How Did People Deal With Pain Before Painkillers?

Support our non AI content from £3 on Patreon or YT Memberships for extra videos & bonus content, funded and influenced directly by you! https://www.patreon.com/cw/OfficialMedievalMadness Modern medicine means that pain relief is as easy as swallowing a quick pill. But pain has always been a part of human existence, so just how did the Medievals find ways to push on through? Let’s travel back in time to the Middle Ages and take a look at internal corruption, leech spit and a happy accident. Welcome to Medieval Madness. 0:00 Introduction 0:43 A Divine Gift 3:15 Levelling Up 4:25 The Panacea 6:23 Serendipity 8:26 Knockout Drops Narrated by James Wade Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe Edited by Jamit Productions Thank you for watching! SOURCES: The Comtesse DeSpair, (Feb 2019) All About Dwale, Morbid Fact Du Jour! Dawson, I. (2005) Medicine in the Middle Ages, Enchanted Lion Books, New York. Macdonald, F. (2006) The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages, World Almanac Library, Milwaukee. Menegakis, J. (Summer 2025) Complicating leprosy in the late medieval West, A Journal of Medical Humanities, Hektoen International. Pare, A. (2010) Journeys in Diverse Places, Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Perry, K. 10 Bizarre and Bloody Practices of Medieval Barbers, Ranker. The Trotula: an English translation of the medieval compendium of women’s medicine, (2002), University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Welch, C. & Brown, R. (Spring 2016) From Villainous Letch and Sinful Outcast to "Especially Beloved of God": Complicating the Medieval Leper through Gender and Social Status, Historical Reflections/ Reflexions Historiques, Vol. 42, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender and Status in the Medieval World (SPRING 2016), pp. 48-60 (13 pages) JSTOR.org Woolf, A. (2014) Death and Disease, Wayland, London. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are, or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please email us at info@top5s.co.uk Copyright © 500 AD to 1500 All rights reserved.