What Was Hygiene Like In The Wild West?

[@WeirdHistory]

What other Hygiene or Wild West Videos would you like to see?

[@MyTownDrunk]

I love your wild west series! I'd like to see one on the treasures found by settlers.

[@BigDippas]

If you can find hygiene in Mesopotamia I'd love to see the vid!

[@CrisTortion]

I would like to hear about strange medicines in the wild West some people mixed together that should have wonder effects like snaks oil. I guess many people died because of poisonous ingredients.

[@BlazinVoorhees]

Thought the 90's started today???

[@freddiemercury5987]

ARTHUR MORGAN

[@Troy-McClure81]

As a child i thought everyone in the wild west was angry in pictures..now i realize it was just Stank Face .

[@peterpanassow7814]

😂😂😂😂

[@duplicateify]

🤣

[@Chief2Moon]

PJ V Or they had no teeth as well

[@michellegriff13]

Hahaha

[@mzilikazimashobane5543]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha

[@booknerdmomma0950]

I'm 40 and my great grandmother had an outhouse. She didn't get indoor plumbing until 2 years before she died (at the age of 93 in 1997). We gathered water from a well, took baths in a wash bucket on the porch. Everyone drank water out of the same ladle. We never worried about getting sick. It was just normal life if you visited her house. She was always worried someone would stop by and be hungry so every day there was a pan of biscuits on her kitchen table. She didn't have much and grew up with nothing so being able to provide hot coffee and biscuits to company was a big deal to her. Ohhhh how I miss this. Life was so much simpler then.

[@oDM0o]

Your grandmother sounded so sweet! I'm so used to indoor plumbing that it would take a while for me to get used to something like that 😂

[@prathameshpatil6888]

She provided hot coffee and biscuit to random strangers passing by? That's so sweet!

[@Humgin1234]

Bless her

[@oDM0o]

@@waynesmith9765 , i looked up peacock texas and it looks so empty, i wasn't aware places like that still existed

[@waynesmith9765]

@@oDM0o School shut down in 1964. I was in 4th grade and we were (still are) bused to Aspermont. There are still about 20 people living there and the church is still active.

[@alfredosalazar526]

Let’s all take a moment to thank modern plumbing and the plumbers who protect the health of our nations!

[@Santiago-hg6hk]

Modern plumbing , antibiotics , toilet paper , toothpaste , sterilization , deodorant , refrigeration , Anastecia I could go on forever. I am truly grateful to be alive now. I wonder what they'll think about us 200 yrs from now.

[@trajanuslarocque7572]

Did you know ancient Rome had running water?

[@Santiago-hg6hk]

@@trajanuslarocque7572 I had always heard that. Its strange to think that a culture that crucified and thru people to the lions also had running water. I'm assuming it was only the very rich that had that luxury but I could be mistaken.

[@trajanuslarocque7572]

@@Santiago-hg6hk yes only nobles had irrigated running water in their homes, it was an engineering marvel. The romans had their aqueducts measured perfectly at perfect angles that the water flowed naturally where they needed it.

[@Santiago-hg6hk]

@@trajanuslarocque7572 Last year I was watching a series called " Secrets Of NY". and there was an episode on the NYC. water system which is based on that very same principal. This sounds stupid even to me but the lack of hygiene is the main reason I wouldn't want to time travel to the past or visit a 3rd world country. Imagine what a horror show oral sex must have been back then. AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Very Scary. 😆😆😆

[@welkinator]

The Outhouse: always a little too close in the summer time and a little too far away in the winter.

[@julienielsen3746]

They could always use a chamber pot and dump it in the outhouse later.

[@rw3423]

@@julienielsen3746 remember reading that's exactly what people did in winter especially bitter cold 😒

[@RandyFelts2121]

My grandad had an outhouse. I believe it was haunted a very scary place for a 6 year old city boy.

[@303Thatoneguy]

Randy Felts imagine all the spirits people released out there assholes in that thing😂😂😂

[@battywattywoo]

I really wish modern water closets would flush everything away, easily, first time; the stress of the risk (will it disappear, or won't it?) has been blighting my life for about 30 years. But at least we don't have to worry about outhouses containing black widow spiders!

[@thegroiddidyourmom-xv1nb]

A video on jails and prison's in the old western day's would be a cool video

[@sheriffroscoebrown9428]

good idea

[@timwodzynski7234]

Definitely

[@tanberetO]

Yes!

[@TheChuckwagonLite]

Do this plz. And bounty hunting

[@krioni86sa]

Why that would be a cool video?

[@Rose0004]

Regarding outhouse "toilet paper," I once read that newspaper was also a popular choice, enough that newspapers would sometimes be sold with a punctured hole at one corner so that you could hang it on a hook inside the outhouse for easy access. This might explain the trend of bringing reading material to the bathroom, haha.

[@16nowhereman]

Yeah, I remember using the Sears Roebuck catalog.

[@ConJonLeprechaun95]

I wiped my ass with that article XD

[@LindaMerchant-pm8vn]

Or leaves

[@Abby-Abby]

The farmers almanac still has that hole in the corner!

[@Cwgrlup]

Sears catalog

[@butterfIyy1]

It's no wonder people often got ill and died early in those days. Disease was so rampant, and the lack of hygiene doesn't help. I'm actually happy I was born in modern times and feel grateful for what I have.

[@JoseVasquez-mg3dq]

I’m sure we’re going to look like savages to people way in the future

[@rw3423]

@@JoseVasquez-mg3dq yeah from Mars or the moon somewhere saying look how they lived . Boy we are so lucky 😄 🤔🤔🤔

[@tristramcoffin926]

The fun part is to realize that even if you found a nice brook to bathe in you are probably washing yourself in the runoff from the couple dozen outhouses in town. Ah, hygiene...

