Miraculous Medieval Medical Cures Still Used Today!

Join Medieval Historian Matt Lewis as he uncovers the world of Medieval health care,
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00:00 Introduction
01:11 Medical Practitioners in the Middle Ages
02:23 Humors
04:51 Uroscopy
07:53 Bloodletting
12:48 Cauterisation
14:17 Enema
15:25 Leprosy
18:43 Black Death
24:22 Legacy of Medieval Medicine
#historyhit #medievalhistory #middleages

[@markaurelius3119]

😂 this man is pure charisma ! Very entertaining 👍

[@cleverusername9369]

The good doctor here is simply amazing. Fantastically entertaining, witty, knowledgeable, and fun to listen to. Excellent presenter.

[@briganja]

This doctor has me wheezing. His ‘humors’ must be very well balanced, because he’s hilarious (and it’s infectious)!

[@elgersmam]

Please bring this presenter back for more. HE. IS. A. LEGEND.

[@randylahey1822]

I could watch stuff like this for hours, both entertaining and informative at the same time while maintaining a solid production! 👍

[@jimferry6539]

It’s like we’re going backwards, now days you have to wait three weeks for a telephone appointment just to end up speaking to a trainee junior doctor. I might aswell just ask a barber what he thinks 😅

[@pheart2381]

And no dentists!!

[@lvbadcompanyvl]

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[@altonbunnjr]

Three weeks? Must be nice.

[@thewhitedoncheadle8345]

then you get a receptionist who thinks they can diagnose whats wrong with you

[@lorihenderson673]

Vote

[@69JONESYrugbyCHAPELHILL]

You can see the "weekly Bills" of death for London in this inexpensive book: "A Journal of the Plague Year: 1665" Daniel DeFoe

[@jillobrien6291]

Love when Matt does his solo episodes on the gone medieval podcast. Also love Eleanor content

[@Paperskinglassbones]

No one sacrifices quite like a physician who tastes urine for his patients

[@jarodmasci3445]

The humors still exist whenever people waste money on foot patches and anything that "rids the body of toxins". Plus enemas are still a thing that people seek out to cure all sorts of things.....

[@deborahsolimine5438]

This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!

[@pheart2381]

Love the sound effects

[@josephcollins6033]

I love Matt's face as Kevin (?) describes different ways of help for people. He is truly thrilled, and his videos and books show his passion. Get "Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine" today!! Wonderful.

[@gregkral4467]

Wonderful presentation. Thank you very much folks.

[@jillobrien6291]

Please can you do more irish content. Medieval ireland has so much good history

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Fascinating post, thank you.

[@gso619]

I love his unnerving enthusiasm.

[@Ngamer834]

Love this very interesting and presenters fun to listen to

[@javasrevenge7121]

Great upload, thank you for sharing.

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

Great video. Very interesting and entertaining.

[@africanpagan6338]

That was a great Video, thankyou

[@54mgtf22]

Always interesting. Great job, HH 👍

[@Hugh_Morris]

This was fantastic to watch, thank you very much

[@josephcollins6033]

Matt!! I am just now seeing this! Wonderful!

[@sablewright8053]

Very interesting. Informative 😊

[@pentegarn1]

This was the greatest thing I've ever seen!!! :)

[@katherinecollins4685]

Really interesting

[@OthmarsVlog]

awesome 👍🙏💥

[@filmfan4]

Brilliant! I thought this was going to be another video, laying into medieval medicine, but it was thoughtful and balanced. Nice one!

[@Shadow__133]

I had a doctor recommend blood letting with leaches and donation because my iron levels were high 😂

[@massmike11]

Leaches have been found to be effective in transplant patients to help keep the blood flowing to the new part.

[@philbcaes]

I think I seen Kevin at black country museum in the pharmacy. Very knowledgeable chap 👍🏻

[@ThatMargaret]

This was so funny

[@rosaliegolding5549]

It took ages for my Sister to get an appointment for her secondary chest infection she spoke the receptionist and said no appointments for her can be made and come back another time she diagnosed her and deemed her problem was inconsequential the next day she persevered and got 🙏 the appointment Dr then stated she was lucky she didn’t leave it for another 2 days she would have developed PNEUMONIA . Sister stated that the receptionist diagnosed her as not important NOT BRINGING DOWN THE NHS AS THE NURSES WORK VERY HARD AS I DID AS A NURSE , BUT THEY ARE CUTTING BACK AND MANY PATIENTS ARE IN STRIFE PLUS THEY HAVE TO GO LONG DISTANCES FOR ANYTHING TO DO WITH PATHOLOGY ,RADIOLOGY , COVID CLINIC’S ETC I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA AND THIS IS ALL MY FAMILY STATE GOING TO THE DR AND DESIGNATED CLINICS IS ALMOST AND HAVE TO WAIT MANY WEEKS CAUSING THE SYMPTOMS TO EXACERBATE THE SYSTEM IS IMPOSSIBLE .ESPECIALLY IF YOUR AGED NO TRANSPORT OR FAMILY AND LIVE ALONE . HERE IN AUSTRALIA WE HAVE NO SUCH PROBLEMS BUT MAYBE IN TIME THE OPPOSITE WILL CATCH UP WITH US LIKE IN THE UK 🥺🤷‍♀️

