In the 19th Century, Going to the Doctor Could Kill You | Nat Geo Explores

[@NatGeo]

The American medical profession was largely unregulated and dangerous prior to the discovery of the germ in the 19th century. What's the most surprising thing you learned from this video?

[@Cartographer-t6i]

That protective equipment such as an apron can be used as an instrument to know every surgeons progress and their capability. So surprising!

[@dillonmyers965]

Pretty much most of it was surprising lol. Imagine how many more people would've lived if society had listened and accepted the theories.

[@cairomitchell3552]

Instablaster.

[@allya321]

That germ theory of disease is debunked.

[@NurislamPopov]

Pretty much how the public American healthcare system works nowadays

[@wendlermatos2186]

The evolution of medical science is impressive!

[@NatGeo]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching, Wendler.

[@NinjaRem09]

Still is the same today, but it happens so slowly you don't realize it. Me: Eat organic whole foods, 6-7 hours sleep minimum in complete darkness, drink quality water, move your body, go outside and get your vitamin D, know about the placebo and nocebo effect. My Doctor: Ok, i'll give you a prescription for it.

[@-hemloyeno9119]

*you have cancer*

[@-hemloyeno9119]

Do you wear sun screen?

[@cassandradrinkwater9656]

Wrong, the medical community covers it up and called it an accident or out of their control. Wiseness up and question things drs tell you. They might decide to kill you one day. Scarey but true fact

[@azareelperezzapata2433]

4:29 The Bible already said it for centuries: "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forever to them-to him and his descendants throughout their generations.” To clean the body with running wather to be clean.

[@user-mc9xc8vt1g]

Wow I did not get to that part of the Bible then

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Yeah but you need soap. It's true that Jewish religious leaders centuries ago figured out a lot of things about good hygiene through trial and error (not really through science). But that's still not washing your hands with soap, which was a hugely important idea and has saved countless lives.

[@JaylolTV]

only King James tho or get out

[@dogandma]

@@gyozakeynsianism In Numbers 19 soap was made from rendered animal fat & ash (lye) much like the Lye Soap of today. Bible mentions Fuller's Soap (made from ashes of Asiatic Soap Plant+Oil) & Nitre (natron, a sodium bicarbonate type of cleansing agent) in both Jeremiah & Malachi. They also had access to alcohol & vinegar to disinfect. People today even still use a combo of vinegar & baking soda to disinfect surfaces such as cutting boards.

[@dogandma]

Yes! Thank you for pointing out this passage from Exodus! One comment below implied they didn't have soap in the OT but: In Numbers 19 soap was made from rendered animal fat & ash (lye) much like the Lye Soap of today. Bible also mentions Fuller's Soap (made from plant ash+Oil) & Nitre (natron, a sodium bicarbonate type of cleansing agent) in both Jeremiah & Malachi. They also had access to alcohol & vinegar, etc. to disinfect.

[@chadwickhjones]

I mean, every new century will have someone saying this about the previous century.

[@Vanished_Mostly]

I like that visual representation of "not a lucrative profession" at 0:48.

[@arobatto]

Doctors keep our health in check? If that’s true, they should be graded a C- in the US if you look at the statistics of obesity and diabetes. It’s up to the individual to keep their health in check. A general practitioner merely looks at vitals and looks at your bloodwork. They will then treat symptoms caused by disease more than likely with medication. Infections and trauma are a different matter altogether that doctors absolutely are required to intervene and the science of that discipline would’ve appeared like magic compared to 19th century medicine - saving millions of lives yearly that would’ve been a death sentence back then.

[@DeborahVoorhees]

Mid-wives and caregivers told male doctors from the beginning they needed to wash between patients. They ignored the women.

[@Aracuru]

Got a citation for that?