[@JoseVasquez-mg3dq]

R Williams imagine living on earth 💀💀

[@TheSuperhoden]

Actually, people always gotten to about 60 or 70 years once they survived childhood

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

WEIRD HISTORY: What was hygiene like in the wild west? COWBOYS: What's "Hygiene"?

[@AuntieTrichome]

kirby march barcena who is High Gene

[@JeffersonSteelflexx]

I wish I was high on giene

[@fretboy5028]

Cowboy: Hygiene?! Nah. I wears my pants same height as everyones else.

[@rbsmith3365]

How about what’s “ Sanitary “? I see unsanitary anywhere in United States.

[@artistwithouttalent]

"Howdy, Eustace!" "Not now, Gene."

[@ralphsmith8682]

I was a kid back in 1960 and remember going to my cousins who lived on a farm. They had a bath house and an out house. I was always the last one too use the tub. there was a bucket of water on a wood burning stove, corn cobs often replaced wood or coal. You dumped the bucket of warm water in the tub and then went out to fill it at the well, they had a windmill to pump water, you than placed the bucket on the stove for the next person. I always felt dirtier after bathing than before. I often faked bathing and just splashed clean water on my hair.

[@jeanbush8791]

I grew up then too. 50s & 60s. We lived in Arlington VA with all the modern conveniences, but we visited my aunt in PA and she had an outhouse until about 1965. I was always scared of bugs & spiders so I used the chamber pot under the bed. And yes, I had to clean it myself.

[@kaitlynengelland2723]

How didnt you guys get infections from bathing in such bad conditions. For example I get a uti anytime I take a bath because of the soap. So obviously I dont take baths. How didnt you guys get utis or infections from open wounds being cleansed by unsanitary water etcs

[@Sandman42008]

I would have made my cousin come to me..

[@cactusofficial5039]

Man, I was shitting in my cousin's outhouse while the moon was the only light source in 2010. They have been a reality in small towns until recently.

[@garycarpenter2980]

I had a friend of mine that I worked with she told me of a guy that had a bathroom but he always used his outhouse instead

[@LoralCrowned]

3:44 4th gen Oklahoman here. My Great Grandma's home had modern plumbing in 1990's but she still argued with my mom that we didn't need new bath water for each person. I suppose 80 years of habit is hard to change. She lived to 96.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Imagine how stinky their breaths were lol

[@StanislavG.]

They did not eat sugar, so less than you imagine

[@GodofWarChuka]

I would just drink Whiskey everyday back then for pain, etc. whiskey also dissenfects bacteria in the mouth.

[@godmode6263]

@@GodofWarChuka they may not always afford to drink whiskey. Also whiskey can't kill all the bacteria, it will help tho. Also its not about the bacteria, its about the oil, fat and food gunk stuck in their mouth that feed the remaining bacteria that make them multiply in hours. That's why if you got no choice, its fine to just brush if you don't have a mouthwash, compare to just gargling with mouthwash without brushing.

[@rjrahat1971]

Wtf!! You are everywhere!

[@mangot589]

Stanislav G. And they also DID clean their teeth. People seem to think that since they didn’t have modern plastic toothbrushes, then oh well.🙄

[@carjam143]

When I watch movies set back in the early years and they show a love scene...I always get grossed out!! I could only imagine the smell🤢

[@JQUE94]

Especially all that booty breath

[@xziaah6j63kx9]

There is no tampons... nor running water

[@azula9830]

i watched a french movie that set time on like 1800s. They look so dirty and doesnt shower and showed a sex scenes and scenes of prostitutes doing their job. All i imagine is the grossness of each other going inside. yuck

[@debrawise8400]

Jersey Kid: Exactly ! And just when I got reusing bath water over and over out of my head . 🤢

[@debrawise8400]

@@azula9830 Yuck is right !

[@Distractionedm]

It's pretty fascinating how quickly peoples hygiene changed worldwide in less than 200 years

[@greenkoopa]

Amazing what easy access to clean water does for society

[@gjdippaavvhyk]

Stop watching hentai

[@Evan-vj8ns]

Yeah you should jump on the trend and take a shower

[@sugreev2001]

Still hasn’t changed that dramatically in most Poor third-World countries and probably never will.

[@greenkoopa]

@@Evan-vj8ns your mom doesnt mind little buddy

[@galenUptime]

I wonder what they'll be saying about us in 150 years.

[@gabyr.883]

"They have shampoos made of quimical ingredients that caused them illness and have to enter into wather to bath themselves"

[@debrawise8400]

That's a thought ,these days there is no telling.🤭

[@Teewriter]

They will be shocked that water consumption is not completely controlled by the gubmint.

[@Lily-bj2ne]

They’ll be talking about the pandemic for sure.

[@debrawise8400]

@@Lily-bj2ne Most definitely !

[@keithww7450]

Nothing worse than a cowboy movie, when they are all clean and pressed.

[@riverraisin1]

Like in this video.

[@kerrysupporter]

And when they have perfect teeth

[@cookncrook6902]

Towns did have bath houses, where you could pay a fee for a bath.

[@beverlywaits7663]

You know what to say 😂😂😂😂👍🏾👍🏾

[@beverlywaits7663]

@@kerrysupporter Exactly 😂😂😂😂👍🏾👍🏾

[@joshc9676]

Whoever does the narration to these videos has the perfect voice for this. It's calming and clear so no one has to strain to hear. (The rhyme was unintentional, lol)

[@Julie-wr8dj]

Josh C It’s articulate and bright, a lovely way to get the facts right.

