Surgeon Reacts To WORST Punishments In History Of Mankind Ep 3

[@surfghost9121]

I worked in a graveyard in my teens. Boss used to say he was never scared because "the dead can't hurt you, it's the maniacs who are still alive you have to worry about".

[@TBButtSmoothy]

Only fear the living.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

"Humans are the REAL monsters." ~Dean Winchester ;o)

[@CChissel]

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 You’re still a human if you’re dead, right?

[@BelgorathTheSorcerer]

That reminds me of a song. "The dead can't hurt you because they already left, but the dead can sure make you hurt yourself. I ain't sitting up with the dead no more, since the dead started sitting up too." - Ray Stevens

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@CChissel Unless the corpse is possessed by some other "entity" after... the last I checked, yeah. ;o)

[@Ryallon]

I’m not sure what’s worse, a short but agonizing death when burned at the stake, or a desperate and slow death due to dehydration, feeling the weakness expand and intensify before something fails

[@theender664]

I'd rather burn quick

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Don't forget, in the Oubliette, there's no point in leaving a torch above you to waste. You're there to be forgotten... alone... in a space roughly the size of an average coffin, in the dark... usually many feet below the floor of the room above somewhere... and probably more alone than you've ever felt in your life... ;o)

[@CChissel]

Depending on how you’re burned, you’ll die from asphyxiation before the fire touches you.

[@Danielle-mg5lf]

Being burnt alive isn’t fast people can last anywhere 3-6 hours in excruciating pain 😢. But in some countries the strangle and kill the victims first.

[@Danielle-mg5lf]

@@gnarthdarkanen7464the touch is so you can read, I hear they have a good library lmao gallows humour

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

These videos get me thinking. One of the biggest (and most commonly committed) no-no's in ancient/medieval society was desertion from an army. I wonder if some of these executions were designed to make getting stabbed on the battlefield look peaceful by comparison.

[@ProfessorPottsy]

Yes I believe a lot of these were originally came up with just for that reason but then later on they just used them for whatever punishment they wanted

[@MaceyLaVoy]

That is really insightful. Something I've never thought about but makes a more reasonable explanation for the ridiculously cruel creativity

[@MrNTR1]

or they were a little sadistic and wanted to tourture their civitizens.

[@nautical-nasa]

I’m not entirely sure how feasible this one would be to cover, but I remember when I first discovered a lot of different torture methods, the one that really stuck with me was Rat torture where they put a bucket of starved rats on someone’s stomach and they eat through… it would be really interesting to hear the in-depth review of this from a medical standpoint. I’m also unsure if it has already been covered by you but another interesting one to possibly cover would be some of the traps from the Saw horror series? According to the directors, many of the traps were tested to see if they were actually possible, even if they’re not super realistic. It really makes me wonder if the survivability of some of them is actually medically possible. I really enjoy this series because it really shows these aspects of the body you don’t think about until they’re exposed to situations such as these. Great work Doc :)

[@aedes947]

The military during the dictatorship here in Brazil used a similar method with rodents, but instead it involved in orificies, sometimes with a tube to help them.

[@nautical-nasa]

@@aedes947 Yeah it had multiple ways of being used that would impact the person differently. The way you mentioned, being put on the head, being put on the stomach, and in some cases there was heat put around the bucket to encourage the rats to burrow in faster to escape it. I think it’s creepier than a lot of the other torture methods because it uses the desperation and behavior of live animals to satisfy the sick satisfaction of subjecting humans to pain. I mostly just wonder how much of that they had to endure until they finally died.

[@1014p]

You forgot heat was applied to coerse the rats to do that. It was from I read needed more often then not. Personally nearly all of the methods of the past were unnecarisly barbaric. Often done to innocents who had nothing to say. Many times done by proximity just to see if said person was an issue or not.

