Here to see how realistic the alchemy crafting in Elder Scrolls is.
@sizanogreen9900 Жыл бұрын
Me too, I feel like its pretty legit but it pays to be carefull. I'm sure it will be fine and I can start munching myself through anything that looks vaguely edible for profit in no time:)
@BenSuzuki Жыл бұрын
@@sizanogreen9900 Even the Giant's Toe?
@willgames416 Жыл бұрын
@@sizanogreen9900 What about the Vampire Dust?
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@sizanogreen9900 Жыл бұрын
@@willgames416 @Breaden Stewart I gotta say after watching the video I am starting to have my doubts...
@leewolf6434 Жыл бұрын
Love how much of a good time Shad is having whilst forcing his staff to watch Velma for Knights Watch 🤣🤣🤣 master genius 👌👌
@oagardo Жыл бұрын
That's hilarious 😆
@andregon4366 Жыл бұрын
It's good to be the boss.
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@leewolf6434 Жыл бұрын
@@taylorfusher2997 It’s a game 🤷♂️
@knightjack Жыл бұрын
Lol
@krystofdayne Жыл бұрын
It's important to remember that people back then weren't stupid. If a treatment had an obvious and immediate bad effect, they wouldn't use it. But medicine is complicated. Infections, especially back then, would happen "spontaneously" all the time. And if a treatment has an immediate positive effect, like lessening some symptoms, but there'd be a high chance of infection afterwards, it's hard to see the clear causation there, especially if you don't even really understand what an infection even is. Edit: and of course, things like confirmation/survivorship bias, the placebo effect, etc. also had a big effect.
@Lavastaramus Жыл бұрын
Many modern medicines also have side effects. I believe it's usually question of whether the side effect is worse than the symptom being treated.
@Pyriphlegeton Жыл бұрын
But many people today are stupid. There's a massive interest in useless and harmful pseudomedicine. Why would that be different back then?
@ThZuao Жыл бұрын
In the 19th century, Robert Liston revolutionized english medicine by cleaning his instruments and apron after surgeries. Dirty tools and apron, especially freshly dirtied ones, were seen as the mark of a good, busy surgeon...
@Serahpin Жыл бұрын
A lot of medicine they used back then, we still use now. But we don't think about it because it's so orthodox.
@Pyriphlegeton Жыл бұрын
@@krystofdayne Oh no, I know many very educated people who fall for pseudomedicine. Homeopathy would be a good example. It's very popular amongst certain rather educated groups.
@dracone4370 Жыл бұрын
A little side note, European nobles were actually sold Narwhal tusks under the guise of being unicorn horns, they had these things turned into special drinking goblets and cups after they bought them, but the things hardly ever protected against poison. You were more likely to notice if your drink had been poisoned if you were drinking from a silver goblet or at least your cup/goblet had its inside lined with silver. A while back, I read that because of its unique antibacterial properties, silver can actually be a good way to indicate if you have toxins in your drink because the way it reacts can either visually change the silver itself or shift the coloration of the drink in response to the silver's reaction. From what I've managed to gather, this method was more well-known in Asiatic nations, and not really known all that well to European nation-states. So, You could have a character particularly cautious about being poisoned, dipping their silver coins in drinks for a few seconds, then pulling them out to observe their reactions, with other characters looking at them with confusion or reacting like they aren't quite right in the head.
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын
@@taylorfusher2997If you're so curious about Elden Rings, maybe you should head to the comments section of a video about it instead?
@BayWa4eva Жыл бұрын
silver, like platin, is a catalyst. many poisons are rather reactive (as their reaction with the body is what makes them poisonous), so that should work on some toxins (especially if the drink is warm/hot) but not all. however, never put an egg in that goblet because the reaction creating the foul egg smell certainly does use silver as catalyst.
@Lttlemoi Жыл бұрын
@@Amy_the_Lizard I think Taylor is a bot, but accidentally used the wrong account to post these. No sane person would spam such a comment in so many replies.
@RohanSpartin Жыл бұрын
That reminds me of the first Sherlock Holmes movie where one of the victims was killed in his bathtub via a paralytic mixed in with his bath salts that activated on contact with copper, which his bathtub was made of.
@AfricanTransplant39 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for interviewing this very knowledgable woman! What a treat! I really enjoy all the weapon and combat videos, but these are real treats.
@stapelchips6559 Жыл бұрын
knowledgable women? She is a witch!
@theworldofcronis Жыл бұрын
@@stapelchips6559 And a pretty damn good one it seams. :)
@hanzquejano7112 Жыл бұрын
@@stapelchips6559 Or both. Would be awesome
@martiddy Жыл бұрын
@Stapel Chips Most women that were considered as "witches" during 17th and 18th centuries were actually women that tried to make remedies for the sick people. When some of their remedies worked better than the old traditional medicine, they were accused of using witchcraft. Because in those times, male doctors refused to accept that some women were better doctors than men.
@7armedman Жыл бұрын
I amlost puked...fat, old, he needs to bring in hot women. He literally saying this wok shit sucks and what does he do? Prob a lesbo.