[@danniis9444]

He can also be sarcastically funny in those 13 great minutes that cost us no money

[@angelcarlos8041]

*NUMBER 15*

[@wolfeesmom]

it sounds like stephen colbert

[@O.G.556]

Modern day people wouldn’t last a week in this time period.

[@DennisNeijmeijer]

To be fair. Neither would they here. Thank goodness we grow up in the world we will know.

[@pranav-codes]

These wild west folk didn't survive much either, most deaths are probably unrecorded

[@Humgin1234]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@JacksonJDoyel]

Nope I definitely would not

[@KB-ke3fi]

I can.

[@ariannasuen4061]

For those who don’t have time, the hygiene was bad.

[@rw3423]

So true! Many people spent entire day either looking for food and preparing it😒

[@ekdaufin1485]

🤣

[@mikkimooon]

TLDR

[@Crossword131]

Tl;dr...thanks homie. You saved me some time!

[@ariannasuen4061]

@@Crossword131 happy to help

[@MsWhimsy22]

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” which stemmed from how dirty the water was after using it for days! The babies were washed last 😫😫😫 at the point where the water was so murky you couldn’t see the baby in it. Just...🤦🏽‍♀️

[@bryantc1701]

Never knew that phrase came from this

[@Artliker1234]

No wonder babies had poor survivability

[@julienielsen3746]

My God parents had 8 children. On bath night the mother got to wash first. Then the children starting with the youngest. Then dad, who was a plumber, got to be last.

[@seagecko]

The expression comes from the beginning of the industrial revolution in England. When the children bathed last.

[@tristramcoffin926]

The part I don't get is why didn't that at least just boil the water and then let it return to regular temperature. Oh yeah, science...

[@rdgsnyder]

"tuberculosis ran rampant" Me: *thinks of Red Dead Redemption 2* YEAH WE KNOW

[@wescarson6491]

😭😭😭

[@Lovinia1]

Everyone: “Our best friend was taken by it😔... rip Arthur Morgan”

[@ix3755]

JESUS CHRIST

[@sammysweetheart8600]

rip Arthur Morgan my favorite cowboy🤠

[@lewisaino]

Arthur sadly was the prime example.

[@michellegriff13]

My eyes saw the back of my skull and stomach turned when you mentioned bathing in the used water. My daddy used to tell us stories about this cause they grew up on a farm. They had more resources than most of the other family members so this way of life was common and they were grateful for everything they had. Makes me cry because we often don't appreciate all we have now and how easy things have become.

[@Adventure_fuel]

So true

[@katherinegray5086]

I had to follow my brother to bath & he would always say 'ha ha I peed ' .. 🤨

[@flamingalphamonkey]

"They would often curl their hair using-" @5:25 My brain: "bundles of dynamite?"

[@BeckVMH]

Haha yep, same here.

[@andremartinez1136]

XD wish they did use dynamite.... I would of never approach them haha

[@julienielsen3746]

That's what I thought too. Never heard of using pencils though. I thought they used mostly rag curlers. How would you keep pencils rolled up in your hair? I'll have to look that one up.

[@nslouka90]

Not much has changed since then, went from wood because it could be readily found locally, to metal during the industrial revolution and plastic when injection molding became widespread.

[@ekdaufin1485]

Zactly

[@Rose0004]

RDR2 does a good job of accurately showing how horse manure covered the streets of any given town or city, even a nice one like St. Denis. Older spaghetti westerns are much more pristine by comparison. There's even a scene of a St. Denis woman throwing a bucket of "stuff" out of a window which lands on a man's head! If anything, St. Denis made me prefer the countryside in that game, and in general, because even with outhouses, it seems like a nice breeze might help with the smell.

[@kailola827]

God I can't imagine the smell in Saint Denis that must've been awful!

[@nilevalleyafrican9451]

I knew someone would bring up red dead redemption

[@RoGameReview]

Come to eastern europe village and you have all the glorios western times you want 😂

[@SagaciousEagle]

Thank you toilet, soap, shampoo and toothpaste inventors.

[@Lonelysportofboxing]

Deodorant ! Please do not forget deodorant 😂

[@Jimmymilton77]

Toilet paper

[@gratituderanch9406]

Soap is still made this way- you use a fat (animal or food like coconut, avocado, olive...) and lye which came from ashes. Real soap. If it’s sodium laurel/Laureth sulfate it’s a detergent. I am a soap maker ❤️❤️❤️

[@maverickspace374]

Nice try Dr. Squatch

[@bumpet4017]

Sounds familiar after reading and watching Fight Club. 😂❤

[@rondanakamura2655]

Thank you so much for the expertise! Which plant was used by Native Americans, as referenced in the video?

[@greenlamp9219]

can i make nitroglycerin with the rendered fat like in fight club? asking for a friend

[@gummybear41283]

imagine smelling shit every time you went to the outhouse, then you wipe your butt with a corn cob and then you get your teeth pulled out by a cowboy with horse pliers :o(

[@stevethomas760]

In '95 I was working in a GM plant renovation. I saw this personally. A electrician complained to his buddy of a toothache. "I'll pull it for you" . Proceeded to pour some liquor on a pair of pliers to disinfect and it was on. No thanks

[@lablackzed]

Done it my self 2 shoots of whisky set of grip's 1-2-3 out another shoot of whisky job done dentists are for wimp's.