[@imrecco]

@@Aracuru source: Trustmebro.com//reddit haha

[@strbbry]

@@Aracuru There were wise women during the medieval era who were known for the knowledge of herbs and how to help someone, they could also help with births and (sometimes) abortions. There were the first person a poor person would go to and most of their knowledge was generational. During the medieval era, physicians and doctors still believed in the theories created by Hippocrates (theory of the four Humours) and Galen (Theory of Opposites) and many of them would speak badly of the wise women as they needed to stay important and simply because they were women. I think if they did that, they’d do the same during the renaissance and Industrial Revolution eras too. (Let me know if you want a source to the wise women and I’ll try find one for you, I learnt all this from history classes)

[@N3gativeR3FLUX]

The person responsible for saving all those lives was Dr Ignaz Semmelweis. A Doctor in Vienna who told his students to wash their hands between attending patients. He was treated like a madman and died in a mental health facility 2 weeks after being admitted from... wait for the sad irony... an infection caused by the guards beating him up on arrival. Edit: Nevermind, just hit the 3 minute mark and realised it's already been said 🤣

[@vsar1938]

My grandpa went to the doctor in 21st century and it killed him so nothing changed.

[@iwonab5150]

I think it is still dangerous

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

Millions of people

[@jevasamy]

I am lucky i am born in 21st century

[@QueenetBowie]

Anytime after penicillin is good, the later the better though

[@ingmarfris8175]

C G Maybe after the polio vaccine too. It’s still around of course but imagine living in the US in the 1950s in the middle of what was then the worst outbreak in the nation’s history. I wouldn’t want to.

[@jevasamy]

@@ingmarfris8175 imagine living during the black death 1720

[@ingmarfris8175]

Jeva Samy Imagine living during the black death in 1347. The height of the pandemic was 1347-1351.

[@ingmarfris8175]

Jeva Samy But I really don’t see the point of this conversation anymore. I’m not interested in one upping each other. Have a good one.

[@IDChristian]

this is just like nowadays when calling the cops could kill you

[@rhontopo]

...and nothing has changed....

[@biancagazzingan]

How did the Victorians actually survive

[@-hemloyeno9119]

Yea how

[@gyozakeynsianism]

They reproduced quickly. Seriously, in the 19th century, the standard of living in the UK was like a poor country today.

[@imrecco]

they didnt

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

Many didnt

[@tangyorange3463]

Thanks National geography love from Bangladesh!

[@Mariohenri90]

0:53 what cartoon is that from?

[@idontcare7543]

This is so informative.. Lots of love and respect from India..❤🙏

[@NatGeo]

Thank you for the support. Stay curious!

[@williamhenry0834]

0:17 Patient : Does that is too much extreme to surgeon a leg ? Doctors : No worry, we have linceses

[@jeremyboutelle6364]

Well Dentist didnt start wearing gloves until the 1980's so how far have we really come

[@-hemloyeno9119]

They also didnt give baby anesthetics because they thought they didnt feel pain,and stopped at somewhere around 1980

[@One.DeSanctis.]

So true. If not for the H.I.V. crisis dentists would probably still be going in raw handed. Teachers would just grab students bloody noses before universal precautions in the later 1980s.

[@keen9166]

Only the 1980s? yikesss

[@abraham8178]

My dentist never wear gloves until corona struck

[@cinnamongirliee]

@@abraham8178 EWW

[@Tapes44]

i am a big fan of this channel i learn lot of new stuff from here ... plzzz re telecast all those military documentary once again ......... love from INDIA

[@ricardoafonso7884]

I wonder what such videos will say about current doctors 100 years from now

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

1:53 WOW, i saw that coming. Now the analogy with butcher become much more literal.

[@solomonthomas-raja6664]

These people are the reason we are where we are today. That's crazy

[@towjam37]

Gotta love that the title of this video implies that doctors nowadays won't kill you. *eyeroll*

[@lockergr]

towjam37 Doctor Bill Gate's is dying to "help" us all out... 💉😈 Mr. Eugenics himself.

[@RaSheedapower]

do they? or is it your poor health choices?

[@JivanChitra]

... ... Live together, love together, make world beautiful together-together.

[@user-mc9xc8vt1g]

???