@TC-14- Жыл бұрын
Wow those are some crazy ingredients and procedures! The eye needle to remove the lense made me cringe so hard. I can't believe it helped in some cases. So fascinating!
@lincolndunford6693 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the lobotomy procedures that we used to perform not that long ago.
@Great_Olaf5 Жыл бұрын
I took a class where we had a unit on early modern medicine, so a bit later than this, and one of the things that we read about was a potion provided by a priest to someone suffering... Headaches I think? Anyway, the potion was a small bottle of wine that the priest had said the Lord's Prayer over, and written a Bible verse on a piece of parchment and rolled it up inside the bottle.
@lincolndunford6693 Жыл бұрын
@ Great_OLAF5 It worked right?
@Great_Olaf5 Жыл бұрын
@@lincolndunford6693 Dunno, I don't recall if the book elaborated on that, and it wasn't one of the assigned textbooks, it was just a chapter of the book the professor provided us with a PDF of, so I don't have it anymore.
@kellysouter4381 Жыл бұрын
The ancient Romans operated on cataracts too.
@Reason4234 Жыл бұрын
The alicorn is brilliant, if you don't get poisoned, point for the horn, and if people know you carry one, they won't try to poison you, because they know you would just neutralise the poison, thus making people who openly used the alicorn the least likely to die of poisoning.
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.
@UngodlyFreak Жыл бұрын
The unicorn horn scam is actually pretty ingenious: If nobody ever poisons the client's drinks they will be none the wiser and think the unicorn horn is working just great. On the other hand, if they do get poisoned, they won't be demanding their money back because they're dead.
@aengusdedanann181 Жыл бұрын
And if youre the only doctor for a good distance....
@ogreman2229 Жыл бұрын
She seems like such a nice woman and absolutely a wealth of information. This video is a change from the usual content is such a refreshing way. Would love to see more like this!
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@JohnMiller-zr8pl Жыл бұрын
Does she has some kind of "manual" or book of the things she had learn?
@dd11111 Жыл бұрын
Speaking of Asprin, trials are going on right now into use of a compound extracted from willow bark, as it has the same effects as asprin, but without thinning the blood. Willow for use as a painkiller, especially chewed for toothache. Is mentioned in MANY herbal almanacs and medical tomes.
@SingingSealRiana Жыл бұрын
also to combat fewer
@littlekong7685 Жыл бұрын
Native Americans also made a type of lozenge from willow bark and pine needles (high in vitamin c). The colonial leaders brushed it off as native barbarism, but it worked for energy, recovery from pains, fevers, scurvy, and all the benefits of aspirin and vitamin c bring. How quickly they forgot their own histories.
@basedeltazero714 Жыл бұрын
Aspirin *is* extracted from willow bark. It's possible (certain) that people are trying to find admixture that gets the pain-relieving effects without the side effects, though.
@lowtierwaifu Жыл бұрын
Shad, you uploaded at the same time as the Knights Watch channel. C'mon man, you can't try to split us like that lol
@SwedishSinologyNerd Жыл бұрын
Also, Shad, if you wanna add bits of historical medicine in your books, look up Hippocrates and Galen. Both of them, and especially Galen, as well as the Persian Avicenna, were hugely influential on medieval European medicine. I'm kinda surprised Shad didn't know about Pater Noster. I'm an ex-protestant that left the church in my teens and I know what a Pater Noster is. xD
@Ptaaruonn Жыл бұрын
Catholics know that one well too.
@MrJinxmaster1 Жыл бұрын
A point about all of these: Placebo works, the more ritual the better it works, this is well documented. So even though some of these would make things worse, the stuff that has no medical effect could well improve recovery to some extent via placebo.
@littlekong7685 Жыл бұрын
Yes, just relieving the stress can do wonders for healing as your body frees up energy for recovery. As well community and familial support during healing also has a HUGE benefit (Familiar common ritual being a big part of the stress reducing factor). There have been a lot of studies that basically all say the best place to heal is at home (if not a polluted environment) surrounded by loved ones taking care of your physical and emotional needs and doing familiar ritual acts.
@ramennight Жыл бұрын
Yeah, seems he has a misunderstanding of the word placebo. Placebo effect is when something *shouldn't* have a positive effect, but does because the person believes it should. That's what makes it so confusing. It's not just false positives, like the false bites they used as an example, but would instead be if the concoction actually did help some people because they believed it should.
@oagardo Жыл бұрын
It's so cool to see how this lady is so knowledgeable and passionate about this stuff. This was such a cozy video.
@masonwheeler6536 Жыл бұрын
20:47: "What's a paternoster?" From the Latin for "our father," it's a ritual recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
@bomberbob1238 Жыл бұрын
Sounds quite like what we call it in German paternoster= Vater unser=our father
@ARKavli Жыл бұрын
From what I've read, the efficacy of witchcraft was controversial in the church. In the 11th century, Pope Gregory VII forbade Harald III of Denmark from executing witches. Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer was expelled from Innsbruck in 1484 by the bishop of Brixen. He later appealed to Rome and Rome supported him. The locals still refused to support him. When Kramer published the Malleus Malleficarum, the University of Köln theologians and the bishop rejected it. Interesting stuff.
