Surviving the Middle Ages as a Teenager...

It’s hard being a teenager. Coping with raging hormones, insecurities, and acne while trying to figure out just who you are and where you fit in society is no joke. It’s not really the best time to try and make important choices about your future. So, just imagine what being a teenager was like without the comfortable, modern amenities that we have today. Let’s face it, in Medieval Europe, you were lucky to have even reached your teens when childhood mortality was so high. Let’s travel back in time now to see what it was like for the youth of the Middle Ages, and why teenagers were given away to strangers and freshers had their teeth forcibly removed.
00:00 Introduction
01:02 You're Never Too Young
02:44 Troubled Teens
04:35 With Puberty Comes Great Responsibility
05:36 Old Before Their Time
06:48 Mis-spent Youth
08:46 Teenage Kicks
🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
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[@alexfilma16]

Was there really such a thing as a teenager in the Middle Ages, though? You were a child and then you were an adult.

[@SuryantoSuryanto-bo3zx]

Good point, In the middle ages boys as young as 12 considered as an adult to society

[@SunnyLovetts]

Yeah it wasn’t a thing lol

[@a.munroe]

There wasn't. There was childhood, minor adults(teen-aged) and adult "in his majority". So I guess there was like a weird limbo..

[@RoomerJ]

Ya, um... started at 13-19........

[@carolleslie2673]

I was just thinking as I read the title you’re a child then an adult no inbetween

[@Bga1412]

Damn, I wonder what the "walk to school" stories were like back then.

[@direfranchement]

Most children didn’t go to school.

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

BRING OUT YER DEAD💀

[@MonaLisaFire]

😂😂

[@winglessfairy564]

@@ronswansonsdog2833😹😹😹 “I’m not dead!”

[@Mxy_Edits]

most kids didn't go to school in fact only boys went to school while woman were just trained to be good wives and to cook and most got married around 14 -17.. or some woman didn't get married and became nuns or men became priests or knights

[@LloydWatson192]

I'm incredibly grateful I was a teenager in the 1990s.

[@SunnyLovetts]

You lucky bastard I was just a baby lol

[@kil-roy]

The 80s would have been cool though

[@alm5992]

@@kil-roy Nah, nothing cool was affordable unless you were rich. Ever looked up electronic or computer prices from that time? Practically a thousand dollar paper weight unless you read a 100 page book on how BASIC coding works. People now think the prices were decent, when with inflation these things took weeks or months to save up for. The 90's practically cut those numbers in half, while also having computers that had decent operating systems. I know it's not all about electronics, but it's a glimpse in to expenses and that not everything was perfect in the now over-glamourized 80's.

[@DemonKingOFFICIAL]

Same. Life was so much better.

[@Lolpy.]

@@SunnyLovetts I was chilling in my dad’s nuts

[@tonycavanagh1929]

when you are a teenager with brutality and poverty, you dont have teenage angst. I cant remember ever having angts. I stressed about food, money, warmth and safety. I am guessing it was the same for teens in the middle ages.

[@john-ic5pz]

...the more things change, the more they stay the same? bcoz, it doesn't matter how high a pyramid gets, the base always is always on bottom, in the dirt. I been real-hungry too, bro. I think your assessment is spot on 💜

[@matthewjohns1758]

Hope your life is better now. Sorry you had to live through that.

[@john-ic5pz]

@@matthewjohns1758 empathy is good I'm not discouraging it but a facet of this that's overlooked today is that suffering sews seeds of wisdom, fwiw . I know that after having experienced Real hunger, I rarely eat a meal without a sense of value & gratitude. life is navigation through a field of contrasts, pleasure loses meaning without discomfort & achievements feel hollow without challenges (because they lose the lesson learned from the obstacles & challenges). ❤️‍🩹

[@tonycavanagh1929]

@@matthewjohns1758 Thanks yes, that was the 60s, I escaped into the Army, And now I have a very very good life.

