Removing the Arrow from Henry V's Face

[@Luschan]

I imagine the procedure also included suffering to the point of delirium, drenched with sweat and and screaming in profound agony. Fascinating that the surgeon effectively prevented infection by pouring honey into the wound pre-op, and flushing it out with wine post-op. Without knowledge of bacteria, this medical technique must have been discovered at some point through blind experimentation.

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

Those bees and their honey! Pain-killers; they'd have used opium, no? I think if you're still living with an arrow in your face, you'd been on a painkiller! ... and they'd have doubled them for the extraction of the head. I wince just at the thought of it.

[@logantallmadge8103]

Fascinating! Nice video, I wonder why elder pith and linen is used.

[@ZAV1944]

They say it was the scar from the wound is why contemporary portraits of Henry V were always from the left side.

[@Kasiopea_a_Andromeda]

👏👏👏 I didn’t know they called future Henry V “prince Hal” 👌

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

This is the guy Shakespeare made a film about! 🙂 Will painted him as a lads lad going to France with his 'buddys' and an army!

[@ellenlittle6551]

Wonderful tool!

[@alancumming6407]

This was a fascinating vlog.

[@onceuponadime978]

Can u imagine waiting with an arrow in ur face for them to invent the tool to pull it out? In a time with no anestetic or painkiller?

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

When you look at that tool, I"d be pressed to make that with modern tools. He must have used files and a host of blacksmithing techniques (they were making armoured suits so they did work with iron/steel)

[@kevinmccooey6291]

I love hearing things like this..actual intelligence..instead of some farmer who seconds as a surgeon who's remedy is pouring horse urine over the wound and a prescription of preying over it for 7 days..

[@sandragrundy1516]

Ouch!!!!

[@medievalwolfgrrl]

Ingenious!

[@ChalkiePerfect]

I sure hope it never happens to me.