guess. Of course, what do you mean by "huge quality increase?" Seemed fine to me before. I don't see how this is any better than their opening on Rome VS Carthage.

[@MrBrendan882]

+101jir It's more well written, and more dramatic. Epecialy with the Admiral Yi series.

[@aaa1e2r3]

As a broke person, I want to thank the people supporting them on patreon for voting for these series. It's always fascinating to learn about these events that I have honestly never heard of until now

[@AlltimeNumbers]

Seriously good guys. Always exciting to see a new Extra History vid in the subscription feed. Thumbs up from us. :)

[@dertchilll3422]

John snow: a literal prodigy, a guy who is trusted to anesthetize the queen Also John snow: cholera infects people through water The medical society: “YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN SNOW!”

[@xandercrosby3757]

I honestly think John could have made them stop being dumb if he just said that the Miasma gets into the water. He is still saying they are right, just not completely.

[@stevencooper4422]

​@@xandercrosby3757It wouldn't have helped, in academia it's just the other doctors felt threatened by his success no matter his justification. You see this today in tenured professors rejecting new archeological evidence from other professors.

[@CazMeister]

John Snow: The Man Who Knows Something Sometimes! Also: Congrats to the new artist, cheers!

[@extrahistory]

Why wait for Game of Thrones to find out what happened to John Snow? He's seeking the truth on #ExtraHistory right now!

[@PINGPONGROCKSBRAH]

+Extra Credits This is game of thrones. Porcelain thrones.

[@AegixDrakan]

+PINGPONGROCKSBRAH Well played. Definitely not a crappy pun. XD

[@AlphaSections]

+Extra Credits OHH! I read about this in a really good book called "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson! I wrote a paper on this!!

[@papazoulou9326]

+Extra Credits Funny thought, I just learned las tweek that choléra was on of the main cause of the tentative of another revolution in France in 1832.

[@Ryokaia]

+Extra Credits did Dan Floyd voice (at regular pitch) the Jon Snow line at the beginning??

[@Merry_Mal]

If anyone is shocked at how stubborn John Snow's fellow doctors are, just remember that in 1865 Ignaz Semmelweis (now a very respected as a doctor and pioneer of antiseptic procedure) was lured into an insane asylum in Vienna. He was locked up and later died in the asylum after he was severely beaten by the guards. What did he do? Told doctors they should wash their hands between patients.Doctors really don't like the idea that what they are doing could be killing somebody.

[@Darasilverdragon]

What's this? SCIENCE in my history?!? And *BIOLOGY*, no less?! *grabs his agarose plates and spare copies of The Journal Nature* ...Let's do this.

[@marcozwinkels2562]

I know you are joking but the only reason disease is not part of history is because disease was very mystirious for most of humanitys time on the planet.

[@marcozwinkels2562]

+JayneCobb88 Interessting. i will search up a bit more about it. An interesting video, at least in my opnion is Crash course histoey season 2 disease where jonh green talks about disease (Oh rly?).

[@Darasilverdragon]

Marco Zwinkels Joking? Who's joking? I'm working on my Cell Biology master's right now, this shit is my JAM!

[@FurryKovu]

+Darasilverdragon I came here as a fellow excited biologist to say something similar....but you said it WAY better than I ever could have. :D

[@Darasilverdragon]

FurryKovu :D Biobros *beakerbumps* What model organism you work with?

[@erttheking]

Bleeding? BLEEDING!? The problem is that they run out of fluids! Medicine was really backwards at the time wasn't it...

[@kablouserful]

I dont blame them, they didnt know shit.

[@javonyounger5107]

+Guilherme Soares nice one

[@andrewwright8181]

+erttheking Reality is the term "Perhaps this isn't working out" never hit the doctors at the time.

[@z-beeblebrox]

+erttheking They had this idea that the body was controlled by the four humors, one of which being blood. And it was imbalances in those humors which causes sickness, so if you removed some from the person's body, balance would return. Since disease symptoms are stuff like runny noses, vomiting, diarrhea, anemia, etc - that all certainly looks like fluid overflow. So it reinforced these ideas, and since few diseases kill 100% of their victims, *any* action to help a patient can look effective eventually. Even if it's just as deadly.

[@braith117]

Bloodletting has some medical uses, but it wasn't all that effective against most of what it was used for.

