Got to remember that one for cleaning the silverware-sand, vinegar, and a squirt of urine! “Tea time, laddies!”

Yes, leeches are still used in medicine today, both after reattaching amputated body parts with microsurgery, and after plastic surgery repairs. We have nothing else that works as well. They aren't used to draw blood INTO the reattached finger; the surgeon has no trouble sewing severed arteries back together to supply blood to the finger (or hand/foot/arm/whatever). But even the best surgeon can't reconnect the microscopic capillary network that transmits the arterial circulation back to the venous circulation. Capillaries take the blood that has given up its oxygen and nutrients to the tissue cells, and transfer it to the veins which carry it back to the heart and lungs to be refreshed. So you can get the fresh blood into the reattached body part, but you can't get the "used" blood back out. Not until the capillary network heals. You can see the problem. The leeches are used to suck out that "old" blood so there can be a constant supply of fresh blood to keep the cells alive and healing can occur. Leeches can literally keep you from losing a hand or foot. It may sound unpleasant, but I'd rather put up with leeches than lose a body part. And no, they don't hurt and they don't damage the healing tissue.

Poor Tony...the stuff he puts himself through for our viewing pleasure

The wretching at the end was totally worth it!

Thanks for roughing out the tiz segment Tony. Your dedication to not only telling the job, but actually portraying them is well worth the admiration. The other stuff actually didn't hit me too much. But the pee, that hit a little close

Just LOVE Sir Tony! Have to watch all these now! Pop in on the new Time Team please...

misleading title ! should've been : " Tony Robinson walking in piss after being almost crushed by a medieval crane, having eaten worm stew and rubbing himself with a freshly decapitated eel" .the one and only.....

shoutout to tony omfg he COMMITTED to EVERYTHING

OH MY GOSH THEY ACTUALLY BAREFOOTED IT!! Man that is commitment! I worked in urology I know how horrid that could be 🤢🤮

I think the poor eel got the worst of it… poor guy. Couldn’t at least give the guy a sharp knife?

Ever wonder why there were no Medieval gyms? Didn’t need any. Think of the great shape you’d get in by employment as a treadmill worker!

The barber surgeon acts like he still does procedures. I think he does. He has all his tools maintained still and knows exactly how to use them.

I really enjoyed this. thanks, and cheers from San Diego

Great show! Love Tony.

Super interesting and hilarious video!

In my punk rock days with The Feederz band we had a handbill we posted: the grisly search for bodies continues (and we had a portion of the help wanted of the newspaper on it.

Great episode really enjoyed it.

Actually, military medicine was very good for the times. Many military grave sites show horrific wounds that healed long before death. Everybody else had to deal with the medieval medicine shown here.

I can't believe he tasted that wicked worm soup. "Tastes like chicken, but its snot"!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am laughing so hard every single time he gags! 😂

I think a few more ad breaks wouldn't go amiss.

love this host

I love Tony so much! He's simply the best :D I really enjoy his videos! They are simply the best :) Sadly, tho, his voice is so hard to hear in this video. It's too quiet and distant, having slight echo in it (at least in the beginning. Couldn't watch more than 3 minutes because I didn't hear him almost at all). His voice also drowns under the music which is too loud. If his voice would be clearer and stronger while music not being too loud, this would had been perfect!

I literally gagged during the worm soup 😂

Wyrmes could have very possibly been a reference to snakes.

Tony and Johnny Knoxville should do an episode together. My two favorite masochists.

Plantain helps nettle sting. Not more nettle.

when I was a nursing student in albuq nm at pres hsp in '71..i was assigned a pt, and the dr came in with leeches to use on the patient's arm.

18:02 This eel died for your warty sins.

23:10 Same. 😂

I will live with the netle sting. Forget the worm stew!

17:11 "But if you couldn't afford a colonic irrigation from a barber-surgeon, then for your day-to-day ailments you'd probably visit the Wise Woman." The Wise Woman? The Wise Woman?? Two things, my lord, must ye know about The Wise Woman. First...she is...a WOMAN! And next...she iiiis..."

Hi Baldric, I mean Tony.

All I can say is, "Better you than me, sir."

If you get a big black eye and the swelling becomes unbearable. a hungry leech will provide swift comfort in a matter of minutes. Medical techniques have greatly improved in the last few centuries.😊

Generations to build a cathedral but only 20 years to build the pyramids and without the wheel at that!

Quick lime sounds like the ancestor of pop rocks candy!!!!!!!🍫 😂😢😮😅😊

Back then it was cutting edge technology. They sucked it up.

Really didn’t need the sound effects while Tony was talking about the barber surgeon!!!!!!!!

where the saying " piss poor" comes from.

I hope heat stroke was respected back then for knights. I imagine it taking a lot of lives.

I like the 21st century.

The knight at the beginning saying his assistant had to carve his meat was so random... im pretty sure he means his pee pee meat...

How is urine such an amazing chemical and such a predictor of disease 🤣 alchemy is fascinating

What kinda giant worms are those?? If it were my own urine, and I drank loads of water, I might be able to handle the wool walking 😆

I started eating my dinner just before the wise woman segment. 🤢🤢🤢

Leeches are STILL used by some Dr.'s, Today, like plastic surgeons ....to draw blood into an area operated on to improve circulation or get circulation To the area... and lessen the possibility of the newly (attached) or reattached area dying

No way Jose .

He killed an eel for the show. How could he!

I have a cunning plan.

Leeches and / or bloodletting, treatment for all disease, also called, iron reduction therapy. "German physicians report leech treatment relieves the excruciating knee pain of arthritis more effectively than conventional drug therapy."

Wait a second this is the guy who played BALDRICK?

i could almost smell that urine through the screen as they were fulling the wool

The wise woman!! The wise woman, their are two thing ye should know about the wise woman!!

You think thats bad , wont to try been a Gong farmer!

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BALDRICK!

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Ugh!

I couldn't think of a better tester for all these cures. Too bad he didn't get the full treatment, but then he complained vehmently about the leech. Obviously he was never in the military where you del with the leeches when crossing slow moving streams and stagnant water. Tony is suh s woos.

That's a step to far? I saw u walk in pee bro. For nothing really, we don't live in the 1600. U did that for fun.

Medieval medicine is bad enough without watching him kill something. Was it necessary to actually kill the eel? Stopped watching after that. Cruel.

And now they have turned to animal abuse. What a shame. I'm never going to watch this series again.