[@velvety2006]

A lot of people probably also died from either the inflammation of the tooth or some illness caused by the open wound afterwards

[@gregorymoore1748]

Thank you Lord for not bringing me to the earth until now 😳🙏🏾

[@nylakunar8571]

Amen🙏🙏

[@gregorymoore1748]

🤣 I didn’t think of it that way but you are so right!

[@gregorymoore1748]

Yes!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Hygiene in History was never good

[@satanswife2546]

One day when people request a vid on the hygiene of 2018-19 it'll still be bad because we ain't got the same world or society standards no more

[@CoushattaL]

Romans were pretty good with hygiene, most times at least.

[@stttonak]

Egyptians were very clean!

[@rw3423]

In old pictures people look clean? If they can clean their clothes than they can clean their body🤔

[@WickedKnightAlbel]

The Jews were cleanly enough to be some of the least-affected groups by the black death

[@Joypyf]

As someone who is borderline OCD about showering and washing my hair, this is horrific lol 😰

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

Bet you wouldn’t be that way back then which make me question if it’s just all in your head and you can easily just get over it if you forced yourself. 🤔

[@Joypyf]

@@PaNDaSNiP3R I can survive a few days if necessary, but not weeks, and definitely not just using solely water

[@jennyrose9454]

I am a spelling nazi...it's borderline. A boarder is a temporary tenant

[@jamaljohnson1948]

OCD didn’t exist back then, my friend, life was way too hard. People with mental illnesses simply didn’t survive very long.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

You wouldn’t be up for wiping your ass with dock leaves then after taking a dump if you were working out in the open? Nothing like building up a certain amount of natural immunity.

[@martycampos3769]

I could not imagine I would make it in the west. I need a toilet, shower, and clean water that are luxuries, however most of us take it these luxuries for granite - me included.

[@angelcarlos8041]

@joseph broker loooll

[@justina249]

Aww cmon its so much fun taking a big smelly shit in the woods when theres no bathroom around.

[@patrickchubey3127]

I thoughtlessly take my countertops for granite, but they've always been there for me. Life's not fair, thank God there's beer.

[@nancymontgomery8897]

GRANTED

[@humanspoder777]

I see what you did there Rick

[@EcoMouseChannel]

Hygiene is what you'd expect in the old west... "Hi Gene" "Clyde..."

[@michaelmaltese939]

The sheriff's are coming the sheriff's are coming oh no the sheriff is a neee-.... what did he say I can't hear a thing he said the sheriff is a near no not near the sheriff is a nee---..blazing saddles reference

[@nallj.j.3480]

STFU

[@nicollevelez8149]

😅 that was funny

[@TermsAndConditionsApply]

Underrated comment right here

[@pduidesign]

It’s amazing how just 40-50 years later we had our relatively modern ways with toothbrushes, clean water, showers, cars, refrigerators, etc.

[@EricxXx49]

Its because people kept inventing. Wanting to get rich.

[@17-MASY]

@@EricxXx49 Partially true

[@JRRob3wn]

I had a couple of great aunts that were born in the 1880’s and died before I was born. They grew up on a remote farm and my mom says they talked about the dust and heat a lot. Apparently their mother would sew their bonnets into their hair when they went out into the fields to work. My mom also said they were obsessively clean as a result of this experience. I have a couple of letters written by their mother to relatives and she sounds like she was absolutely miserable.

[@amyfisher6380]

I wouldn’t last 10 minutes. Marty McFly: “Doc, we gotta go back to 1985!” Doc Brown: “Why? I’m liking it here in 1885.” Marty: “I’m tired of always being spit at and washing my hair with whiskey!”

[@gummybear41283]

hahaha ya, he thought 1885 was nice, he's nuts

[@velvety2006]

@@gummybear41283 well in docs defense he had the knowledge on how to produce clean water and other hygiene products 🤣 i mean if you able to make a time-traveling car, making shampoo or toothpaste wouldn't be to difficult

[@markgregg5817]

Everyone walking around smelling bad, and it was considered normal. It's hard to imagine that now.. I've always wondered how they survived in the winter months.

[@vanfowler]

Probably if everyone smelled bad they didn't notice it. It's like when you and your wife both have garlic the kiss is still sweet.

[@sacrilegioussasquatch]

You get used to it.

[@giantsgirl722]

Beauty and menstrual practices in the Wild West would be cool

[@MrShitthead]

Every true cowboy doesn’t mind getting blood on his barrel during hot action.

[@toocharged]

@@MrShitthead eeww wtf bro

[@toocharged]

Talking bout beauty damn your fine b

[@sfigataa.69]

@@toocharged was that really necessary mate?

[@acajudi100]

Tore up cloths...

[@Vivalarosa45]

I would never survive that era. I would die from being grossed out too much. Or dysentery. One or the other.

[@peterpanassow7814]

Same here! 😵

[@WarpPal]

Consider being born in that Era. You wouldn't know the difference.

[@donmiller2908]

@@WarpPal True, people can pretty much get used to anything.

[@gummybear41283]

imagine wiping your butt with a corn cob and then you get your teeth pulled out by a cowboy with horse pliers :o(

[@gummybear41283]

@Jose Jemenez ya that would rip your ass up.

[@zdf14]

Everyone (myself included) is always interested in history settings such as medieval europe, feudal japan, the wild west, etc. A lot of people say they wish they lived in these times until you watch a video like this and it turns out, it probably wasn't all that great to be in the middle of haha.

[@Delicious_J]

My grandad had to share bathwater with his entire family every week, and what's worse is that he was the youngest, so he was last in the tin bath with everyone's muck. Worse, his dad worked down the mines so the water was probably black by the time he got in. And this was in Lancashire in the 50s!

