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Victorian plague cures, miasma theory, four humors, shaved‑chicken poultice, mercury poisoning, urine medicine, leeches — the gross truth behind pre‑germ‑theory medicine.
Dive into the strangest, most stomach‑turning medical practices of the pre‑germ era. From the Great Stink and plague‑doctor beaks stuffed with herbs to poison‑based “cures,” human‑excrement plasters, and the infamous shaved‑chicken poultice, this episode exposes how bad science, superstition, and class politics shaped public health. Learn why people believed foul air and imbalanced humors caused disease, how isolation and sanitation quietly outperformed many treatments, and why Leicester’s controversial approach still gets cited by modern sceptics. This is a dark, educational tour through medical history that explains how germ theory finally rewired medicine — and why we owe Jenner, sanitation, and vaccines for saving millions of lives. Subscribe for more weird history and medical horror stories.

Video Chapters
0:00 Intro Hook — gross cures you won’t forget
0:18 Why they believed it — Miasma and Four Humors
1:05 Weaponised smells and plague doctor masks
1:45 Poison cures — mercury, arsenic, and “salivation”
2:20 Animal remedies — toads, pigeons, and the Vicary chicken poultice
3:05 Leeches, bloodletting, and urine medicine
3:45 Human‑excrement plasters and sepsis risk
4:20 Leicester’s method and the anti‑vax movement
5:05 Numbers, prosecutions, and the 1885 protest
5:45 The 1898 Vaccination Act and conscientious objection
6:20 Germ theory, sanitation, and the path to eradication
6:50 Closing thoughts and why this matters today
7:10 End slate, subscribe, and related videos