Disturbing Health & Beauty Fads From The Victorian Era | Answers With Joe

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Here we go again. I recently covered the Victorian Era but today I want to point out the incredibly weird health and beauty practices that Victorians were into back in the day.

As I say in the video, Victorian medicine was a mix of terrible old ideas and terrible new ideas, from people drinking radioactive water to eating ground-up mummies our transition to the modern medical system we see today hit some interesting bumps in the road.


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LINKS LINKS LINKS:

https://historyofyesterday.com/eben-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette...

https://thevictorianhistorian.com/bea...

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/06...

https://www.history.com/news/england-...

http://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-F...

https://www.ranker.com/list/victorian...

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/1...

https://thevictorianhistorian.com/music/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distil...


Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Weird Victorian Medicine
5:53 - They Did Weird Things To Look Good
8:11 - Women Had It Rough
13:14 - Barbershop Quartets
15:30 - They Ate Mummies (And Were Obsessed With Egypt)
20:38 - Conclusion
22:13 - Sponsor Read