[@julienielsen3746]

My God parents had 8 children. On bath night the mother got to wash first. Then the children starting with the youngest. Then dad, who was a plumber, got to be last.

[@TheSuperhoden]

My mom too and shes 57 now

[@gilby2ph]

@laser325 I get that reference!

[@gary9346]

Wooooooow

[@krystingrant6292]

Omg 🤢🤢🤢

[@vallamon1477]

I grew up with an outhouse, hand cranked well, baths Sat night in a big tube; until age 13. Poor but didn't know it. But I recall a happy childhood!

[@lewiefrazier1041]

My daddy grew up the same way. Said he didn't know he was poor til he joined the Army....

[@Ronin4614]

They had mighty hearty immune systems back then, and it was tested every day. A person today would last maybe a month or two then die of an infection.

[@chaoticneutral7573]

I dont think so. Since back then families tipically haved from 5 - 8 children. In case of cholera or TB outbreak few who survived could reach adulthood, marry and have they own buch of children. Shit even if not outbreak many kids could not survive from famine, animal attacks or other disasters. So its more about individual quantity

[@davidjones3165]

No antibiotics

[@valley2thebay319]

@@chaoticneutral7573 like in rdr2

[@nikitadondiva]

We would have the advantage of antibiotics; modern soap; and a N95 mask if we didn't want to smell them. No way i'm time travelling without modern hygiene essentials lol

[@christhompson3690]

We would survive just like them. Our immune system would have allowed us to live as well.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I remember back around 1950 my aunt & uncle lived in the country in New Jersey and still had an outhouse. I was only around 4 years old at the time and still remember it. Hearing flies buzzing takes me right back there.

[@Scratchingforcash]

Remember, living to the ripe old age of 35 was “You lived a good long life”

[@justinpennington7682]

Not true at all

[@Scratchingforcash]

@@justinpennington7682

[@markgregg5817]

Kinda sad when you actually think about it. Imagine some 20 year old man courting your 12 year old sister. I'd be so pissed.

[@CJ261986]

Nah, many people who were born in that period, lived to be 80-90 years old. My great grandma was 93 when she died, my wife's great grandma was 98, not to mention all those WW1-WW2 veterans that passed away in their 80's-90's. I'm more worried about our time where cancer and stress "runs rampant", but I guess, in the end, it all comes down to how lucky you are.

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@justinpennington7682 You'd have to go back a lot further but it was true many thousands of years back, but our average life expectancy compared to the wild west days is still quite a lot better now.

[@funguykel]

I think a reality show of what it was like to live in the Old West without any of today's luxuries would be interesting.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

90% of what you describe as being endemic to the 'Wild West' was just the standard hygiene of the time. Cholera, for instance, was epidemic in the cities of the East, as well as in the 'civilised' cities of Europe.

[@bobbygetsbanned6049]

It's one of the reasons the Romans stick out, they had better hygiene than civilizations 1000 years later!

[@shotforshot5983]

London was absolutely horrific

[@FloydofOz]

99% of today’s urban population couldn’t make it through a weekend camping trip

[@chulocam7763]

Right on brother cooper

[@josezapata1878]

You hit the nail on the head 😉🙃

[@stanleycronk4136]

They could if there was enough alcohol involved.

[@noamias4897]

I heavily disagree

[@FloydofOz]

@@noamias4897 ok let’s hear your views.

[@zeus2576]

How much disease do ya'll want? Cowboys : Yes

[@gummybear41283]

imagine smelling shit every time you went to the outhouse, then you wipe your butt with a corn cob and then you get your teeth pulled out by a Cowboy with horse pliers :o(

[@chulocam7763]

@@gummybear41283 lol

[@chriseames9063]

😂😂😂

[@grapeshot]

Yep those out West were funky like an old batch of collard greens. I was in elementary school in the early 80s does anybody remember that early computer game the Oregon Trail?

[@DRACOFURY]

OREGON TRAILS on them Apples computers was a God sent

[@grapeshot]

@@DRACOFURY yeah when you play the game you're more than likely to die of dysentery or your wagon will overturn as you crossing a river.

[@DRACOFURY]

@@grapeshot that dam river crossing... its like pot holes in Detroit.....All you can do is clinch yo cheeks brace yourself....🤣😅😆

[@grapeshot]

@@DRACOFURY yep sort of like when I'm driving in Southern Ohio and I'm going down the road and there's signs that tell me Beware of the Falling Rocks they've seen gigantic boulder right in the middle of the road.😬😬

[@jamesearlcash7725]

Everyone remembers that game, and that snoop dogg line from g thang

[@edoardolorenzetto5776]

My girlfriend after RDR 2: "i want to live in the wild west!" Me:

[@BarattaFamily]

It’s amazing we ‘people’ made it to our current time.

[@chromberries7329]

I'd be afraid to insult people back then, knowing just how much better they were at surviving in nature like humans were intended to than me.

[@Mayor_Mike]

Thanks RDR2. Got me hooked on the wild west.

[@montana5763]

Same

[@CoyoteRecon]

I can’t stop playing red dead 2

[@wishmeluck95]

I read that as R2D2. I was like weird place for a Star Wars reference lol

[@zflynn2]

The first doctor who came up with the idea of washing hands and cleaning examination/operating tables (the same table was used for both) to stop the spread of illness and disease was Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis in the 1850s. His notion of germs and filth enraged all the other ignorant, arrogant doctors so much they claimed he was insane and had him committed to an insane asylum where he was beaten to death upon entry. It wasn't until the discovery of the first microscope decades later was his notion of germs proven to be correct. The only problem was, the discovery came decades too late for Dr. Semmelweis and countless patients who died from filthy conditions.

