Timestamps: You can also listen to my stories on streaming platforms: ffm.to/thefrenchwhisperer Patrons can download videos in HD, or audio only, and watch/listen offline. www.patreon.com/thefrenchwhisperer 0:00 Relax and Get Ready 1:45 Prehistory and Knowledge Accumulation 8:49 Ancient Mesopotamia 13:45 Ancient Egypt 20:16 India and Ayurveda 27:02 China and Acupuncture 32:30 Greek and Roman Antiquity 40:49 Humorism and Medieval Times 50:48 Birth of Modern Medicine Slumber App free trial (30 days): slumber.fm/fw (this is a paid promotion). If you cannot access the extended free trial (if the app offers only the standard 7 days), try closing the app after installation and clicking this link again.

this timing is insane. I literally gave a presentation for uni today on medieval depiction of two saints who were doctors and how they represent the medieval idea of medicine!

I'm a nurse who's fascinated by the evolution of medicine. This was relaxing and informative. The ending gave me a huge smile when you spoke about Florence Nightingale and the professionalization of nursing. Thank you for all the extensive research and cross-referencing you must do to make your content. I'm now your patron!

I thought this video... with is medical theme... would be a perfect time to tell my story. So I've been having these horrible migraines. They just triggered one day and didn't stop. I'm on some medications that are helping now. But before that, there was an 8 day period where my doctor was booked out... and I couldn't see her for about a week. I was in ALLOT of pain. The migraines were so frequent and so so painful. During those few days... I couldn't do much because I couldn't look at TV or phone screens... or any like that. By some luck.. I managed to find your channel. I was able to listen to you videos without it irritating the pain. After just a little while I realised that not only do you not irritate the pain... you seem to actually help sooth the pain. Like litteraly, no joke... it feels so relieving. This has been an extremely difficult time in my life. I was actually contemplating ending my life... because the pain was so bad. I was terrified in a way I've never been before. I couldn't do anything. Everything was hurting me... everything was a trigger... I actually couldn't even lay my head down and try sleep... because that was a trigger. And at times the pain was so bad... I actually think I started hallucinating. I really wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you do here. You helped me at a time when not much else could. I can't express how greatful I am. Now when I get a migraine I always put your videos on. This video today makes me think about how lucky I really am because.... Imagine what this would have been like in a time before medicine? I'm very lucky!

I just took a Biological Anthropology class in the spring and I learned that primates *can* actually teach new behaviors and tool usage between generations. One example is a Japanese macaque who started to wash sweet potatoes before eating them and now the entire group she belonged to continues to do so, decades later. I don’t think this detracts from the points you were making at all, as it is only very simple behavior that is being taught. That said, it might be interesting for another video to explore what makes humans “human”. Is it tools (if other animals also use tools)? Is it language? Is it art? It’s a fascinating deep dive. Wonderful video, as always.

The podcast Sawbones has a different episode each week covering an aspect of ancient medical history! It’s super fascinating and one of my favorite podcasts, if you’re interested in this stuff it’s a great one to check out. Amazing work as always, thank you French Whisperer 😌

Medicine?! Sweet! That was my favorite topic in medical school! History of medicine does kind of get glossed over a lot. It’s pretty fascinating, really.

I absolutely LOVE the topics you choose. They’re all things I’ve wanted to learn about but never remember to research OR the topic seems so unwieldy I don’t even try. THANK YOU, Mr. French Whisperer! 😘

Old timey medicine, oooh yeahhhhhh! This was my favourite topic in history class at school. Love it.

it's simply amazing how you always manage to pick the most interesting of subjects!! thank you as always for your hard work 💜

Most people have no idea that someone in the middle class of a developed nation lives better than 99.99% of all human human history including royalty.

So looking forward to this one! Everything around history of science is welcome. Understanding where we are in the context of where we’ve been is pure gold. Throughout history but especially the last 500 years or so, there have been a number of points in time when scientists thought they had “finished science”. Needless to say, scientists today have a better perspective on the matter lol

this is one of the things im super interested in! i love studying infectious diseases, and many civilizations had varying approaches as to how to care for certain illnesses. i just started the video, but im already so excited!

I could totally cope with you doing 3 hours on each type of medicine you covered in this! Really interesting thank yooou

I love how your sleeves blend into the table. Gives the illusion of your hands floating.

As someone working on getting into nursing school, I appreciate this video, I love medical history 🥰🥰🥰

It always boggles my mind that in the 1200s they was like. "yea your stomach hurts? Drink Mercury that will help it."

to be honest i’ll be watching a bit to sleep and saving the rest to listen while working. you’re great at finding niche but fascinating topics that i actually want to learn about! it’s a wonder you can put me to sleep too.