[@rimantasjanavicius4194]

I had amnesia when I was a kid

[@erikgilson1687]

"it seems teenagers were used as a source of cheap labor" So like modern teenagers then

[@jdjfyfb6534]

Yea but real labor not no McDonald’s

[@notsocrates9529]

lol comparing a stoner job to plowing and tilling fields for 12 hours a day. LMAO

[@erikgilson1687]

@@notsocrates9529 calm down beavis

[@notsocrates9529]

@@erikgilson1687 You did not seem to understand why your statement was dumb and a reductionist attitude that is comparing two different eras and ways of life. Explain to me how a McJob flipping burgers over the summer break is the same thing as plowing fields and pulling weeds by hand roughly nine months out of the year.

[@erikgilson1687]

@@notsocrates9529 you're reading way too much into a joke bud I think you need to take a nap

[@jim2376]

I have mixed memories of my days as a teenager in 13th Century Padua. I played the flute in the church orchestra. I loved doing so. I was going to marry my girlfriend Isolde, but she died of typhus at age 17.

[@Wolfenstein69924]

17 eh? Old age back then

[@vibi-uw4sn]

I live in padua

[@jim2376]

@@vibi-uw4sn 👍

[@imarchello]

you must be a vampire then.

[@janeaustenist]

Being placed in another household was a way to forge alliances and connections. Or to learn home and land management. Knightly skills were always learned in another household.

[@dianawatton7570]

I hate bullying of any kind at any time. Bullying is ignorant & despicable!

[@niazi12121]

Its the middle ages, bullying back then was much more excepted. People back then were much more cruel to each other

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

@@niazi12121 ok

[@claireokonjo4532]

But actually you can't stop it in the medieval times bro or else you will get executed for no reason 💀

[@claireokonjo4532]

But actually you can't stop it in the medieval times bro or else you will get executed for no reason 💀

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Stop being a victim. Fight back. "bUt MuH" your what?

[@MakeMineaDouble]

Can we just take a second here to appreciate that axemanship at 2:22. Wow, somebody take that away from him while he still has a hand.

[@matthewjohns1758]

I kept thinking that too and could hardly pay attention to the narration.

[@thesjkexperience]

I laughed having just gotten home from camping.

[@user-ug2hk3go6i]

Yes, that stood out. Why was he using such a bizarre technique.

[@lk4543]

​@@user-ug2hk3go6iis it really a technique though? Or just desperation?

[@Traderjoe]

So if you kept your kids at home, you would lose money because you had to feed them. But by lending your kids out, you can feed these other kids less food. Wouldn’t a parent realize that if they themselves had gone through this starvation period that they would have known how uncomfortable it was, since it happened to them? And, wouldn’t it simply have been easier to just starve your own kids and not put them through this? I don’t get why this benefited anyone. Unless the kids learned a skill during this time that could then be used once they come back.

[@shakeel0atmeal273]

Joe, I was standing in Wendy's earlier ordering my favorite, the baconator. I sneezed and all of a sudden shit myself and I didn't know what to do. I ran outside 😮

[@doyouhaveawristband]

@@shakeel0atmeal273thank you for your service

[@nativeamericanfeather9948]

​@@shakeel0atmeal273let the adults talk

[@RogueReplicant]

Feeding them less (but still good quality) builds character as the otherwise rotten brats now have to find a way to earn money for their snacks.

[@notsocrates9529]

"I had to go through this, so you will have to as well, it builds character." Society is doomed, we killed God and this is the result.

[@shaunsteele6926]

prior to the 20th century, "teenagers" were usually just considered adults. By the age of 13 or 14, in most cultures you were already working and possibly even marrying and starting a family

[@grapeshot]

Yes very interesting because I've been told that the whole teenage thing is only recent phenomenon in history. Only going back to the Victorian or Edwardian period.

[@rebralhunter6069]

Well yes it is. The idea of being a teenager is a very recent one. In the medieval period you were a child, and then you became an adult. They didn't have the conception of "being a teenager". However physically speaking everyone has a period in their life when they go through puberty and their age is in the teens. Even if there was no concept of it back then.

[@GredelsRage]

Its combined with sociology and psychology both of which were still in their infancy in the first part if the 20th century.

[@wintermatherne2524]

@@rebralhunter6069 It’s a bourgeois construct and since the bourgeois is mainstream, well there you go. They want to infantilism and domesticate everything to the point that now they’re not even motivated to get a drivers license or even move out til they’re 36.

[@knowthycell]

It’s the privilege of Extended adolescence in the prosperous West

[@henrybutler376]

I can't imagine a whole group of soldiers following a 16 year old to battle that is insane.