[@jakeforrest]

In my bathroom I have an antique enamel sign stating: “It is advised to use the shower before attending the steam room” It just shows the increasing awareness in hygienic during times...

[@hunterfisher1294]

The livestock back then smelled better than people did back then.

[@brucemarsico6]

That's why they ate them (livestock).

[@lenledwidge5367]

And still do at times.

[@Lovinia1]

Not to be gross or anything but a lot of men preferred the company of a sheep or horse over a prostitute because of that.

[@brucemarsico6]

@@Lovinia1 Or....the men preferred each other. No guarantee there about not getting a std though. I think that the preferred animal was either a goat or a chicken? Don't think bestiality isn't practiced today (2021). Where I live, some chap was arrested for raping a dog. Poor dog.......

[@Lovinia1]

@@brucemarsico6 👌🏾

[@josegallaga4502]

Interestingly, my grandfathers Mexican Ranch in Guanajuato still has his childhood home made of a mud/clay material and an outdoor potty all surrounded by dirt just like in the old West. Despite modernization in his ranch, most of the locals have yellowed/picked stained teeth; said to be due to the local water.

[@royalirishranger1931]

During my military service as a ranger I lived just like the cowboys , very little washing and cleaning, when you grow used to it you can smell modern soaps and such at a considerable distance . Many poor sod paid dearly for being to clean.

[@ongogablogian2525]

Yeah i heard that if you at enemy territory with people who live in mountains for generations for example, any synthetic smell can be picked up by the wind and will be recognized as alien by people and you can be compromised that way. Even shit like heated up silencer if it is covered in paint can give you away

[@dorian7215]

I had something similar happen to me when I was in the desert. I would be deployed for lengths of time and I felt like I could smell a women in the distance via her fragrance.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

I'd need the entire bottle of whiskey before they pull my teeth

[@bryancastillo8117]

I'd forget about pulling my teeth if I drink an entire bottle

[@Croach61]

Yep! And forget about staying alive.

[@tristramcoffin926]

uh, Doc? Instead of pulling the tooth could you just shoot me in the head?

[@bryancastillo8117]

@@tristramcoffin926 how to avoid a hospital bill in middle America

[@romansroad2007]

Or 2 bottles or 3or 4 bottles of whisky

[@daviddixon6408]

I have a friend who would have fit right in back then. I always told him he was born in the wrong century.

[@tinyGrim1]

Now days that spitting has come back nasty. I see so many spitting anywhere , before going into stores, gas stations, it's disgusting.

[@captainamerica6525]

There are more important things to worry about than a little spit.

[@tinyGrim1]

@@captainamerica6525 a little? When they do it right in front of doors where people walk? And you know what !?.. STFU ! , I know that there are bigger things to worry about, but it is prolific now days, and can spread disease. And I can say something so simple and get attacked for it.... That's something to worry about. Creep.

[@ssjup81]

@Keith Garland Still gross...

[@tinyGrim1]

@@ssjup81 it is! TY. See people doing it all the time, and literally coughing up the thick lung crap and shooting right out on public grounds, as if it's normal. And when there's a garbage can 1 foot away, no ...they just do it right in walkway.

[@tinyGrim1]

If anyone sees my channel, now beware, farting in ones own home IS different. I don't do in public , well.... If I can help it, I don't. And no I'm no prude, but that growling up hacking a lung loogie and shooting it on a walking public place is nasty, go to the curb, carry napkins, use a garage can for fucks sake. LOL..

[@domzi]

There is a lot of nostalgia about „the old days“, where everything was better than today. After watching your videos I can say for sure „there is ni time like now!“ I am so glad we live NOW and not before. Thaaaaaaaanks for your great videos! And I love the voice actor yours!!!!! Greetings from Austria

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Anyone remember "The Oregon Trail" computer game? "Your family member died of dysentery". I Learned quite a few things about the wild west playing that game

[@keithallver2450]

Now you know why dying in your 30s was very common back then.

[@WorldlyBudget]

If you hit 40s during that time you’d be considered a town’s elder

[@adamjenks9613]

I love this series. Hygiene through the ages is somehow fascinating. Maybe I’m weird.

[@chapiit08]

Story goes that a blind man sitting in a porch outside some establishment located in the town's main street, kindly greeted the passing fishmonger with a "good morning ladies" believing they were some saloon ladies walking by.

[@ferdonandebull]

I was raised in the weeds and we had an out house. We never had a problem with flys or odor.. We heated with wood and kept an ash pile. The ash pile was used in the toilet. There was a coal bucket with a shovel and when you were finished you covered everything with ashes. This killed the larva of any fly and tended to keep the flys down. Also the “shit box” end of the toilet was tight and the bottom of the toilet was sealed with dirt from the hole. An exhaust pipe ran from the box through the roof. This was made with one x fours. The toilet had a good seat lid that kept vermin and flys away. We did use catalogues for paper but the white pages of an old phone book was the best.. Moving the toilet was rare.. the waste was somewhat like a septic tank . But when you moved it it was always forward .. We had a hand pump that we used daily for washing and drinking. But the water smelled of sulfur and tasted of iron. We had a rain barrel that the wine used to wash their hair. My grandma made lye soap once a year.. the soap would clean better than anything I have ever used. Grandpa said it would wash off a suntan... I think it would. Out houses are not bad if done right. But no one takes the time to do them right and keep the maintenance up.

[@steamboatwillie8517]

We used to have Friday evenings cutting up newspapers and stringing them up into bundles.....I'd forgotten about that! When we got izal ( similar texture, and about as forgiving as sandpaper) we thought it was luxury.