[@MultiSciGeek]

I would love to see a movie or TV series about this

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Awesome Video 🌸🌸🇮🇳🌸🌸

[@Jamokai]

Going to the doctor today can kill you, smh.

[@paulnicholson1906]

maybe but also not going when you should can kill you too. I'm sure you will avail yourself of proper medical care once you need it.

[@ggalaxy9065]

It kills lots of people now. And btw, Louis Pasteur once said, "The germ is nothing. The terrain (one's internal environment) is everything."

[@avelus5984]

Isn’t it the same as today in the USA?

[@Rissarchive]

Thank u

[@Olivia-ww7vo]

eh, sure, the US medical system is confusing, but sometimes they do actually help you.

[@immanueldavid6802]

In 19th century : Doctors to all the medical workers, "Wash your hand before doing anything in the hospital." Several Hundred of years later..... 2020 : WHO to the whole world, "Wash your hands...........not only that, Sanitize your hands, Social distancing, Quarantine yourself if got infected by Cov19."

[@mattmc5069]

What I found disturbing most is during the civil war if surgeons BELIEVED a wound was self inflicted ( with no proof) they considered you a coward and they would saw off more of a limb then nesscary and even saw when it wasn't even needed! With a million shots flying around it's crazy to think that they could assume that you just shot yourself. Sure some did to get out of duty but even self shot wounds could have very well been accidental either from a gun going off premature or your buddy accidentally shooting you in the black cannon smoke. And with all those guns going off to say you got shot makes full sense and not questionable.

[@mr.seacreature]

Wow that is a shocker!

[@One.DeSanctis.]

19th century deadly doctor issue Versus 21st century deadly doctor issue= Same basic story, but replace lack of hygiene with antibiotic resistance.

[@coretancode]

respect ❤

[@kuplayfordvalls6781]

They sound more like Butchers than Doctors to me tbh...

[@Guest-u5t]

Imagine going to the doctor just for a small cut and having it amputated. Now there just give med if it got infected. So much better.

[@DD-nc2vw]

I’m bored so I watch these guys I am so confused and I don’t know where to start :/

[@ameerhamza3513]

So basically Ignaz semmelweiz gave the idea of thousands of scrubbing scenes for grey's anatomy 😅

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

4:29 Wait wut?! So they didn't do before, like at all?

[@emmajade4352]

Oh my, life was very hard that time😣😅

[@Richie016]

😲vintage med practices have been life risking 💊💉🌡

[@harryboody]

It still does.

[@electricmiragemedia]

As if going to the doctor in 2020 can't kill you still. Try any major hospital.

[@aiqurga]

The thing is, in the 1800s going to the doctor meant you were MORE LIKELY to die. though deaths in modern day medicine still happen often, medicine has advanced a lot. In the 1800s, you were more likely to die in surgery than if you went without it, now it’s the opposite.

[@Teleported_in]

*No big Deal!*

[@McFlashh]

Learning about history is so interesting. ‘He who doesn’t know history, is bound to repeat it.’

[@nazsalabarria860]

I see not much has changed

[@smalllegs5344]

Funny now in amarica before going to a doctor your first go to the bank to get a loan :(

[@jkerman5113]

Lmao in the 21st century going to the doctor can still kill you.

[@sushanalone]

1800s: How can a small germ kill a Human Being? 21st Century: How can a 2 degrees of warming cause catastrophic Climate change?

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Also: 2020: How can a stupid-looking mask stop Covid-19?

[@ramyun_chizzue9701]

*19th century: cuts off victims limbs, no big deal.* *21st century: Pretty decent doctor but still people tends to call themselves as "quacking doctor* tends to be a human butcher* ohhh my eyes I question how dark world history was 😏

[@Rissarchive]

Love and support this comment👍🏼

[@FreeJulianAssange23]

Nothings changed

[@bigred8438]

Doctors have and still do play God much of the time. Visit any palliative care unit.