[@vaclavhrebec]

I do love this channel! Thanks for mentioning some of the primal sources, I would however be at my happiest to see all of the sources and therefore be able to quote them and share with curious friends! All the best! VH

[@dan13ljks0n]

Yep. Child labor - coming back again in the US. Looking forward to having my car repaired by a 12 year old.

[@corvidflight19]

In the next few years it will be a robot.

[@debra1363]

There is already child labor in the US.People will only start screaming when the children of well-off families start doing tech jobs that require no physical labor.Nobody will make a peep over poor kids doing physical labor,just as they don't now.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Resurgent child labor is a result of declining EROI of the energy industry and rising energy costs.

[@artemis2520]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RobinXlone]

child labor is actually a good thing.

[@music_by_carlos]

why the hell is hommie cutting the wood like that lmao just smash it the other side one more time 2:19

[@DangerSocksTheater]

I was so distracted by that, that dudes gona split his hand doing it that way

[@moldbrain660]

Well seems as though whatever bullying and hazing you get as an apprentice now days can never be quite this bad.

[@davespriter]

so many comments are almost exactly the same on this video wtf anyway this video was really interesting thank u for posting

[@WildWinterberry]

Most of the comments are probably ai, just like most of the internet now

[@Tj-km7ps]

Many messages are kind of the same on this broadcast Anyhow I agree, this video was fascinating.. cheers for uploading

[@Krusta1111]

Imagine having to survive in the Middle Ages and your name is Buttholdes 7:05

[@javebjorkman]

I love this channel

[@foo219]

I see bullying... sorry, hazing traditions haven't changed much.

[@kimmcroberts5111]

Thank you !

[@j0nnyism]

Indentured service was a fortunate possibility you learn a useful skill and had greater earning potential. Most people ended up slaving in the fields all their life. Very few went to university. The children of the gentry and second sons of the nobility usual became clergy or entered the law

[@GredelsRage]

There wasn't really a "teenage" period in many older civilazations. With teens only becoming a recognized, distinct stage of growth and development prior to the early 20th century.

[@glddraco666]

that doesn't mean that they weren't teenagers however.

[@wintermatherne2524]

@@glddraco666 It means they were expected to behave like adults and not be infantilized and coddled.

[@mariadonkova2759]

So does that mean that teens are children and stupid or what……

[@GredelsRage]

@mariadonkova2759 teens tend to be stupid due to immaturity but they were kept busy on family farms and a lotvless socializing like modern feens. Marriages were comon @15/16

[@Invisble748]

@@GredelsRage ​​⁠ The same was in ancient Israel. Girls became adults at 12 and rabbis set the marriageable age at 12. Some believe that Mary was 12-13. However there is no proof that Mary and that most Jewish girls in ancient Israel married at 12-13. Heck doing a lot of research written evidence suggest 15-16 was the age most girls married.

[@brandyrose9997]

"BEANus" Had to play that back to make sure I heard it right 😅

[@TribalMatriarch]

Anyone who has tried to teach their child to drive knows they listen to strangers more than parents. Good reason for fostering!

[@Vel_Plays_2.0]

People living in the moment.

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodr3843]

Just living in the moment 9:16

[@beansmalone2982]

My mother ran away before i was even born.

[@cbrackett93]

10:20 There is so much going on here. I need an explanation. What is my mans doing with that executioner's axe? What's going on with the Jester facing of with the Granny Grabber wielding man? I have so many questions!

[@bartobruintjes7056]

People in those days were crazy. Giving children the responsibility of commanding an entire army.

[@matthewjohns1758]

@garyallen8824I’m sorry but a lot of them were. They studied Greek and Roman wars which had no comparison to the wars they actually fought.

[@MH-up1xe]

They were raised completely differently. They had to mature faster to survive.

[@wintermatherne2524]

Kids weren’t dumbed down like glorified pets back then.