[@Manuelslayor]

I was never sure about the rat torture from what I know about anatomy it was mostly psychological torture. Organs don't feel pain, so there should not be that much pain once they burrow through the flesh. I also imagine them scraching and biting through the flesh to be painful but not as agonizingly painful as many other things they could have done to you due to the sharpness of the teeth and claws. Honestly, to me, this form of torture always seemed like a mild annoyance compared to the others if there was not the psychological aspect. Anyways corect me if I'm wrong.

[@aedes947]

@@nautical-nasa Actually, they introduced the rats on the orificies of the victims, sometimes with the help of said tubes. I think it's even worse this way

[@NATEDOG]

I remember reading a story about a serial killer who supposedly killed 900 people and kept a woman prisoner for years and got her pregnant multiple times. He was subjected to the wheel for 9 days

[@nextcaesargaming5469]

Something to be remembered here is just how vile many of the recipients of these punishments were. Sure, there's plenty of political prisoners or religious dissidents who were subjected to this brutality, but it was also monstrous people as well, men and women who were already going to Hell for their evil but where sentenced to Hell-like punishment on our side of eternity. I refuse to wish death on someone, because that is messed up. I will also not feel much sympathy for a medieval criminal thrown into an Oubliette if they are similar in crimes to John Wayne Gacy or Albert Fish.

[@saschamayer4050]

​@@nextcaesargaming5469 Not always, I'm afraid. Ever heard about the inquisition? And witch hunt? In the city I live in, the middle ages were inhumane. There are court protocols that proof it. One guy was sentenced to death for stealing food. So was his whole family. Not because they stole something, but because they were his relatives. They even killed his 8 yo boy. And the father only stole food to feed his starving family. Humans are the worst. There is rarely a day I'm not ashamed about belonging to the human race.

[@anut8733]

Now that's what I call The Proper Iron Throne

[@malikussi6326]

Sheeeiiit the Denzel cut at 8:30 cracked me. I love that the doc keeps it light hearted, but sometimes you forget he's around death and pain every day. Then you see how he jokes💀💀

[@jimreilly917]

I was an EMT when younger. You see so much suffering and death it’s hard not to give in to gallows humor. It may be necessary not to burn out.

[@fraxizztv6433]

The last thing you want is a highly emotional and empathetic surgeon

[@jacobanderson8219]

"Chop my head off." "Not me, I'd rather be burnt at the stake." "Why?" "Hot steak's better than a cold chop!"

[@thompson9400]

Well said Curly

[@thompson9400]

Well said curly

[@42moosejaw89]

Always look forward to your videos, never cease to learn something

[@eranshachar9954]

I am amazed by the sadistic minds of bad people there is simply no limit. There are two methods I would love if you will discuss in future episode. 1 is for torture and 1 is sometimes for torture sometimes for execution. Method 1 is the famous scourge the Roman version of it. Method 2 is much less violent in nature but nonetheless interesting- Chechen burial. In Chechen burial the victim is buried alive deep within the ground. If he survives long enough without oxygen and able to escape his life are spared, but you understand of course mostly didn't survive such a fate.

[@wezweasel]

You forget, these were punishments carried out by people who thought they were "good", in the name of punishment for breaking "law" or being on the wrong side of those in power.

[@fallinginthed33p]

It reminds me of punishment for witches in the 17th century. If you died, you were probably innocent. If you survived, you were guilty and were executed later. There's no way out alive.

[@eranshachar9954]

@@wezweasel You are absolutely correct. I mean we today can see the horror for what it is but back then it was a social norm.

[@ModelsExInferis]

Humans have never stopped torturing, it's just that now they torture every other species on the planet. They just can't help themselves. Nice to see Medieval Madness be used here; so few British channels get recognition outside of the UK and Europe, so this'll be a nice boost to their subscriber base!

[@gaymer42069]

Syrian political prisons.

[@Hexcaliblur83]

I am continually stunned and befuddled at the seemingly endless creative ways we humans have thought up and developed to inflict pain and suffering on each other..

[@erikmckoul2478]

Most of them wouldn't really be too hard to come up with. I am just glad they didn't have modern medical knowledge back then.