@LB-ou8wt Жыл бұрын
Generally the rise of witch-hunts correlate with protestantism. The Catholic church's stance was either we're gonna ignore them, or they don't exist
@berilsevvalbekret772 Жыл бұрын
Basically. Kramer had a...very disturbed opinion about women like ancient Athenian bad. And the book gained validity because of fearmongering of some priests and truly vile SOB's that didn't like women having even a little say in especially economical or education matters. Basically few bad appels caused some 40.000 woman and some 10.000 men's horrific deaths.
@IuliaBlaga Жыл бұрын
It's always a treat for me when Shad interviews such knowledgeable people.
@Nostripe361 Жыл бұрын
Talking about Radium. It was super popular through the early 1900s. Really only stopped once a man drank so much of it that his jaw completely fell off. The over use of X-ray's on pregnant women led to a massive increase in child leukemia the rather recent fight over whether sugar or fat is the culprit to a terrible diet. Most modern doctors believe that sugar is worse but in the 50s they pushed fat and that lead to a massive increase in sugar to foods to compensate for the lost of fat as an ingredient.
@pubcle Жыл бұрын
The last is always fairly odd to me because fat is something we've always eaten and it's use in cooking goes back to prehistoric civilizations, outsized sugar consumption is a very recent change. The oldest recipes in history have rendered fat as explicit ingredients.
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@Nostripe361 Жыл бұрын
@@pubcle I actually saw a video talking about historical mistakes and its pretty much because of one man. Eisenhower, while he was president, had a massive heart attack and some decided it had to be his diet and not the cartons of cigarettes he smoked per day. Because of this one specific doctor argued that high fat in your diet was dangerous and sugar wasn't that bad. He was also known to be extremely combative and would argue with anyone who disagreed with his opinion loudly and publicly. And with some funding by sugar manufacturers we get where we are today where pretty much everything in the US diet has massive amounts of addictive sugar added.
@littlekong7685 Жыл бұрын
@@Nostripe361 He was funded by coca cola, they specifically hired him because he was a marketing specialist who happened to do science on the side. They spent 5 years of marketing budget to basically push sugar=good, fat=bad on a global scale because their drink had lots of sugar and kids were having heart attacks and they worried government regulation might come in and shut them down (or at least out them from massive market sectors). So they pushed legislators to worry about fat, and scared the public about fat so much that they couldn't put resources into testing sugar. That was when coca-cola released their (Very) flawed biased research as "proof" that sugar was good, any argument basically had to go through this research and was stalled. Any counter research was actively sabotaged, legislated against, or pre-discredited to protect them from real government oversight. The worst part is his own research showed: Sugar is addictive (So they actually upped the sugar contents). Children are an easily addicted market (So they pushed child friendly ads and forced schools to add vending machines to better sell to kids). Caffeine is harmful to kids (But also highly addictive, especially to kids, so they upped that too). Sugar causes many harmful effects and fat in normal amounts is healthy, large amounts can be dangerous (About 1/10 as dangerous as high sugar can be). They knew this, and they fudged their results to hide this even though they KNEW from his own research.
@robo5013 Жыл бұрын
X-rays were also used to remove hair and wrinkles in the U.S. Beauty salons would do x-ray hair removal or wrinkle removal services. It was banned in 1946 but some people went to back alley salons to continue the treatments. A study done in 1970's concluded that 35% of radiation based cancers in women were caused by x-ray hair removal treatments.
@DSzaks Жыл бұрын
My favorite witch trial was the guy in Salem who was crushed to death and refused to provided testimony cuz he said the whole trial was a sham and every time they asked if he would like to confess he would tell them that their puny rocks didn't weigh enough. What a Chad.
@olivegrove-gl3tw Жыл бұрын
he got crushed to death? o.O
@DSzaks Жыл бұрын
@@olivegrove-gl3tw yes he was but he never gave in to them and maintained his pride throughout the entire thing.
@berilsevvalbekret772 Жыл бұрын
Gigachad.
@samuelmellars7855 Жыл бұрын
@@olivegrove-gl3tw he refused to enter a plea of innocent or guilty. They tortured him to get him to enter a plea, by putting a board on him and putting stones on top. He would only say "more weight", until he was crushed to death. If he had pled guilty, his lands may have been forfeit as part of his punishment. If he had pled innocence and been found guilty by the (massively corrupt) court, his lands could have been forfeit as part of the punishment. By not entering a plea, his lands passed to his children (daughters I believe) when he died.
@ianswinford5570 Жыл бұрын
The “balancing the humors” thing was around up until the 18th century. In fact, first US President George Washington’s doctors used the “balancing humors” logic to treat him when he was on his death bed. They blistered his throat, bled him, and had him drink substances that made him vomit and have diharrea.
@tiredman99 Жыл бұрын
I'd really like to see more videos with this Medieval doctor. She's very well spoken and knowledgeable on what she's talking about. Great that she lets you do a video with her
@TheShieldery Жыл бұрын
fun fact: Oin in "The Hobbit" became the doctor, because the writers had a good laugh at the idea that apOINtment was named after him.