[@thebigcapitalism9826]

Where did you live? Was this the United States?

[@steamboatwillie8517]

Hi. Cheshire, UK.

[@areiaaphrodite]

I swear to God, every video about hygiene from history makes me so happy that I live in a century with indoor plumbing, air conditioning, soap and shampoo 🙏

[@velvety2006]

in my town we still have sort of 'outhouses 'in the summer, they are free public toilets they place so men don't piss everywhere, as women you still have to find a restroom lol

[@areiaaphrodite]

@@velvety2006 oh dear. What country?

[@velvety2006]

@@areiaaphrodite the netherlands, beach areas have these toilets a lot in the summer.

[@haydc8552]

DAMMIT MICAH, WHAT HAVE I TOLD YA ABOUT NOT CLEANIN’

[@itskinaraaa]

I've just always envisioned the opening credits of "Shrek" whenever I think about hygiene during this time period... 😂

[@josephfrank1472]

HAHA

[@CassidyStarke]

Just bathing in the mud🤣.

[@kassyyar97]

My family comes from generations of cowboys, my grandpa still is, he is tough as stone and always tells me to be grateful for today’s technology, because he had to wipe his ass with corn leaves Aaah the good old days

[@Darvin-Hams-burner-account]

I feel like there is so much info you can give about your family's generation history

[@johngullo9420]

Corn in corn out. 😀

[@kassyyar97]

A Ramírez honestly I have asked, theres some cowboy drama, a pretty long story involving mistresses and guns But besides that, they dont talk much about their past

[@peegirl6952]

Kass WE NEED THE COWBOY DRAMA

[@ariagrace7431]

That’s awesome you had cowboys in your family! How cool to brag about 🤠

[@regisplan3566]

I love his voice its relaxing and very informational

[@NewMessage]

They didn't say 'Howdy, Gene" back then?

[@TheNurulaulia]

This is exactly what I'm waiting for! More wild west content please ❤️!

[@xflip94]

When I start fantasizing about living in any other age, I watch Weird History and I thank God for being born in 1994 in cozy Europe

[@ambienbrain8261]

The phrase, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." came from families bathing in the same water. The head of the household usually bathed first and by the time they got to the baby the water would be extremely dirty and murky.

[@juanitacarrollyoung2979]

Is anyone else watching this thinking about the huge percentage of humanity TODAY dealing with these kinds of conditions? I found the Matt Damon documentary about water especially interesting.

[@toletaarmstrong4779]

And to think that I love watching western. Maybe I should change to sci-fi after all. Lol

[@hugomunoz8019]

Shout out to the Mexican women! Life hacks from WAY back

[@miradfalco251]

Well, a lot of the "how to get by" tricks and techniques have to get passed down from previous generations. In Europe, the rural folks had that, but that chain was often broken when people went to the cities looking for better opportunities. (think enclosure laws, lack of available housing/, intense competition for available land, limited availability of schooling and/or trades that paid a decent living) Once there, they didn't have access to the materials needed to use those nifty little hacks, so the skills didn't get passed along. When folks started heading overseas, many of the people going were a mix of younger sons of more affluent families, and lower income city folk, looking for the opportunity to own their own land. If they'd been in the city for a few generations, they basically needed to relearn how to get by , not just in a rural environment, but a wild-land environment, with limited resources, and limited contact outside of their own family/group. It took several generations to build up a big enough population base to support specialists again, and the more useful ones (blacksmiths, millers, etc) showed up well before things like Chandlers, soap-makers, and the like. The British switch from wood to coal for heat was also a consideration. Wood ash has a wide range of household uses, is fairly dry, and not too difficult to clean up after. Coal ash is just greasy smut that gets everywhere and is difficult to clean off of things. Once in the Americas, wood was generally available for everyone there at the start, but people had to relearn how to use the ash.

[@hognelarsenrhme1703]

December special: What is hygiene like in Weird History's offices

[@bryancastillo8117]

Shhhhh I don't want Weird History to be banned

[@ekdaufin1485]

🤣

[@countessa222]

I live in southern North Dakota I've been to some of the little cabins where homesteaders would live with their families and they would have like 7 kids in a one room cabin seems crazy, how did they get threw Winter! Its pretty crazy to see how people lived back then but super interesting to learn about.

[@GamingNine1Kid]

basically everyone was smelling like a bum, i can't imagine living like that

[@riverraisin1]

I guess it's like people that have pig farms don't smell the stank. You just get used to it.

[@robthefactsmachine9428]

*Fun Fact from Facts Machine* In the 1800’s men would competed with each other to have the best looking and fasted horse just like rich people do in today’s times but instead of a horse it’s a vehicle.

[@BigDippas]

Love you bro, keep making amazing content!

[@luhbot]

Just go to the inn in valentine. There is a bath there for 25 cents.

[@WorldlyBudget]

Reused water from everyone else in town.

[@evirareid1500]

I bathed incessantly in this game. Especially after saint Denis...fucking swamp town

[@luhbot]

@@evirareid1500 haha

[@Stefan-vz4pm]

Me at 1am: you need sleep for university My iPad: what hygiene was like in the Wild West

[@baby1716]

10p.m. at Sarawak,Malaysia.

[@TheFussman20]

11:30 pm at Zadar, Croatia

[@phoebebee4250]

2 am on call for o.r. surgery at hospital.