[@samiraperi467]

"Pain would ensue" Well that's definitely one way to put it.

[@FloodExterminator]

The "Pear of Anguish" would be an interesting one.

[@alannamcneill5679]

This one time I tripped and as I was falling I put my arms out. When I landed on my hands and knees I felt this sharp pain in my elbow. The pain was brutal; in fact, it hurt so bad that I got nauseous and dizzy which is why I decided to sit down. And when I sat down my vision went black but I didn't lose consciousness. I had two stress fractures in my left elbow. The fracture left scar tissue which sometimes hurts almost as bad as the day I broke it. I'll take a chipped ankle over a stress fracture any day.

[@MCsavage02]

I got a stress fracture from being a dumbass and punching a tree too hard almost the exact same thing happened to me

[@mysterygamermgclues8864]

@@MCsavage02 I'm sorry in advance for what I'm going to say but i thought of Steve from Minecraft after reading this

[@SertalisMusic1993]

I would like to see you cover the Blood Eagle ritual that was used by the Vikings! This form of execution is absolutely brutal! What happens is the victim’s back is sliced open and the ribs are forcefully detached from the spine to form a pair of bony wings. They then pull the Victim’s lungs out covering the “wings” in the victims blood.

[@lindatullos9430]

It's amazing what people could think up to torture and kill other people without the internet to guide them is amazingly sick.

[@tonyhull9427]

I’ve heard that the Chinese torture chair wasn’t actually used on anyone, but had some ritualistic role instead.

[@Lunkanize]

As I have understood it the european one was invented far later than claimed, and never really used, as a way to expand on stories about the dark ages. Make some money from showing them of or just for ornera of castles to have some frightening stuff to show of to guests at social events.

[@romemedina4712]

Would be interesting to see why the more mental torture methods still had major physical impacts.

[@robertvanderhoof5283]

Thanks Doc! Now my nightmares are gonna be worse.

[@cdcaterham]

You really need to discuss the Comfy Chair as used so effectively by the Spanish Inquisition.

[@knucklescapricorn31]

Great video! Could you do scaphism next? It is by far one of the most creatively cruel torture/execution methods I have heard of.

[@AuntyStan]

Oh im curious, whats that about

[@Miroslava_Ivanova]

I was just thinking the same thing, at first it doesn't sound so bad, but the more time passes the worse and worse it gets 😬

[@winonarose7488]

@@AuntyStan it’s where they tie someone up on a small boat/kanoe, feed them honey and milk until they’re full, and then rub the milk and honey all over their body. Then, they send the person out into the sea. The milk and honey attracts bugs, and it also causes the person to have violent diarrhea. They’re then left out there to be eaten alive by whatever animals are there. Sometimes if the person survives too long, they’ll take them back and repeat the honey-milk routine.

[@AuntyStan]

@@winonarose7488 damn savage

[@a15thcenturysuitofgothicarmor]

Reminder the breaking was typically only ever used on the people who commit the worst of crimes.

[@Kualinar]

Here, «the worst of crimes» can be extremely subjective. The worst of crimes could be nothing more than making fun or showing disrespect to a member of the local clergy or some stuck up member of the small nobility...

[@georgesparks7833]

Thanks for all your material and time.

[@vulpoiul7538]

You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Okay... Pretty great breakdown from the medical approach... AND... I would like to see you discuss the details and differences between the old school Roman Scourge and the newer Cat o' Nine Tails, long as we're into the whole torture devices thing... Obviously with those, somewhere, there should be a reasonable short mention of the whip, in general, as they were both related to it... It's JUST worth a mention that in Auschwitz there was a torture building "The Block" that had a somewhat modern take on the Oubliette. In the Block, however, they were a series of cells, hastily constructed with barely room to slouch inside, almost no view out, and prisoners were locked in for days at a time (of course). It's not quite the extent of hellish that the old-school Oubliettes were known for, but once locked inside, there was no sitting to squatting, no rest without letting the rock dig at your skin... and that was that... until they let you back out again, IF they let you back out. ;o)

[@hellemarc4767]

Back then, getting arrested, whether guilty or not, was basically a death sentence. Torture was systematic, those who would have survived it without getting sentenced to death later (what would happen anyway since most would confess for the torture to stop) would have been terribly crippled for the remainder of their lives and left unable to work.