@clarabrown9743 Жыл бұрын
And also Ointment.
@Reason4234 Жыл бұрын
I love that woman, she seems so nice!
@speciallasagna8521 Жыл бұрын
Hey Shad, Pater Noster is Latin for "Our Father". It's the Latin version of the Lord's Prayer from the New Testament. My family's parish in Ohio uses the Latin version at every Mass. It could certainly sound like a magic spell to someone unfamiliar with the language.
@AW-uv3cb Жыл бұрын
I remember a teacher telling us that "hocus pocus" came from a contraction and distortion of the "hic est corpus meus" (this is my body) that the priest would say during the transformation of bread and wine at the mass. People not knowing Latin would hear this mumbling and repeat it like a magic spell.
@SepticFuddy Жыл бұрын
Now imagine them hearing "Avinu shebashamayim..." ;)
@PhilBagels Жыл бұрын
I knew that, and I'm Jewish. "Pater Noster" is also the term for an old-fashioned type of elevator. They would come in pairs moving continuously up on one side, then they get to the top and move over to the other shaft and move down continuously until they got to the bottom, and slide over to the up side and so on. They were rather dangerous because they were open and always moving. They were called "paternosters" because you had to say a prayer not to get killed jumping on or off one. And speaking of being Jewish, one of the medieval doctors she mentioned, Moses Maimonides, is very well-known in Judaism. He is more known today for his writings on religion, philosophy, and ethics, more than on medicine. He was truly brilliant, but also a bit arrogant. He said, "From Moses to Moses, there was no one like Moses," comparing himself to Moses from the Bible.
@basedeltazero714 Жыл бұрын
@@PhilBagels I thought the 'pasternoster' name for elevators was due to their resemblance to a rosary chain. They're definitely dangerous though... As to hocus pocus, that's one of several theories, and it's worth noting that origin was suggested by an archbishop of the Church of England _specifically_ as an argument against the Latin mass. Other suggestions are it's a latinized name of a possibly mythical Norse sorceror, or that it's an evolution of a different psuedo-latin rhyme 'hax pax max deus adimax' (something like 'this mighty salutation we offer before God the greatest', used to invoke spirits (as in, originally it was an *earnest* magic thing)). We know for a fact that the earliest recorded appearance of the phrase 'hocus pocus' is in 'Hocus Pocus Junior: An Anatomy of Legerdemain', a book on stage magic written in 1635, and that it may have been the stage name of a (stage) magician before that.
@PhilBagels Жыл бұрын
@@basedeltazero714 You may be right.
@SwedishSinologyNerd Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, earthworm, called Dilong or Earth Dragon are still commonly used as an heat-clearing herb in Chinese medicine. It tastes like actual crap but it works rather well. Cataract surgery is also one of the few surgeries that weren't discontinued in China (Hua Tuo of the late Han dynasty ca 200 AD was the last great Chinese surgeon and the practice pretty much died with him due to the Chinese taboo against 'mutilating' the body), the reason it survived was mainly because it was easy, relatively painless aand had a high success rate. A lot of historical medicine was very touch and go, the better doctors were usually the ones with lots of practical experience rather than medical theory (the promting of puss is a classical example of a logical conclusion drawn without observation, since anyone would see a runny wound would heal slower or cause more problems for a patient than a mostly clean wound).
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@littlekong7685 Жыл бұрын
I love this because we learn in Anthropology just how life sustaining practical experience mixed with traditions helped humanity grow. We knew what plants were poisonous because someone found out and told the rest (or they noticed patterns when eating specific foods of being in certain areas causing sickness), then we passed that knowledge down through tradition until it became folklore. Small things like healers washing hands because when they did, surgeries tended to go better than when they didn't. They made up lore as to why so as to more easily educate the next generation. The trouble came when "gentlemen" changed their attitudes and the lore failed to follow because they never asked WHY the old traditions said to wash, only that washing purified the body (but if they are already "pure" then it must not be for them).
@robo5013 Жыл бұрын
Indians, Greeks and Romans all had cataract surgeries as well. One of the Roman methods was to insert a hollow needle, move it around to dislodge the film then suck it out through the other end of the needle. They would then use vinegar lotion, breast milk or copper oxide to help the eye heal.
@SwedishSinologyNerd Жыл бұрын
@@robo5013 afaik, the Chinese learnt it from Indians (they will likely deny this tho xD), I remember reading that India was also the first civilisation to invent, or at least record, cataract surgery, so it’s possible it spread to the west from there as well.
@BayWa4eva Жыл бұрын
@@SwedishSinologyNerd india still is the world's apothecary. sure they make the cheap stuff nowadays (and sometimes in poor quality) but the cheap stuff is the most important medicine. the more of a problem an illness is, the earlier it gets researched and the more the solution gets engineered, leading to really really cheap production cost and high success rates. so much that humans outside of india (and a few other countries) become too expensive to make that vital medicine. so at the beginning and the end it is india. at first because they are so great and at the end because they are so cheap. oh the irony.