[@feldgeist2637]

​@Blake_390 members of noble families usually started their military carriers as adolescents but commanded or at least assisted by older, sharp thinking and battle-proven vets and contrary to popular bs historiography, most people who managed to get older than ca 10 made it far beyond their 40s King Barbarossa went on a crusade in his late 70s (bad decision tho), King Alfonso of Portugal fell from a horse during battle in his 60s (died at the age of 79 - one year older than Barbarossa) and King Edward campaigned in Scotland in his 60s people who didn't totally stressed themselves out in unfamiliar climates, exhausting marches or directly searching death by sword were also often getting kinda old - during a trial in 1461 regarding events that happened decades before, the oldest men of our village were called as witnesses and those were all in their late 70s and 80s

[@eugeniaskelley5194]

Well in a different video he said the average life span for a male was 24 and woman about 33. So, giving power to a teenager doesn't seem off.

[@jqs17fh]

Orphaned before they were born? I don’t think that is how it works…

[@eugeniaskelley5194]

If the mother died while in labor and they cut the baby out and you father was already dead, it is quite possible.

[@BHALT0S]

weak, I left my home the day after I turned 11 years old, and never looked back, and that was in 1986

[@NPC-0013]

I really really love these lil documentaries about life in these times!!! So I have started to slowly buy n collect gold. I started at 1 gram about 3 months ago. Now have 8 grams gold and 1 ounce silver with two lil extra bars one 5gram one 10gram. So one and a half ounces of silver and only 8 grams gold. What would this be worth in these times please? Can I buy a loaf of bread or a house? Maybe a horse? It would be super cool to know please mate

[@RobinXlone]

lol gold just hit a record high. W investment

[@NPC-0013]

@@RobinXlone yes mate 👍

[@RoomerJ]

How times have changed. Now most are not considered an adult until their mid 30s...

[@SunnyLovetts]

Because many boomers sucked at raising their offspring for some strange reason. I think the country has had it so good after WW2 that the people became soft as fuck,

[@ninakore]

Only adults who wish to remain as children.

[@elin_]

In my country you're considered an adult when you're 18.

[@mandem3426]

Yeah , it was wild

[@iwannaseethereceipts]

This sounds nigh identical to public school at this point. They make obedient workers, not independent innovators

[@alm5992]

I wish some of the teenagers I get a the mall could be subjected to some of these treatments. They run around, break stuff, spray fire extinguishers, bang in the back halls, ride the elevators and escalators up and down like their 5! Then when told they have to leave they call you every name in the book. These kids need a kick in the ass.

[@pentagrin4157]

As a ex-teenager, I can't blame them. The world is hostile to teens. There's no place for them to hang out anymore, people treat the great ones like shit, they're "too old" for childish things and adults rag on them 24-7 for ANYTHING. "ACT YOUR AGE" but then they still treat them like children- NOTE, this is for the GOOD teens and not the hooligans you're describing. Basically, its not a shocker when teens turn hooligan or completely socially isolationist. Even now I get mistaken for a teenager (I'm 24 and very babyfaced, I get mistaken for 16 on the regular and I am constantly scrutinized and ID'checked) and people treat me nastily if they see me going about my business, and I don't do shit. All I have to do is *exist* in a public place and older adults take issue with me, because they THINK I'm a teen.

[@knowthycell]

@@pentagrin4157your shoes are soaking wet man, cheer up!

[@stephenbryant5251]

Yay!

[@wololo4761]

9:17 - probably a decent rule to put into most UK universities these days.

[@Godless_Doc]

I see that hazing hasn’t changed much.

[@alexfilma16]

5:20 That’s Joanna of Castile, not Joanna I of Naples.

[@samanthav563]

Ah, so hazing has roots in the Middle Ages. It makes sense now

[@knowthycell]

The people In the comments claiming their childhood compared to this. Gimme a break.

[@bootykingfaia]

what is the song playing in the intro to the video? i feel like i know it.

[@skywishr1313]

well...now we know where all of the social clubs' nonesense comes from.

[@trippylydia7574]

Can you do a video on medieval language (preferably English but others too 😂😂)

[@etiennesharp]

How do you do, fellow kids?

[@arbatel6527]

The guy in the thumbnail is Pico della Mirando, an actual medieval/Renaissance wizard

[@tara_not_tara]

How did they deal with periods back then?

[@lovxrly]

“Orphaned before they were even born” lol

[@monkeymalletsvideos]

what is the provenance of the artwork in these videos?

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I saw that thumbnail, and it taught me that Elon Musk was a teenager in medieval times.