[@arisartha134]

the difficulties of living I Putu Aris Artha Wiguna living trapped on the small and unsophisticated island of Bali for 18 years make equality entitled to be protected on his return journey.

[@youknoweverything7643]

No better training after school then good old OJT aka on the job training and what better way for a surgeon or doctor to learn hands on part then doing it on a real patient and a real surgical operation

[@oorzuis1419]

I was thinking about the Ripper (Jack) knowing that chloroform has just been introduced. and none of the victims was known to scream, operations were in the vision of the performer before anesthetics done as fast as one could do. jack is a wannabe surgeon. using chloroform to practice his skills in silence. (wearing a leather apron for good measure)

[@michaelfoulkes9502]

Going to the doctor today could kill you.

[@SubliminalMessagesTV]

"Dr. Death" was a saint 😅👍

[@mattrussillo4587]

If you're talking about nineteenth-century doctors how come you have footage of 20th and 21st century doctors?

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Because that's when doctors started to realize the importance of hygiene and understanding germ theory and incorporated these ideas into the medial profession.

[@EnigmaticRPG]

Doctors Then: Ok, maybe wash your hands? Doctors Today: No, seriously, WASH YOUR HANDS

[@AmazingSurvivalKH]

I mean, every new century will have someone saying this about the previous century.👌🍗👌🍗

[@paulthomas963]

Not a lot has changed. Just the PR. Stay healthy, eat right, exercise, and avoid the doctor for a long life.

[@RonPaulRivet]

In the 21st century, going to the doctor could kill...

[@ShafiqNazrin]

Unless of course, you went to doctors from Arabia.

[@marshavandyk1381]

Not much has changed.

[@jchrg2336]

But still he healed the men of humanity surrounding him

[@Danieles416]

i thought this was a serious video

[@gemmeliusgrammaticus2509]

This is absurdly erroneous. What a joke of a video. . . 🤦‍♂️

[@hansroberts2574]

Took them long enough. We'd already discovered micro organisms like, what, 300 years prior? Yikes

[@ourochroma]

I wanna be badass like doctors

[@indonesianhuntingandadvent3107]

Before anestesi has been found

[@cusco4x295]

That's what happen in Africa today.....

[@rebelheir252]

What African countries have you visited?

[@Jasona1976]

STILL TRUE

[@prasanna2589]

What do you mean "In the 19th century"?

[@ThePresidentMaker]

19th?

[@blesschild365jesusistheonl8]

The doctors now no different

[@Ebonykiss5]

1919 or 2019?

[@ramyun_chizzue9701]

*Doctor can you abort and then people often practice self-curing and doing malpractice to other people.* oh t'was crazy era 😵😵

[@pyukumuku-6645]

Sheeeeeesh~~~

[@jhonlev9104]

cant wai to see year 3000 where they movk us about no cure for cancer and balding.

[@akrossmann1631]

Sorry ...the narrator voice is unappealing.

[@thesun7544]

Umm I’m scared

[@224majid]

Medical is not still complete cure

[@Uwunndksks]

ararrrrrr(:v pense que estaba en spamish)

[@yourturn777]

😂not much has changed! i wont trust them.

[@-hemloyeno9119]

K,umh the a ward is busy so....b ward can help you my lady :]

[@mollifynature]

Сатанизм.

[@thelionsshare9994]

Didn't see any black people🤷🏿‍♂️

[@McFlashh]

Maybe because this is England? Back then there was no foreigners in England.

[@shabchow8d661]

Goofy ahh soundtrack

[@alex_torres3246]

First can I get a reply

[@jupiter-qu3zl]

No

[@gardensofthegods]

@@jupiter-qu3zl Jupiter I agree with you... he wants a reply but he has nothing intelligent to say ... I mean he could at least say where he's from and maybe people will tell him where they're from that guy is ridiculous why does he need a reply ? ... a reply to what ? ... a reply to nothing .

[@DeividManuRos]

:O :O

[@yumeko6335]

Disguhstang

[@saymonmahmud791]

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