@corvoadrian6970 Жыл бұрын
Nice chad thanks for bringing this topic of medicine from medieval times, maybe do one video about first aid in combat next, that's a very interesting knowledge, keep the amazing work my friend
@Notsram77 Жыл бұрын
His name isn't 'chad', it's THAD
@meria2082 Жыл бұрын
No, his name is obviously Rhad.
@ilari90 Жыл бұрын
"Puss was what healed the wound, so they would want to enhance the amount of puss in the wound, putting strips of bacon on it." "So it got infection and created more puss..." Festus the Leechlord: "Yeeeessss..!"
@Vandelberger Жыл бұрын
Nurgle priest confirmed.
@rhettorical Жыл бұрын
Pus has one s. Two is a cat.
@TheWickedWizardOfOz1 Жыл бұрын
@@rhettorical Puss can heal wounds as well. Place it on the wound and power it up, make sure the motor is running, and the patient will feel much better.
@jaegercat6702 Жыл бұрын
@@rhettorical or…the other thing
@kellysouter4381 Жыл бұрын
Eeewwww!
@DeNihility Жыл бұрын
I'm suddenly very thankful for, and appreciative of modern medicine and modern medical practices.
@PANCAKEMINEZZ Жыл бұрын
This has been a lovely video to watch while I eat dinner. Thank you, Shad... From the bottom of my stomach.
@kellysouter4381 Жыл бұрын
🥞🥘🥧🥤🤮
@benkayvfalsifier3817 Жыл бұрын
The story about the bits of poison creating resistance may be true. I remember watching a video here on yt about a guy who takes care of some of the world's most venomous snakes to make anti-venom. He said he's been bitten a few times and discovered that the effects seemed less effective after every bite so he started injecting himself with small amounts to build up immunity.
@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын
You can build up immunity to toxins that the body is actually capable of breaking down or ignoring by essentially training it to get better at breaking it down, or training it to function in spite of its presence (same as building a tolerance to alcohol or specific drugs) but if it's something that trashes cells and can't be broken down, there's not really anything you can do to become resistant. The downside is that prolonged exposure to the toxin could still be harmful. For instance, an alcoholic needs to consume more alcohol than a normal person for it to effect them, and in some cases may be able to survive drinking quantities of alcohol that would be lethal to a non-alcoholic because their neurons are used to having to work around the alcohol, but all that alcohol consumption is still slowly damaging their liver, and if they stop consuming it suddenly they'll go into withdrawal because they're body isn't used to functioning without it anymore. Taking small amounts of the same poison over a long period of time to gain resistance to it runs the risk of potentially having something similar occur
@benkayvfalsifier3817 Жыл бұрын
@Amy I agree. I was responding to Shad's seeming disbelief in such a possibility.
@feuerling Жыл бұрын
Antivenom is created by immunizing animals like horses or cows to a venom and then extracting the antibodies from their blood. Same thing, but on a larger scale.
@benkayvfalsifier3817 Жыл бұрын
@@feuerling I knew that venom from the source animal was needed to make antivenom, but not the actual process to make it. Thx for the info.
@adambielen8996 Жыл бұрын
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 Yes, so basically a horse or cow needs way more venom to kill them. So by only injecting a little bit they will just make the antibodies and survive. In theory this can be done with humans but it is highly dangerous as only a very little venom will kill us.
@amaleeb6438 Жыл бұрын
I love this series chatting with people at festivals about their area of interest!
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@geoshark12 Жыл бұрын
This is also proof that midevel people were not stupid,they sometimes didn’t have correct information as the base but they weren’t stupid Though some assumptions were very wrong
@B.D.E. Жыл бұрын
No one suggested they were stupid?
@lonelystrategos Жыл бұрын
@Fizzishin Lots of people think everyone in the medieval world was stupid. I've met several of them in my life.
@TheSuperRatt Жыл бұрын
@@lonelystrategos They weren't inherently less intelligent, they were just... challenged, and made odd assumptions. The idea that medieval (and earlier) people were stupid, stems from the fact that they made a lot of incorrect assumptions, about things that were (with the technology available) easily disprovable through observation.
@geoshark12 Жыл бұрын
@@lonelystrategos we can thank the Victorian era for that
@geoshark12 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSuperRatt I wouldn’t even say challenged, they had the same brains as we do now , the big difference is technology and what they can observe while testing , and people still make very odd assumptions like the earth being flat or vaxccines causing autism
@ARKavli Жыл бұрын
Excellent! I incorporated theriacs and Mithridates in my historical Renaissance RPG, along with other not-particularly effective treatments. There were even competing theriacs from different masters. It's amazing the dichotomy between the things they knew that were highly effective and bezoar stones, casting star charts, and unicorn horns.
@Serahpin Жыл бұрын
19:00 "The difference between a medicine and poison is dosage" is standard medical knowledge, not just some random aphorism.
@Tyka_F4FT Жыл бұрын
Seeing your materials from medieval festivals brings one thing up in my mind. Get yourself a pair of historically accurate glasses, those would fit your clothes and you can make a hella interesting video of it.
@als3022 Жыл бұрын
They take a little practice to wear, but I agree him getting a period correct pair would be great.
@Serahpin Жыл бұрын
15:00 Silver tarnishes when exposed to sulfur poisons. It doesn't cure the poison, but it _does_ readily detect it.