Highly recommend “The idea of the brain” by Matthew Cobb, a great book on history of neuroscience

I've watched this 3 times now and all I've learned about medicine is "Hello Everyone" :(

Thank you for your wonderful posts. I think you really have saved my life. The best news for me is that my son is organising a Spotify account for my birthday so I can listen to you on that and as he is paying for my account I will be able to go to your patron account and pay some to you. You truly have the most wonderful voice and your accent is beautiful. I fall asleep listening to you every night now so have to replay the posts over & over to get the full story but it is wonderful to sleep. I've had severe insomnia since leaving the military and wondered if I'd ever get a good night sleep again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Wonderful! I love your videos and would love to see one on Brazilian Indigenous culture & myths. We have an incredibly rich cultural history to be explored!

I've been binging a lot of your episodes for sleep and train journeys lately, and it's truly impressive how thorough and good the writing and presentation of information is. When I first searched "ASMR history" out of boredom and found this channel, I was expecting to be happy enough with someone basically reading a Wikipedia entry out loud. Instead you research really thoroughly, order the story well, present a considered and multicultural perspective to whatever you talk about, and make sure to make technical parts easy to understand. And I get ASMR tingles from it along with all that learning? Amazing work. Thank you for this channel.

Such a fascinating topic ! I learned a lot with this one. Some old ways are still practiced today ! Certainly the knowledge humans have learned throughout time has helped our society today. We have more to learn & share for centuries to come. I loved this one !! You must've had to research so much sir . You teach, we learn Thank you.. Peace A Canadian Fan

for my GCSE history I need to do medicine through time so I'll definitely be using this

Very excited for this one! Thank you for making it!

One of the reasons I subscribed is that I can relax AND learn something. Looking so forward to listening. ❤❤

I come here every night since you've published. I fall asleep and come the next day to watch from where i left and last remember. I love this video, thank you for the amazing content♡

Ty for everything you do for us, your humble subscribers, to relax and enjoy your beautiful voice!!!

This is really interesting. Would you consider devoting a whole series to the history of medicine? There is so much to cover.

💯 as always ✨

Thank you sooo very much for what you do! Not only does it help me but I'm fascinated by why. I appreciate you!

I have listened to this 5 times now because it sounds like an amazing topic. However, u r too good at your job! I can’t get through the first 5 minutes, thank you!

Thank you! So excited to go to bed every time you do a new video. 💛💚

just love your voice and informational vidoes. thank you

If only this came out before I gave my final essay on Hellenic Medicine 😭 Love it anyways!

I love your voice and topics thank you from the UK

The story is ASMR medicine! ✨

Hey French! I love this video, as always, but I did want to correct one quick thing. While it is true that no other species passes down quite as much knowledge as humans, it isn’t true that no other species does so. Cetaceans (dolphins, whales etc) have been known to pass such knowledge of feeding spots and safe harbors to their children, and elephants have been known to pass down entire migration paths through generations by way of a matriarch. Its hard to remember sometimes that we are still quite new as a species, and while we can’t understand other animals communication, we can certainly see that it does exist. But yeah. Amazing video as always!!

I would love to listen to an episode on the history of beds!

I love the history of medicine, my favourite podcast is about that! Really appreciate you doing this topic 😊

Currently at the end of my second year learning about the causes of illness and prevention throughout time at GCSE. I’m taking them next year, so hopefully this’ll help!

I view this as basically (historical) medical anthropology, and med-anth is a very underappreciated topic, and I think it is well treated here

Love your channel. I’m a doctor so I am especially happy for this video!

This is going to be amazing tonight! Thank you

Thank you for yet another fascinating and soothing video Mr Whisperer. Would you consider making one about the Cathars? I find them very interesting. There are castles, mysteries, drama, historical context and all the good ingredients of a bedtime story...