[@cactusofficial5039]

"For pain management, patients were prone to taking a shot of whisky." Me: one? "Or two." Me: two? "Or maybe three." Me: just three? "Make that four." Me: I can go with four. Love how it was like a conversation as I was watching

[@rensb9214]

I would definitely need more a lot more than 4 shots of whiskey if i were to remove a tooth without anesthesia

[@cactusofficial5039]

@@rensb9214 Yea I guess 4 would give me the courage, not replace like anesthesia

[@nolesy34]

1 tequila 2 tequila 3 tequila FLOOR

[@brookarellastyle260]

These people back then must of had one hell of an immune system 😷😟

[@quanishagoodwin5727]

Ikr 😷🤢

[@davidmreyes77]

In some ways, maybe. But outbreaks still happened and people succumbed anyway.

[@hectorlamar806]

@@davidmreyes77 Yes. But the weakest died. The survivors were the ones with strong immune systems that had built up immunity to whatever disease. Modern humans would die fast in that environment.

[@n1ghtmar3mach1n3]

Yup. They must HAVE.

[@Laura-Yu]

@@hectorlamar806 Ah yes, because we can build our immunity to dysentery and cholera… comment like yours really romanticize the past, you can live like they did if you want (but I know you wouldn’t)

[@adamjenks9613]

So... Mad Dog Tannen was actually that dirty?

[@fidanasimpson5465]

😁 I am watching that now. So the fly sounds around him were true.

[@maddogtannen6984]

No you! Am not dirty.. Ohh and nobody calls me mad dog!! 😡🔫

[@igorivanov299]

He hated manure.

[@stianberg5645]

Outhouses is still a thing, og at least was up until very recently as part of Norwegian chabins. I've been to a few in my early years. It's not that much worse than festival toilets.

[@btetschner]

It's so different than the hygiene practices today. When I was in high school, it was common for athletes to shower three times a day! (Once after morning weightlifting before class, once after gym class, and once after sports practice- Football, wrestling, etc.- after school).

[@BazookaToe]

My oldest sister who is now 68 told me about times visiting our grandparents in Mississippi when she was a child and they still had the outhouse out back with a basket full of dried corncobs in it. Was thinking about this pandemic and the trouble finding tp everywhere we went for weeks, I was beginning to think we might have to look back to this as an alternative.

[@angrysilence1234....]

I got so "scared" at the lack of TP that I bought a bunch of washrags and was seriously ready to put them to use, but luckily, I found some TP before having to use them. Thank goodness!

[@fellyciach]

I'm very grateful that I was born in the modern era. I'm very sensitive to smell, especially body odor. I couldn't stand it, let alone imagine to live when that was a common thing.

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

30 -40 years ago I read the biography of a lady living in assisted living facility, were I worked. She was in her lat 90’s. Putting her birth in the 1870’s. In it she talked a bout her husband and their courting. He had to walk to her house. She know he was close because of the smell. He wore leather cloths. He had only 1 change, which he wore seldom. He only washed his face and hands when coming to see her. About once in 4 to 12 weeks he would bath… clean his cloths. This was dome using something like saddle soap, but!! It did little to make it smell better. He worked with cattle and assisted in tanning skins. Bathing did not include soap, was in rivers or lakes. In the winter no bathing at all. (About 3 baths a yr.) When they married, he did bath more often. She made him a set of clothing so he could change sometimes. Eventually bathing was once a week, with soap, and he had his going to church cloths. He only abandoned his leather when he grow out of them. They were remade, chaps and an apron for him.

[@ginaldeguer]

Why does it sound like Wild West was more filthy than the Medieval times? Ew.

[@TheSuperhoden]

In medieval days people shit in buckets and threw it down the street. Shit produced in castles was flushed through a drain by rainwater in the mot (ew). During not so rainy days people had to do it manually. Just a couple facts about medieval hygiene

[@rancidpitts8243]

In Europe water was, for the most part, easy to aquire as agriculture was a staple occupation, and agriculture requires water. In America west of the Mississippi it was called the Great American Desert for a good reason. In Boston or Philadelphia and any large East Coast city water was always there, something you didn't have to think about; in the west you did have to think about it. Where is the next water? What if the well goes dry? And finally, you will not die without a bath, I think.

[@TheSuperhoden]

@Steven Murphy no, Thats a whole lot more complicated and maybe good for a future video. But in short; we had bigger societies and even in ancient times it was connected to even the far east. We became more resilient over thr course of over a thousand year. Same with milk; white people drunk it a lot for thousands of years, black people less. Nowdays it results in black people being lactose intolerant a lot more than white people. It has nothing to do with 500 years of feudalism

[@havingteawiththedevil]

Really? The Wild West sounded better than Medieval times. Not by a lot but like 1% lol. At least the Wild West had their own outhouses.

[@jryde421]

It wasn't

[@KingDogYT]

It would be cool to hear about the craziest bank Robberys that happened

[@GodofWarChuka]

Bonnie and Clyde would be a big one. John Dillanger also.

[@douglasoverholt1463]

I like how everyone picks at the old west hygiene but nowadays people get their butt holes bleached in late in a tanning bed people are going to laugh at us one day

[@theecancerian]

The corncobs were accurate according to my great-grandma’s stories about her parents and her life.

[@axelsanchez298]

The only thing I think of while watching things like this is Arthur and John from Red Dead

[@greengoblin5488]

And Dutch and micah

[@changes4818]

John always looked greasy as heck not gonna lie…

[@kwargg6261]

"million ways to die in the west" watch this movie you won't regret it.

[@benhatcher2603]

It would be just as interesting to learn what the natives did.

[@goodness_graciousme]

I love all your videos! You make it seem so fun and interesting to learn more on history! Contented subscriber here! 😀

[@gummybear41283]

hi baby :o)