@seanmcguire1952 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother had a blood disorder called, polycythemia vera. The body produces an excess of blood. Leaches is one possible modern treatment method.
@LuccaV1314 Жыл бұрын
As a doctor this was so interesting! Nice work Shad, I’m big fan from Brazil
@DarkSoulSama Жыл бұрын
Speaking of Mithridates VI Eupator, in Dragon's Dogma, "Mithridate" is a herb that cures poison.
@davidsigler9690 Жыл бұрын
"The Poison King: The Life And Legend Of Mithradates-Rome's Deadliest Enemy." By. Adrienne Mayor; good book.
@Edino_Chattino Жыл бұрын
Once again, fantastic episode. I wouldn´t mind a series on every aspect of medieval daily life.
@mikeparsons1746 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. In the book/show Outlander, a nurse from the 1940s is transported back in time to the early 1700s. Her knowledge of medicine far outpaces that of the time, and she has to adapt what she knows to the herbal treatments of the day. This presentation reminds me of that.
@tessareea Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this! Even if they don't understand how or why something works, if it works, it works!
@littletenzo3494 Жыл бұрын
shadaversity is one of my comfort channels. thank you shad
@easyyo6784 Жыл бұрын
that was interesting. good interview :)
@derheadbanger9039 Жыл бұрын
I wish you could have her (and others) as guests on the show. Preferrably in person... Or to do lectures in your own castle, years from now.😉
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@iDEATH Жыл бұрын
Great video! Doesn't the "theriac" (sp?) sound like it could be the basis for "snake oil" cure-alls? And that thing about using short prayer or chants to time/count mixing was mind blowing for me, in no small part because it seems so obvious after hearing it; it's like counting Mississippis!
@B.D.E. Жыл бұрын
Yep, and other words for them from the time actually do translate to something similar to cure-all. Probably a lot more snake oil type salesmen in those days than there are now!
@masonwheeler6536 Жыл бұрын
When Kodak introduced modern color photography film, (color film existed before Kodachrome, but it was of extremely poor quality,) the process was developed not by professional engineers, but by a pair of musicians who dabbled in amateur chemistry and photography. It was their musical talent that actually made it work: by singing passages they could time the chemical reactions more precisely than the laboratory instruments that were available in the 1920s, giving them a leg up on other researchers.
@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын
Actually, the term "snake-oil" being used to refer to fake medicines in the US derives from a literal snake oil (melted snake fat) that some Chinese immigrants that worked as laborers in the 1800s used for joint pain. Ironically, the fat from the type of water snake they were using actually does work due to specific compounds it contains, but people started making cheap knock-offs out of various other snakes native to the US, and those didn't do anything, which spawned the saying...
@mkuttler01 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thanks for doing these interviews and sharing with us. I love em.
@hoo7797 Жыл бұрын
20:47 the Pater Noster is what's called the Lord's Prayer, but in Latin (the first line is "Our Father" which in Latin is "Pater Noster")
@linwong1494 Жыл бұрын
Wow! I wish she had a youtube channel because this stuff is so so interesting! I'm a folk magick practitioner, so seeing this was so cool. A time when magick and medicine were not so far from one another.
@Oikolukuhirvi Жыл бұрын
Mithridatism is named after Mithridates VI Eupator (135-63 BC), King of Pontus in Northern Anatolia, modern Turkey. I first learned of this guy by playing Expeditons: Rome, a great game!
@masonwheeler6536 Жыл бұрын
One noteworthy ingredient in Theriac was opium. So yeah, like the mandrake root, it would have had some level of "dimming your awareness" that could have beneficial medicinal effects, as long as you didn't take too much of it.
@theworldofcronis Жыл бұрын
Love your normal content (5/5), and this kind of deepdive is pure gold. giving Shadiversity an avg score 6 on scale 1 to 5.
@ScratchySpoon Жыл бұрын
Another great one Shad! I'm loving these vids where you introduce someone from a medieval fair and have them share with us what they know and we get to see what's similar today and what's different, and what we didn't know about our ancestors.
@charlesmartinez5869 Жыл бұрын
Neat. That note about reciting a phrase to keep track of time is really interesting.
@simpson6700 Жыл бұрын
always love the medieval festival videos
@janette2422 Жыл бұрын
Hey Shad; Roman Catholic here from USA. "Pah-tehr Not-ster' is the Our Father prayer in Latin
@anodyne4670 Жыл бұрын
She's incredibly charming.
@speed150mph Жыл бұрын
What’s funny is how many of these remedies I know from working with livestock, we still use many of them. For example, some vets use silver nitrate as a cauterizing agent and to prevent infection. I know some farriers who use copper sulphate for thrush in hooves. When dealing with hoof abscesses we commonly use Epsom salts to draw out the infection. For muscle inflammation and swelling, I’ve used clay poultices on a few occasions with great success.
@jeffrey778 Жыл бұрын
this lady was really cool. thanks for the content
@drago2210 Жыл бұрын
12:55 Yo Shad this is in Dragon's Dogma too! Mithridate - "A type of herb that grows throughout Gransys. Consume it to purge the body of poison." Now I wonder what other myths they secretly reference in there that I had no idea about.