I love this! I’ve been listening to a casual podcast about old ‘medicines’ and this has conked me right into sleep several times

I love all of your videos! You help me sleep almost every night, and I get to learn too (bonus!) Thank you 😀

What’s funny and kind of tragic is that two Ancient Greek philosophers-Leucippus and Democritus-challenged humorism and essentially hypothesized the atom. Obviously they didn’t have the same understanding of it and technology we have today. But Hippocrates, and later Aristotle, won-out with their earth, wind, fire, and water hypothesis simply because they were more influential. Their cults of personalities lasted through the medieval era and Renaissance to the point where the Catholic Church, without even realizing it, was just as mired in Aristotelian thought as it was in biblical text if not more so. A good example of this was Galileo finding evidence of Copernicus’ heliocentric model. He was a genuine catholic himself and actually found a way where certain biblical stories could function with a spherical Earth revolving around the Sun rather than a geocentric flat Earth model. His detractors were so stubborn and basically butthurt that it boiled down more to protecting their egos, reputations, and status within the Church that they threatened him with torture; meanwhile, all they were really doing was reciting and defending an Aristotelian model of the universe that predated the Bible. So naturally, they did what good religious folks do and threatened him with torture and made him publicly recant his “heresy.” I just wonder what types of medical and overall scientific advancements we’d have by now if the correct people had won out back in their day instead of hundreds or even thousands of years later. We’d probably have a cure for death by now 😔

You always produce the best content, I always look forward to a new upload! I've just finished a module at uni on the history of medicine so this is extra fascinating! Thanks for your great work :))

J'adore! Je devore toutes tes vidéos. Mais j'aimerais tellement que tu refasses parfois des vidéos en français !

Fascinating!! I'm excited for this 😊

Thank you. Just in time for bed time.

Thanks!

I can't sleep to this . This is Gold.

This is just in time. As a pharmacology student I think this video is lovely and your voice is so soothing.

Your uploads are always much anticipated! Just wonderful, as usual :)

Amazing gift. Do you use any sort of (pre or post) sound processors? Loving the props. The amount of research and writing to prepare these videos are underappreciated.

I first came across your stories on CALM the app. I’m so glad I found you on here.

Black/ white space if you need it

This is so fascinating!! Thank you for yet another amazing video.

Been looking forward to this since your announcement last week. You seem to show up just when I need you. Merci : )

Great storytelling and presentation! I'm blown away 🥰

I listened to this- don’t remember any of it- great job!! I stayed awake like 5 seconds 🎈

Hey guys, if anyone would like to know I just got my tattoos that where found on otzi the icemans body, his tattoos where presumed to be in the locations on his body because it was thought that it was used as a form of acupuncture to help relieve things like inflammation, arthritis, and nerve damage.

Yesss I love this topic. Thank you 🙏

Merci beaucoup pour une autre merveilleuse vidéo, monsieur!

Love your videos ❤❤❤

starting this one over, my cat woke me up!

Phenomenal, as always.

very interesting as always, thank you!!

Halo everyone

I love your stories.

Great topic! Thank you!

Thanks

Looking forward! ♥️ Mérci!!!!

started medical school just last month!

How can I learn from this. He keeps putting me to sleep

Wow, thank you

Good storys

So interesting, thank you

I’m so excited! I would love to request a video on Area 51…. Not very old in comparison but It’s so I could listen with my daughter!

I wish you were my History teacher. Mine years ago talked like Jeremy Clarkson without the charisma so I learned in climaxes. "... Blah blah that's when He devloped...the great leap forrwarrrd." "blah bah.. They decided to develop home made forges, but they weren't as effective as industrial steeeeeel." I expected my teacher to unveil the new Ferrari. " 0. To 60 in under 1.6 seconds. Making Mao the fastest accelleration... In the world"

You Have wonderful recordings. But was it my imagination or did sometimes the volume of this rise and fall?

Cool topic :)

I am once again asking for a Musketeer ASMR, either the real life Musketeers or Alexander Dumas' book telling of them.

Y aura t-il de nouveau des vidéos en français ?? Ce sont mes préférées et les seules avec lesquelles je parviens à m endormir ( car les videos en anglais me demande trop de concentration donc je les gardes pour d'autre moment). En tout cas merci beaucoup pour ces videos toujours d'une très très grande qualité :))

Medieval medicine: do whatever you like and pretend you're helping.

My professor role my class they used gems or things like that as medicines

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you should do The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran! its not as long as your videos usually are but it would be aaaammmmmaaazzzziiiinnnngg

GCSE all coming back to me now

Exceptional use of your talents good sir. I thank you kindly for not wasting my time.

YAY

The Crimean War wasn't fought over Russian expansionism, it was fought in order to resolve disputes between France and Russia regarding the rights of Christian minorities in the Levant.

You do know your the best right?! 💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜

oh you answered my demand of make a madecin history vedio 😳😍😂🌍

I would say the root of modern medicine probably starts around 800 AD in the House of Wisdom established by the Abbasid Caliphate (which still stands today in Baghdad, Iraq).

Bonjour, J’aimerais simplement savoir si vous prévoyez de faire de nouvelles vidéos disponibles en français Merci

Bummer....no fireplace sounds after the stories are over.