[@aniyahisrael2003]

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[@gazs7237]

The skull crusher in the tower of London always plagued my nightmares... Exploding teeth 🤯

[@erikmckoul2478]

I am more scared of the one called scaphism where you get eaten alive by bugs.

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

Planting bamboo shoots under prisoners and letting them grow was always up in the top of my impressively over the top methods, and there are many variants, including planting them under fingernails, under the body, in the knee cap, under the eyelid, in the ear…

[@fiction402]

Never heard of that one, thats diabolical

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

@@fiction402 yeah, and they grow so fast that they will punch through, bamboo sprouts can crack stone no problem, and send out intrusive barbed roots into any moist, nutrient rich, dark material they find, while snaking through and grabbing onto/into any climbing supports they find… kinda like human flesh and human bone…

[@meganboyer5782]

Couldn't help but chuckle at the bit about syncope. I come from a family of fainter and have low blood pressure. My nervous system's idea of "extreme conditions" includes, but is not limited to someone I didn't know was there said "hi" and I did not realize the shirt I picked up had tissue paper under it.

[@paulis7319]

Watching this video made my arthritis hurt much less. Those are some knarly torture methods!

[@maxmusterman6030]

Im from germany and in 10th grade we had a trip to the Rothenburg crime museum, which is in fact a torture museum. The building was used for all the grim middle ages "investigation" stuff with the real devices and location used back then. Quite unpleasant, especially if you know all things they show you are legit and where used not so long ago.

[@Whitman4]

i just stumbled across this channel . but holy heck am i hooked =] keep it up these are fun

[@ChrisRaynorMD]

Welcome aboard!

[@Zorplex.Gaming]

Infographics Show is so addictive

[@captainnutzlos3816]

The chair looks comfortable 😄

[@jackmcslay]

If we're talking torture, it would be interesting to talk about the torture inflicted on Griffith from the anime Berserk, the red eclipse sacrifice would be an interesting subject too

[@punnygod6287]

That'd be awesome

[@adamosborne3765]

True

[@Sade3000]

That would be nice

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

That thumbnail is something you would see in a saw trap

[@vampyresimmortalkiss]

Visit the museum of torture in San Diego CA. Very interesting to see some of these devices in real life.

[@colinmiddleton8127]

In Medieval England heretics were burned at the stake (as was St Joan d'Arc). Could we hear about what happens to the victim during such a process (if we haven't already). Similarly the effects of long and short drop hangings would make interesting lessons on anatomy.

[@Trebor74]

Joan of arc is a myth. There's absolutely no mention of her in any British writings of the time. The mentions in french contemporary writings are full of errors,including calling her french. Alsace-Lorraine at that time was an independent duchy and was not part of France. It did not become part of France till the 18th century

[@colinmiddleton8127]

You'll forgive me if I don't believe you. There are contemporary pictures of her. As for the British documents, you probably need to look for English ones as Britain also wasn't a state at that time.

[@eedwardgrey2]

There's the infamous scaphism where somebody basically was forced in a container of their own sh*t for several days until they died of septic shock.

[@shilohmjh7628]

Humans can really be so vile to one another and the lengths to which a warped imagination can run is astonishing

[@Bateau_Bautista]

1:26 Why is it always we germans wo make the blueprints. Yes this language is old german. At the top stands: "Precise print of the wheelbreakmachine, which was used for execution." Below that is a very detailed instruction how to use it. Not gonna translate that part, except the Doc himself asks for it It^^

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

Fascinating how the random permutations of the Internet took me to this webpage, as I was just watching a magnificent video of Led Zeppelin performing "Stairway to Heaven". Oh, 1973, at Madison Square Garden, of course. 🎸

[@DEVILISHLY_DELICIOUS]

Please breakdown the "medical" experiments performed at Unit 731.