[@SoupyGuy193]

I'm impressed by John Snow, more ambitious and more hardworking than most of the political leaders I know, even though he was frowned at... He didn't give up.

[@BionicDirector117]

I love these non-war series! Not saying I don't like the war series, but these ones are simply amazing.

[@sundhaug92]

+BionicDirector117 The way I see it. Crash Course is a fast way through the things you'll learn in school while Extra History is the History you won't but would still find interesting if you did.

[@Bxll_Bxll]

Walpole caused it

[@BionicDirector117]

@@Bxll_Bxll dammit Walpole!

[@oscarscadds36]

this channel is carrying me through gcse history

[@Timmone-ql6qv]

Same here!

[@user-hb4zz4gh5e]

Please do a video on Queen Min/Empress Myeongseong of Korea? The way she tried to make changes but continually struggled against people of power around her is just one of many things that makes her life so interesting (and frustrating.)

[@cyansheepster]

I've read a great book called "The Ghost Map" all about the broad street pump. I'm glad that Extra Credits is doing a video on it, it's a great story. If you want to learn more, read The Ghost Map

[@sapiensursus3034]

Thanks for the book recommendation

[@AegixDrakan]

......So you're telling me that they let their literal CRAP water flow into the DRINKING WATER?! *facepalm* I'm pretty sure even the ancient Romans knew better than that.

[@MasterGhostf]

+Aegix Drakan Yes they did, most people in the ancient and classical eras know that.

[@Kursura]

+Aegix Drakan Nope XD Will I'm not sure exactly how the roman water system worked but they did dump sewage in the river they got there water from.

[@Nukle0n]

+Aegix Drakan Also doctors went directly from an obduction to a birth, without washing their hands. Nobody had any idea where disease came from, and it was mostly seen as punishment for being sinful. The first doctor to try and tell other doctors that they should wash and sterilize their hands was ridiculed and hated because doctors of the time considered their high status in society enough for them to be "pure".

[@jimmyyang5193]

+Aegix Drakan That is a long time from 1836. And nonwithstanding the fact that the Roman Empire kind of fell and there was a thing called the Dark Ages, where engineering was not exactly at its height. Nor medicine. Nor life expectancy.

[@blitcut9712]

+Aegix Drakan Even the Indus Valey. One of the very first civilization had a sewage system.

[@fezdalek]

**You know nothing John Snow** Can we make this a new meme?

[@xXsolar99Xx]

+Fezdalek Abraian But it's already a meme...

[@fezdalek]

You know nothing *xXsolar99Xx*....

[@yotamkaspi8508]

+Fezdalek Abraian Would you please tell us how you managed to live on Mars all this time?

[@fezdalek]

+mr box I'm a dalek. That is a little broken. That's the answer. Though I do know people have spaming all over the universe that John Snow is dead. You don't need internet for that.

[@yotamkaspi8508]

R3Testa You don't need to actually watch the show in order to know the meme

[@tummywubs5071]

I learnt about the well in London in my science class.... but by god you guys make it sound way more interesting and go into such more vivid detail so I wish they would just show this to classes instead. History classes would be far more interesting.

[@Wakayams]

I'm working on my major in Public Health at the moment with a focus on infectious disease and epidemiology, so I can't help but get super excited that this is being made. John Snow, the father of Epidemiology... This will be fun. Thank you.

[@classict.j.1311]

I got the whole total war collection and have been loving the Napoleon Wars. These 1800 history episodes have been great for context of the state of Europe! Thanks for this guys!

[@CyricZ]

YEEEEAAHHH! I totally wasn't expecting this! As someone who recently got their Master's in Occupational Hygiene, I learned my share of epidemiology and all about Snow. You guys are in for a treat. :)

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Spoiler alert : if John Snow dies in a following episode, he will not really be dead.

[@pedejo]

You know nothing, scarfacemperor

[@josephwear9572]

+scarfacemperor Even bigger spoiler alert. He WILL die: 1858.

[@franw2054]

+scarfacemperor maybe in the tv series he does die,and doesnt manage to cure cholera

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Joseph Wear valar morghulis

[@josephwear9572]

Inde morte quamlibet

[@1mrgijs]

John Snow, now in "A game of Toilets".

[@TheBespectacledN00b]

+1mrgijs Well, Throne is a slang term for toilet over here....