@josephnebeker7976 Жыл бұрын
I love your interviews at these fairs. Keep them up!
@GarnachoEmpire712 Жыл бұрын
As someone who studies medicine through time in gcse this is great and even helps with revision
@TheSpeep Жыл бұрын
On the radium medicine, I also remember wristwatches with a radioactive backplate were very common, i think especially for children, because that way you could read them in the dark. And what could possibly go wrong walking around with a slab of radioactive material all day?
@parva777 Жыл бұрын
This one is fantastic ! Thank you Shad !
@ApfelJohannisbeere Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this medieval knowledge with us!
@elusiveflame7786 Жыл бұрын
Loving these festival interview videos!!! Keep it up Shad!!!
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@SeantheBawse Жыл бұрын
Loving these festival videos. They bring me back to my chuldhood. I know it's not related, but my quest makes no exceptions: Shad, review A Knight's Tale!
@tomdijkstra4196 Жыл бұрын
A lot more interesting informations than I thought! Great video ! I actually went to Guy de Chauliac Hospital (not a medieval one) in Montpellier, France, and now I know why its called that way !
@korone609 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see this. I am ironically allergic to a lot of allergy medication so I have been using natural treatments for years for seasonal allergies.
@alexshadowfax1119 Жыл бұрын
I figured you weren't uploading videos anymore as I haven't seen any in my subscription feed for a couple months, but lo and behold you've uploaded plenty and I just wasn't getting notified.
@abcdef27669 Жыл бұрын
"Doctor, I have an ingrown nail...". "Ok, let's prepare the instruments for the trepanation...".
@lasselen9448 Жыл бұрын
There is one thing this otherwise captivating interview needs: a big "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS" warning.
@TheWickedWizardOfOz1 Жыл бұрын
I cured my sister's blind eye by following the tips in this video, I don't know what you're talking about
@Likexner Жыл бұрын
Or maybe just dont let kids and mentally deficient people watch it.
@Riwillion Жыл бұрын
The practice of mithridatism (named after Mithridates) actually does work, but only for certain poisons. Basically, if your body can learn to metabolise the toxin faster than normal, then you can make yourself more resistant to it, even significantly so. There is at least one video on the topic on youtube in case anyone is interested.
@evanquintana4778 Жыл бұрын
This is incredibly interesting, to see where these technologies originated. The evolution from raw materials into precise synthesized prescriptions.
@dragonfireink139 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! So much interesting information to get us started
@grayrook8637 Жыл бұрын
Pretty crazy what work even today. Like maggots and leeches are both highly valued for their unobtrusive means of removing blood and necrotic tissue respectively. A leech jaw can make a cut more precise than and clumsy human tool just by natural design.
@ZeroSalvator Жыл бұрын
I don't know if any of the bestiaries refer to unicorns as alicorns. However I do know the (horn) of a unicorn is referred to consistently as alicorn. A modern misnomer is alicorn being used to refer to a unicorn and pegasi (pegasus plural) hybrid.
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.
@matiasfalcone2821 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the aspirin, a lot of modern (and not so modern) compounds used in medicines started as destilled and proccesed forms of medicinal herbs used in the past. Nowadays we can identify the specific compound, extract it and concentrate it to be more effective, but the plain herb had some effect. The extraction of salicylic acid to produce acetylsalicylic acid is a rather common chemical lab experiment in some chemestry related university classes.
@jmiki89 Жыл бұрын
20:48 "Pater Noster" (literally meaning "Our Father" in latin) are the first two words from the Lord's Prayer. As the prayer was chanted in latin which the average medieval people did not speak, therefore the whole prayer was just some meaningless mumbo-jumbo, the opening words became the name of the prayer, often in the form of "paternoster". Similar as Ave Maria aka Hail Mary, though to be honest I don't know if the Lord's Prayer is casually referred as "Our Father" by native english speakers these days (we do call it "Mi Atyánk" in Hungary, which - you guessed it - the hungarian translation).
@adorabell4253 Жыл бұрын
I love these videos. Just a wealth of knowledge and fantastic interviewing.
@ginnyjollykidd Жыл бұрын
Kohl (not the store) is an eyeliner made from charred wood in the Middle East and in India from wood ashes. They were put around the eyes to protect them from infection. Especially a baby's eyes because they could easily get an infection as they were born. In the 1960's, in America, silver nitrate, a photography chemical, was used in a newborn's eyes. Today, an antibiotic-erythromycin-is used to prevent infection and blindness in newborns' eyes.
@JayU10 Жыл бұрын
Dude, Shad is looking great!
@atpsynthase7990 Жыл бұрын
It's a little odd that you're so surprised that so much of it works. Galenic medicine was dominant for more than a thousand years and had a very strong, deep and broad theoretical basis in Neoplatonic philosophy, every bit the European equivalent of traditional Chinese medicine.
@andregon4366 Жыл бұрын
That Cataract treatment gave me a shiver from the bottom of my spine to the bottom of my skull. Yikes.
@JeremieBPCreation Жыл бұрын
Great fascinating video! Love learning with Shad!