[@jchow5966]

No time to be young.

[@miyllofromearth7143]

Whats the intro music?

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

What if Berserk was written back in the Middle Ages…….

[@comrad_dog7456]

Buttholdus is such an unfortunate name 7:05

[@Lady_Chalk]

"Freshers"? I need to add that to my notebook for my D&D5E and PFRPGE1 characters!

[@addictedtoguitars4948]

Wait...they were orphaned before they were born? How is that possible?

[@grungeisdead_94]

The thumbnail looks like Topher Bus from clone high season 2 lol

[@CorvoFG]

Gen-Z would have lasted 10 minutes.

[@yuumimaisfrancaise]

12, humans nowadays have better natural immunities

[@CuteLilEldritch1010]

So would boomers, gen X, millennials and literally everyone else that was born post-1900’s. You’re not special.

[@hildahilpert5018]

Well University students party back then just like now.I think in Paris the students actually rioted.

[@babyvanillas]

& ur old ass self would've lasted 5 minutes

[@nikocafe8749]

⁠@@CuteLilEldritch1010lmfao fr

[@JamieBarrington]

Let me tell you, living in the Middle Ages as a teen was hard! I wouldn't want to relive it. Kids these days have no idea

[@__prtcl]

omg her shoes on the bed @_@

[@jchow5966]

So sad that most people died so young.

[@MarwenTitouh]

I was teenager in early 2010s

[@rjhayes-dc1ji]

🙋🏾‍♂️Wait, quick question🙋🏾‍♂️…. How do you be orphaned before you are born?

[@amostlynottoxicdude8002]

Why is sam sulek in the thumbnail?

[@klaasvaak8009]

wuuuhuuuu!!!

[@jayyrocc6508]

Lol

[@ThePapawhisky]

“Some were orphaned before they were even born”??

[@estherdimaggio9156]

What a way to learn how old frat culture is lol

[@longdongmc.johnson]

that max moefoe in the thumbnail?

[@daveyvane9431]

Those swinging kids got to do it all the time!

[@pochernyai]

This video should have been called "The history of frat boys"😃

[@klarabarunovic9841]

I'm sorry but how can you be an orphan before you're even born?! In order for you to be born, your alive mother needs to give birth to you...😂

[@jean-luceyesofyoureyes5502]

Mother can die during childbirth

[@klarabarunovic9841]

@@jean-luceyesofyoureyes5502 f*ck

[@madiantin]

This caught my attention too!

[@Missivyfluids]

It made me laugh. I think he just misspoke!

[@Octoberfurst]

@@jean-luceyesofyoureyes5502 Good point!

[@rjd_frostcor3]

Oh those Medieval teens... talk about "ye olde parental units" amirite?

[@rubyhocker3010]

At 2:35 - teenagers being a source of cheap labor after the Black Death is alarmingly relatable to new laws in the USA allowing teens to work for coins after COVID.

[@knowthycell]

Comparing Covid to Black Death is like comparing lia Thomas to Michael Phelps.

[@sunkintree]

@@knowthycell seethe

[@knowthycell]

@@sunkintree cool, it’s gotten 12 likes. Thanks for letting me know dude!

[@sunkintree]

@@knowthycell hey man no problem send more tears anytime! good lad.

[@knowthycell]

@@sunkintree metaphors are for cry babies!

[@jackielovesbread]

What is “O BEANE BEANOR”? 7:42

[@kkupsky6321]

… sometimes when a special hair begins to grow a lot of questions come up and the answer is “she’s a witch!!!!!!”

[@stormykeep9213]

Parents today: "Little Johnny is turning 13. Oh no. I wish we could just send him away..." Medieval Parents: "Little Johnny! You're 13! You should've been out at 12! Out! Out! OUT!!!!" I don't think things were different back then...

[@James-tq8go]

Were people ever praised for their hard work?

[@CountGremlin]

The intro reminds me of Skallagrim's intro 🤔

[@suicidemaus]

Thumbnail looks like gish era billy corgan

[@werroloco3112]

Damn could image being orphaned before birth . Storks we’re real back then I guess

[@kellypbr7742]

The term teenage wasn't coined until around the 1920's, they went from child to you adult before then

[@Paulic64]

Orphaned before you were born…..