[@keiyakins]

A Game of Porcelain Thrones

[@KaelWW]

Dude! The Ghost Map was one of my favourite books in high school, I'm super glad you guys are making a series about the cholera outbreak of 1854 :)

[@wizthegod]

I just moved to London 3 weeks ago, and tonight I decided to watch this series. After watching it I googled to see if the broad street pump was still around, I figured I might go and see it. To my surprise it was! And it has been labeled as the "John Snow Memorial" with the handle symbolically removed. However After looking into it further, I found out that after more than 150 years of the pump standing in place as a memorial to the man it was removed in March 2016 and the location is now just a construction site. Drat! :(

[@frogfireFantasy]

John snow, you are amazing! What a determined guy! I wish people now a days were as ambitious as him.

[@labrynianrebel]

Why let statistical facts get in the way of a good miasma theory?

[@andyjay729]

Well, prolonged exposure to polluted air does weaken the body's resistance to germs.

[@walotheman1]

I'm really proud of the fan base of being insightful, tolerant and intelligent. Unfortunately as Extra history gains popularity so too shall the level of tolerance fall. But hurrah for now.

[@FTAVI1893]

Can't wait for the next episode! I first heard of John Snow on PBS and wanted to learn more about him. So, Thanks Extra Credits!

[@Elfos64]

It really is a shame how genius's too far beyond their own time get shunned by their own time by lesser minds. It really makes one think about the role stubbornness plays in society. If it wasn't for strict adherence to common thought of the time, they might have been a bit more open to alternative truths. However, if it wasn't for John Snow's insistence on his theories having merit, he would have just believed what he was told and dropped it.

[@DensetsuVII]

Sadly, I think he could and indeed I HOPE Kit Harington eventually plays this role in a movie.

[@paulpeterson4216]

+Densetsu Productions That would be perfect, and coincidentally, he rather looks like the John Snow character as animated in this video.

[@paulpeterson4216]

Ya Think?

[@roguishpaladin]

Sorry to disappoint, but Dr. John Snow looked like a balding Englishman, more suited to be played by Mark Knopfler than Kit Harrington: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow#/media/File:John_Snow.jpg On the other hand, Harrington could play Dr. Benjamin Babbington, by looks anyways: www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/benjamin_babington.jpg

[@Gnomelord0]

I'm not a patron, so I find it really fascinating to see what historical events the patrons vote on, because I know that Julius Caesar and some really well known events are around on the patreon and yet they consistently vote for things that I never heard of and I'm a historian, its really encouraging. I never even heard of this John Snow who didn't know anything before this, and all I knew about the south sea bubble was "the economy crashed because of corruption and lack of regulation" and all I knew about Admiral Yi was "he won" its really great how they always vote on the stuff that needs to be told. I knew about Odenathus but he is unknown to most people I talk too, so massive kudos to the guys who vote on this, it is really quite remarkable.

[@TycoonTitian01]

“You know nothing John snow” A meme to surpass Walpole

[@randoFNR4872]

Thanks! you make great videos

[@extrahistory]

Awww thanks! We appreciate your help in keeping us going!

[@tinchosabala]

no matter how much time passes, this video will still have the best intro amongst all of Extra History

[@JJuhu]

I just literally had an essay on my exam about living conditions in 1800 century London and this series helped a lot. Thank you extra credits, very cool

[@tummywubs5071]

Wait.... it took him one year to get the GP licence.... HOLY.... CRAP..... HOW HARD DID THAT BUGGER WORK?!

[@fearxhusky114]

Yes

[@aimeecohen1712]

This is one of my favorite extra history series's ever!

[@solace5088]

My history teacher used your Punic Wars series for our Research Project. Keep rocking, EC!

[@kgb9167]

John Snow: Cholera is caused by contaminated water! The London doctors: no

[@muleFUEL1]

I would like to say it has been a pleasure watching this channel grow and expand to the high level of entertainment and teaching it provides today. You guys are the best!

[@MrLuizilla]

I think it's clear what caused the cholera epidemic: It was Walpole

[@-haclong2366]

I still think it's miasma...

[@connorhabrecht9480]

No it was Walpole and his time machine.

[@hexcrotentanum407]

umm is this some reference or what? Please please tell me, idk what this means.