@reaganjanaerichard5009 Жыл бұрын
I just love this stuff so much.
@serindas Жыл бұрын
I'm a collector of old books, and trust me, you will find several weird statements about medicine even in books of the 1920.
@frostdova5 ай бұрын
This video showed up in my recommendeds, loved every bit of it
@alext6933 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Lots of info.
@leemansius6078 Жыл бұрын
Mithridates had banquets of poisons and antidotes covered over the food. He wasn’t the only one to practice this. What gave him the nickname Poison King was his collection of rare and exotic poisons
@ShadoClone Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised Shad, as a professed Dragon's Dogma lover, didn't recognize Mithridate. It's a curative herb in the game that, wait for it, cures the Poisoned status effect.
@FVWLN Жыл бұрын
Theriac was really a fascinating and VERY popular stuff. Especcially from Venice, they sold it all over europe. In almost all (wealthy) parts of Europe, the seals from Theriac bottles or boxes can be found (today these are populpar collector items)
@dwarlord3716 Жыл бұрын
The thing I learned. Is that even with our modern medicine we still use a lot of medieva/ancientl medicine/remedies today. A lot of that I learned from the channel 'today I found out.' modern society has refined/improved the medicine and techniques, but the concepts are still there. Such as leeches. We Still use leeches today. (Albeit, as a last resort.) To reattach severed limbs and fingers. There are special enzymes in the leeches saliva that prevents blood clotting during the reattach process.
@matthewlofton8465 Жыл бұрын
chanting the Pater Noster reminds me of the covid handwashing guidelines where you were advised to sing the Happy Birthday song as you washed your hands (to give yourself enough time for the surfactant to do its work). I wonder if that is the origin of these chants, just a convenient way to time how long you needed to perform a process?
@tabithaalphess2115 Жыл бұрын
This is so cool! I did some research on Victorian-era medicine for my fantasy setting as it's entering into the industrial revolution. But some parts are still very much in the medieval or Renaissance period, so it's very interesting and very helpful to learn what types of medicines they would likely use. Especially because in my world, magic itself is quite common, but healing magic is rarer. Typically effective healing magic is expensive for the average person, so when they get ill or hurt they go to a local wise woman, plague doctor, ranger who sells herbs, or just grow it themselves. Creatures like unicorns do exist in their world, but not all unicorns are the same. The two main types people know about are bearded unicorns and fey unicorns. Bearded are large, powerful, and territorial animals that are sometimes used as beasts of burden but almost never mounts, as they have poor temperaments. They're best known for their rivalry with chimeras and will impale intruders on their territory against trees using their large, curled horns. Meanwhile fey unicorns are more goat-like and much smaller, but their curled horns do have magical properties, some medicinal. However they're very rare, hard to catch, and killing one can incur the wrath of the fey queen, Titania
@taylorfusher2997 Жыл бұрын
To Tarille: How do the people in Elden ring eat? Also if you are going to have a large population of people in a civilization, you still need crop fields, and agriculture crop fields, and also you need cattle, pigs and other grazing animals to feed that civilization. I don’t understand it. Did I miss something. Remember I am not a expert, I am just guessing. I don’t truly know anything. So it does not matter what I say anyways or what I did.
@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын
@taylorfusher2997 I'm not sure why you're asking this person about Elden Rings when their comment had nothing to do with it, but yes large populations of people need food, though it should be noted that things like grains and vegetables are vastly more important than livestock for food production, and that with the exception of sheep, most livestock historically were just kinda left in a field to fend for themselves for the most part. I'm also not sure why you listed "crop" and "agriculture crop" as separate things, so I'm just going to assume that was an accident. Also, while the distinction is minor in this context, I'd also like to mention that pigs aren't technically grazing animals, as their digestive system isn't designed to get nutrients out of grass. They require a diet more rich in protein and more easily digested, and actually have similar dietary needs to humans; if they're only given grass or hay to eat, they'll die from malnutrition.
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.
@christopherknorr2895 Жыл бұрын
Shad didn't know what Pater Nosters were. Metatron will be entering the chat soon.
@brickgarden Жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff! I love these kinds of videos.
@haroldgodwinson5043 Жыл бұрын
I really like this type of content. Regarding the unicorn horn. I know in some Latin texts the term "unicorn" seems to refer to the species of rhinoceros that has only one horn. By the high middle ages, the academic language was predominantly Latin. Other cultures consider rhinoceros horn to have medicinal properties. Is it possible that the assumption of "unicorn horn" in medicine being "made up" is in fact a misunderstanding due to ambiguity in the texts? The earliest accounts of "unicorns" are from a Greek historian, claiming that unicorns are located in India. Currently, the single horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is known to be native to that region. We know that there was trading of various materials between Europe and India throughout the medieval period.
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
If anyone else was also curious which physician was doing experiments on unicorn stuff (as our friendly neighborhood witch told), all indications I've found point towards Ambroise Paré, who lived in the 16th century, which is renaissance era already, not quite medieval. Paré tested a LOT of fake medicins to weed out good from bad stuff, and he was actually a professional surgeon.