[@netto6681]

They certainly do still ask the “have you sinned?” question - it’s just that these days, it takes the form of “how many units do you drink a week?”

[@davidmarsh8852]

Diabetes type 1 would also produce keytones (sweet urine) during ketoacidosis. This is usually when someone's body is at the beginning of type 1 and their body no longer has any insulin producing cells (it's an autoimmune). Type 2 isn't new but it is increasingly common as it is from insulin resistance and is treatable with diet.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

OK

[@RPG_Angie]

23:42 "And that poisons your blood," he smiled.

[@Bluer0binn]

this channel 🤝getting through my history GCSE

[@IMJACKMADDEN]

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

[@mky45lg]

"It's for your own good..." 😆

[@anmnou]

I would have been happy to be in the care of the Empirics 😊

[@lucianograff6512]

Funny guy

[@josephcollins6033]

Matt, did they know about Diabetes in the 14th, 15th C?!!!!

[@cadderley100]

I'd rather not know, nor ever have to find out, what healthcare was like in the medieval period, thanks.

[@mangalores-x_x]

the sfx for the leeches is rather distracting.

[@algini12]

Kevin Goodman, the medical historian seems to be enjoying giving these treatment statements a leeeeetle too much, lol. He was obviously born AFTER his time. He'd have had fun getting out that lancet and also placing the leeches. 🥺😦💀

[@CR-pn3xh]

Good career option for medieval non squeamish guy into watersports. "Have you sinned?" No. "Hmm me neither..., here goes...slurp!"🎉

[@crp110]

This looked real interesting but I can't stand the camera movement.Only got a few minutes in 😢

[@ktwei]

Does any of this work?..... No....

[@Yupppi]

Now I learned why hospitals were sometimes called "lasaretti" in Finnish.

[@blueprairiedog]

Glucose appears in urine with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

[@metalmyke1]

They are playing reruns.

[@alexleblanc4202]

"They laid the foundations." VERY shaky foundations, in my opinion. I can't get over this "imbalance of humors" nonsense.

[@DukeDijon]

i had to pause and read the captions word-by-word when trying to figure out what the guy was saying. maybe give him a script next time.

[@tammyhawley9555]

Very interesting but the fella in the waistcoats pitch in his voice was incredibly annoying

[@John.Flower.Productions]

Kevin Goodman should be ashamed of the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness. History Hit has 1,000,000+ subscribers and constantly uses clickbait titles for videos.

[@lorihenderson673]

Humm People in the early late middle ages "blamed sin" Go read

[@John.Flower.Productions]

@@lorihenderson673 Take your own advice: _"the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness."_ Having a reading comprehension deficiency would likely cause anyone of average intelligence to refrain from attempting to be a smartass. Of course, you seem to be well below that metric.

[@John.Flower.Productions]

@@lorihenderson673 Take your own advice: _"the manner in which he is misrepresenting people's belief in sin being responsible for illness."_ Pathetic.

[@emilybradshaw126]

@John.Flower.Productions Hi, I just did a quick google search and there are lots of sources that state medieval people believed sin was one of the many causes of illness. I’m now confused. Can you explain how this video misrepresents this subject?

[@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061]

^^;; But wasn't it the importation of Islamic medicine that changed it and were the real foundations of medicine for Europe?

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Pitty about the shit music and loud sound effects ruined the video

[@llchapman1234]

People back then didn't know any better. What's his excuse?

[@maryellencook9528]

@llchapman1234 It's an explanation of the scientific rationale of medicine from the Medieval period up through the mid 19th century. Some of the theories were fairly sound. Where herbalist are concerned, willow bark tea, ginger, and foxglove were around before Bayer or Astra Zeneca.

[@randylahey1822]

they were superstitious but not stupid

[@vintage_violet]

As creepy as the practices were this was good “fun” to watch-great production overall but the leech escaping was the highlight for me 😂🪱

[@deborahsolimine5438]

This was very very interesting!! Could have listened to you talking for hours! 👍🏻 thank you! Very entertaining as well!