[@joshpollock342]

You guys did an amazing job summarizing cholera! I really enjoy how you keep things flowing while going into a staggering amount of detail for the time of an episode.

[@ListersHatsune]

Oh yeah, I know this story. This was one of the things that my high school history class actually taught me.

[@owenw.1643]

i love john snow's work i got so happy when i found out yall did a series on this 😭

[@Zauk_Anton18]

This guy was great, they teach us im med school about him and the way he revolutionazed medicine with epidimiology.

[@markmayfield2228]

I want to thank you for all of your work. I used your episodes on the Broad Street Pump as a part of a graduate class where we were talking about The Ghost Map. It was a big hit with everyone, including my professor.

[@sinofdusk3]

As a medical student, his story was told again and again in different fields and subjects. A wonderful mind, I would love to see how Extra History tells his story :) Hope its not exactly the same as the mundane version told by my professors with only the salient points. Looking at the first episode, its going to be an interesting series for me indeed (not that the others weren't)

[@andyz6994]

I love this guy! I remember seeing him in the BBC series "Seven wonders of the industrial world." He's a solid doctor

[@thelpcritic]

It just now dawned on me that cholera is secretly an angry tampon.

[@robins5828]

Watching all these videos on diseases throughout history, it's honestly a miracle that humanity even managed to survive. Even in the midst of a pandemic, I'm grateful to live in a time where we've managed to mostly eradicate, or at the very least know how to prevent and treat so many diseases.

[@AxelLeJeff]

I love ancient wars, but I love science more. I'm so happy you're doing this.

[@THB192]

...And this is what makes EH so special. Shows like Crash Course give you a broad overview of history. EH really zooms in and gives you one moment in time.

[@realevilcorgi]

NITPICKY MAP TIME At the time, as far as I know 'India' referred to modern-day India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Also I'm fairly sure that the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine, Finland and a decent part of Central Asia were part of Russia at this time. That little bit that you left out where Vladivostok is WAS part of Manchuria at the time though. Cudos.

[@carsontroeh127]

+realevilcorgi "India" is still (The Republic of) India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The Republic of India is the sovereign nation we know as "India" today. Baltics were certainly west Asia though. Therefore, Prussians, Russians and Slavs were considered Asians =^^^^^^)

[@Mukippowerz1]

+Carson Troeh What?

[@carsontroeh127]

Mudkippowerz1 What what?

[@marcozwinkels2562]

+Carson Troeh Well the baltics arent part of asia. You probably knoe this but as long as humanity can remenber the ural moutains, the bosporus strait and the kaukasus are the borders of europe.

[@marcozwinkels2562]

+Marco Zwinkels Not as long as humanity can remember. i would guess 250 years ago becuz russia.

[@jeremysaklad6703]

I love that this series covers things besides war and more famous events. I actually am already somewhat familiar with the Broad Street Pump story, but I learned quite a bit more about John Snow’s early life from this first episode. I look forward to more.

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

Omg I know this guy! And I've actually had Cholera, you're right it's terrible but it turns out the cure is pretty simple: Drink Water (Several Dozen Glasses) and Eat Salty Food for about 2-3 days. Thank you for this!

[@edemaj778]

Fiaura The Tank Girl Hmmm are sure it was cholera??? Cos it's a horrific disease, highly contagious and patients are strictly quarantined. As a health worker in a country that experiences outbreaks of this disease without quick continuous and large amounts intravenous fluids infusion... Most pts will be in severe shock or die in 8-12hrs.. Drinking will not replace the fluids quick enough and what you drink will just come out any way.

[@years8809]

Fiaura The Tank Girl Maybe not cholera. But the stomach flu.

[@laurelcook9078]

If you had cholera I'm pretty sure you would've been hospitalized.

[@Takeru9292]

Are you being serious?

[@austin2787]

So what your saying is be me on a Friday night?

[@tophatjoe5042]

This was great! We did a unit about The Broad Street Pump last semester, and we never went into such detail. This is also true with the seminal tragedy. You guys are awesome!

[@hoangtran4736]

so you're telling this guy earned his way up to a phd and a position in the rcs in 1 year while we today spend at least 8-10 years after leaving high school to get a phd.

[@haruhideki]

I am in a introduction to epidemiology class and we started to learn about him and how disease is spread. I love these videos. It helps pull things into perspective.