[@mustangnawt1]

This is painful to even hear. Would either drop dead as soon as I saw what they had in store, or ask another prisoner to take me out of my misery. How are humans so very mean & sick in the head

[@Vlagstaf]

The wheel torture was displayed gruesomely is the fantastic manga « Berserk », where a very beefy guy was using a big one as a bludgeon and breaks all bones from arms and legs, to fit the body on the wheel. It was used by fanatical minions of a priest with a twisted, extreme sense of worship of God. For a torture, i was thinking on the infamous chinese torture of the drop of water on the forehead. While not bloody, so kind of a bore to a surgeon, i am pretty curious about the psychological impact of this, if you have any insight on this torture.

[@kristofferhellstrom]

You're awesome Chris. You're telling these horrific tales in a great and horrying way :P Dr. Chris pain!

[@chaselarson4224]

The labyrinth movie did it the best

[@markabner4046]

Up coming torture video maybe, the rack, Iron maiden, the expanding pear

[@MadmanJnr]

Wow i never expected to see a clip from Alec Steele on here 👍

[@wayneigoe6722]

You should cover the various... "devices" of the Saw franchise!

[@christophercook4819]

I think it’d be interesting to see you look more into Egyptian/middle eastern and Asian torture devices

[@dtxspeaks268]

Ancient Egypt was Africa, not the Middle East

[@sabotagethefool]

Disappointed you didn’t use a clip from the movie Labyrinth for the oubliette, it’s where I learned the word lol.

[@exxor9108]

I watched this video... and felt nothing but pain throughout my entire body. >.

[@The_Zilli]

never forget it was the rich and powerful that created these creative means of dispossing of their enemies...

[@CChissel]

Has he ever played surgeon simulator? If so, where is the video? If not, I will pay money to watch that, as I’m sure several others would as well.

[@AkiraTheSlytherin]

the labyrinth with david bowie told us 80s and 90s kids what an oubliette is its basically a place too book people to forget about them

[@TheRealArtimusKnight]

I love how infographics is a frequent

[@gaynorberry5759]

Humans are so cruel with their torture devices!! The mind boggles!

[@OGdirty1Kanobi]

The boats torture method has to be the worst I've ever heard of, being left to rot and be eaten by insects while being kept alive with milk and honey....I'd like to see you cover that one

[@XianMMD]

Torture of prisoners. That case when baby shark was played on loop. It wasn't physical but mental torture.

[@lilz]

Subscribed seconds in! About to start a binge watch of your channel with this video!

[@xtieburn]

Does anyone get the impression from the first one that some executioner was just kind of workshopping stuff. Like, they were sure that a wheel would be a cool torture device, but werent really sure how so... errr... could hit someone with it?

[@tarn1135]

It’s always amazing to me the way we humans can invent new and horrifying ways to torture and kill each other.

[@smelkus]

You should do a video that covers scaphism

[@DoctorMangler]

I've heard of head tarring, where a cap of hot tar was applied to the scalp, and I've heard it would cause the hair to grow in masses under the skin. I'm not sure if it's related to tarring and feathering. I've also heard of tarred and feather, and run out of town on a rail.

[@Tesseract95]

Noting better than the old IRON MAIDEN

[@Dave.A.Hill.]

I suggest sawing or blood eagles. Possibly both.

[@Blue-cq2hl]

The spinning whack a mole is a literal human pinata but without the fun and all of the trauma. This stuff just completely shows how people will turn anything into an instrument of destruction if they want to. Even more disturbing than these things themselves for me is the cheerful narration.

[@bungeetoons]

The spinning whack a mole is just the crueler of 2 wheel based executions i know of. In another case, a human was strapped to the outer part of a cylindrical wheel and then the wheel was pushed down a steep hill. It wouldn't take long as the victim was repeatedly smacked into the ground before suffering fatal g force impacts.