[@-JA-]

🤔 Rage against the stockade!

[@Kate-rm9hr]

His name was Buttholdus?

[@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607]

You don’t cut wood like that-just smack the piece of wood against the log a few times & the axe will split it at the top 😂

[@Ulvdronning]

Orphaned before they were even born...

[@headfullofhyenas]

very possible for a father to die before his child is born

[@klarabarunovic9841]

Ikr😂 I think that he was joking though

[@funpheonix9752]

@@headfullofhyenaswell, yeah, but what about the mom? I get that dying in childbirth was crazy common back then, but the moms were probably alive during the birthing process, at least the beginning of it

[@g76agi]

@@funpheonix9752 I think "being born" means fully coming out, and a mother can die before that

[@Michelle-qi5zf]

How could a child be orphaned before they were born?

[@shelliegilbertson9828]

How are you orphaned before you are born?

[@damonmelendez856]

Did they get high back then like our kids today?

[@nicholasleach8770]

Holy shit, is that thumbnail sam sulek?

[@CFinch360]

"Some children were orphaned before even being born" ? LOL how can you lose both parents (the definition of being an orphan) before being born??

[@MadameSomnambule]

Death during childbirth, that’s how

[@turdcalzone7636]

Looks like Maxmofoe

[@waimitai6872]

"What better way to teach these lessons and shape teenagers into men by learning about money, alcohol, being rude to Professors and gossiping about the evils of menstruating women?"💀

[@tardiscommand1812]

Who on earth was chopping wood like that.

[@WhiteLongSword7]

That first clip is so nasty wth sits on their bed with their shoes on Lol also 7:06 it sounded like "Buttholdis"

[@larrywithbraces4744]

"some were oorphaned before they were even born" something ab that statement isn right

[@shaylabailey9771]

"Some were orphaned before they were even born" Explain??

[@KD400_]

I think it means that the parents were already going to give u away or they would not have made it for ur birth. The mother would die after giving birth so the child was orphaned

[@pw4780]

You were raised by wolves after you fell out in a field.

[@shakeel0atmeal273]

The mothers would knock a piece of wood 4 times before screaming into the night on a full moon "CAST THIS BABY TO THE WARLOCKS" and then boom they are orphaned

[@theconqueringram5295]

The Middle Ages must've been Hell for teenagers who had neurodivergent conditions such as autism, dyslexia, ADHD and so on. Still, if I was born in the Middle Ages and survived to be a teenager, I'd like to be apprenticed by a craftsman or artisan, maybe even join a guild.

[@matthewjohns1758]

@garyallen8824I have to agree with you. In one study it was found that the majority of medieval children died by drowning usually in a Pool or the long ditches that surrounded each plot of land and usually in their own land. An autistic or ADHD child would most probably be killed this way basically because children weren’t really watched.

[@pentagrin4157]

@garyallen8824 + Actually, we were still quite common even back then. The more extreme of us were labeled as "changelings" aka fairy babies switched at birth. Most people with conditions actually had it a LOT better back then because there was not a lot of overstimuli to result in stuff like meltdowns. Worst case scenario you were shipped off to a convent/monastery. Natural lighting, rural living, ect, any neurodivergent traits were not exasperated by stress. Sometimes you'd get a "Oh that's Jonathan, he doesn't speak a word but he tends to the sheep very well" Autistic and other neurodivergencies were actually super useful. Given that I've been autistic all my life and lived REALLY rural, you wouldn't have known I'd have it (and low functioning no less) besides from my lack of being verbal, no eye contact and not liking being touched. As soon as we moved to a city, oh yeah, it became EXTREMELY apparent that I had autism because the added stimuli overwhelmed me and stressed me out and exasperbated my condition.

[@wintermatherne2524]

@garyallen8824 You sound like a total ignoramus. Yes it’s over-diagnosed, but the fact the YOU don’t get it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The hubris of some people!

[@yaiscolors]

@@pentagrin4157thank you for your input! I have a high functioning autistic son and I have wondered what happened to children and people like that. Gotta admit, that never looked it up, but reading your reply makes so much sense with whatever history I have read or watched.

[@ACDZ123]

Maybe these conditions didn't exist back then ..there's a lot of evidence that childhood vaccinations have caused a lot of these problems in modern times