[@yaboykel]

"cholera is one of the most terrifying disease" *Flu appears*

[@dayapreetsinghsodhi7658]

Edit : coronavirus

[@shyhinata]

As someone who works in clinical research, I have always liked this story. Very happy to see you guys covering it! Thanks for the great videos!

[@notbobby125]

Who was voicing the professor at the beginning of this episode?

[@einootspork]

+notbobby125 I'm pretty confident that was James.

[@TheZarkoc]

+notbobby125 James

[@Tailikku1]

+notbobby125 it was Walpole

[@HrtBrkKid99]

Definitely Professor Farnsworth

[@andrewwright8181]

+notbobby125 WALPOOOOOOOLE

[@meh9114]

They really PUMPED that John snow joke

[@chloeturner7554]

I’m stuck watching dis for history 👌🏼

[@Myurton]

I love this part of history. Even though I already know the entire story, I still enjoy hearing someone else recount it.

[@julianneferguson5696]

"you know nothing John Snow!' Hahaha, me and my dad can't stop laughing!

[@GlenKStraughn]

Absolutely love that opening! Seriously, I'd love to see every future E.H. series start with something like that if possible.

[@Bwkjam]

Unwashed bed sheets soaked in human feces? That inn is gonna get like negative five stars.

[@mrreyes5004]

Who would win: An army of undead, icy warriors immune to normal fatal attacks and perpetually followed by giant blizzards and commanded by necromancing winter demigods. OR One infectious boi.

[@LeiosLabs]

This episode really let me know how far we've progressed as a species.

[@alee571]

You knew a lot of things John Snow!

[@ifm2181]

Every historical thing is basically: "I think I've figured something out!" "that's stupid"

[@izzyfloof1083]

John Snow: breaths Doctors: *no*

[@warbacca1017]

I remember learning about this, and my professor went in depth into how they determined the pump and the cause, it was actually really cool

[@DLAlucard]

Hehe the Walpole link should be good for this one.

[@ASking-kp8qw]

It could just be the script, but I'd say all this extra history is making his story narration skills noticeably better by each series, great job

[@Bigbadbo121]

Society: Medical school is so difficult that it'll take years to make it through, and even longer to earn respectable titles and distinctions John Snow: Hold my stethoscope.

[@nancyomalley6286]

LOL! The "Game of Thrones" references are hilarious!

[@Zyme86]

The snow map, the first known spacial analysis and the father of modern cartagraphic analysis...

[@Zyme86]

+Zyme86 static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/3/14/1363276044871/John-Snows-cholera-map-of-009.jpg

[@Sandrockcstm]

"You know nothing Jon Snow... it was Walpole."

[@aaa1e2r3]

England's in trouble time to call the Doctor

[@BeyondSleepy]

This is the story that has popped up independently the most times in the media I consume. It's pretty great.

[@dumpy_frog]

Where’s John Snow when you need him eh

[@TaekwondoVsCokeNinjas]

I have to say, I've loved Extra Credits since they first appeared on the Escapist ( While there they were tied with moviebob as my favorite show.) but Extra history has usurped both and everything else as probably my favorite thing on the internet. Keep up the good work!

[@greenghost2008]

TBH I like video games and all but I like History more. I'd be fine if this channel turned into Extra History.

[@crusaderanimation6967]

Ooooooo guess what budy !

[@eradius]

actually heard of him, its a good bit of history this one, actually remember what happens lol. glad your still doing the extra histories.

[@sisyphusmarble8460]

I wonder if this story inspired the game Contagion significantly?

[@gaijinblow]

"Invisible bugs in the water?! I don't see you with a fungineering degree John Snow!"

[@susantaggart2959]

What a beautiful day. Just lovely. WHAT THE-

[@fearxhusky114]

Cholera r34

[@adambierstedt920]

For people interested in a slightly more in-depth analysis of exactly how London's cholera epidemic progressed, I highly recommend the book "Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic". It goes through exactly what happened in a little more detail than the guys can here, and manages to be a pretty enjoyable read as well. Admittedly, it focuses on the 1854 epidemic, which is where Broad Street becomes important, but still. Also, a slight correction. "Germ" was more than a frowned-upon term in the 1840s; it was a term that would never even be considered. Germ theory was first proposed in a published text in 1861 by Louis Pasteur.