[@alexanderabramov2719]

Ah, I see the Warhammer 40k series continues

[@szariq7338]

Doctor, can you share with us, what is this website/app, that we can see in the minute 2:10? It may help me out as I'm a med student when studying anatomy.

[@deathsoulger1]

So, you shatter someone's bones to "Dust" on the wheel and then drop then into the oubliette. Make sure the oubliette is dry and keep them down there for years. Obviously feeding them food and water. Eventually free them when the bones have been set disfigured and they are unable to leave.

[@oubliette862]

flaying is rather awful. Strappado was bad. hanged, drawn and quartered was kinda awful. the scavenger's daughter is a good one, and the pear of anguish can't forget that little gem. the Viking blood eagle was an interesting one. I believe there was 3 methods to burn people. being boiled in oil would be painful.

[@Kualinar]

To make the humiliation worst, the victims where often stripped. When condemn to the wheel, one's only hope is to get into cardiac arrest before mid process. The sooner the better. I knew about the oubliette... But it's even worst than I imagined. As for those «chairs»... Yikes !!! ALL of those belong in the deepest pits of hell, NOT the real world. Those a cruel even against demons and devils.

[@mysticwolf2842]

The iron madden looks absolutely horrible, try taking that one on.

[@Dusty141]

Keelhauling is the worst way to be punished by far

[@jbj2316]

You should do the Blood Eagle

[@ramimbintybindu9840]

Here we go again...

[@themightymutt5213]

The wheel somehow coming off once you've been threaded through it..."Well, the majority of your bones are broken and you're severely dehydrated, but you're free to go!" - To what end? What kind of life could you expect to have with the seriously limited medical care in those days? Like the man said, humanity's ability and creativity to destroy one another just blows my mind 😪

[@DrDeuteron]

We was really F'd up!!!!!

[@vanillathunder3024]

I don’t know, man…I think I’d take the wheel over the Oubliette. Physical pain is one thing but mental anguish is a whole other animal

[@erickbenjaminperez3131]

Discuss Viking Flailing...

[@SpennisTheMenace]

What software are you using for the 3D models of the body? That looks super handy. :)

[@kodemon666]

I wonder if we can make tech priests (warhammer 40k), tenno (warframe), and or the crisis suit from well crisis

[@norse_cat]

Wasn’t the oubliette in the Labyrinth movie with David Bowie? lol

[@jackdorsey4850]

1 thing about the ovulate is some were hooked up so the person could smell food cooking.

[@tormentorxl2732]

The only people that I see for fit for these devices, are the people that invented them.

[@yy-hj4br]

Take a seat, young Skywalker.

[@chillmonkey6782]

My patron Saint George the Great Martyr was tied to a wheel and spun over spear points. If you believe in miracles, the story gets weirder. He just wouldn't die, no matter how long they did it for, and his body was unharmed despite blood being shed. They ended up cutting his head off, but not before many who witnessed it converted on the spot and were martyred with him.

[@federicozambelli2045]

Another good lesson in the bag.

[@livsstilen]

brutal😳

[@KoshTimeStepper]

Boiling in Oil...yeah, it wasn't used to extract information but hell did it torture the souls who were sent to be boiled. (the Japanese father and his baby really hit the most).

[@trs8947]

Bamboo growing trough a body

[@rokker38]

Amputation of fingers and toes increasing to amputation of hands and feet then... Also scalping; what kind of result did this bring?

[@panzerdash]

Ideas for politicians list updated🤣 (In minecraft of course)

[@eugenekrabs69]

Could you please go over how stage 4 colon cancer is going to kill me in 20-30 months.

[@skessisalive]

I’ll give this a 👍 just because I watch the whole thing but man I barely made it to the end.. idk how you make these videos lol

[@ChrisRaynorMD]

🙏🏿 I will make your stomach strong like bull! 🤣

[@KamikazeNinja75]

Never did you add the Streetfighter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@booklover4078]

but wouldn't those chairs be less effective because there is so many points and the blades would only be really effective if you moved around and ended up slicing yourself