History ASMR – Medicine from Prehistory to Our Time (Bedtime Story)

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History ASMR – Medicine from Prehistory to Our Time (Bedtime Story)


This ASMR/bedtime story video is about medicine and healing since the Neolithic. I tell you about Ancient Mesopotamia and the first diagnosis and prescriptions, Ancient Egypt and the figure of Imhotep, India and the principles of Ayurveda, or Chinese Medicine including Moxibustion and Acupuncture. We also take a look at medicine in Ancient…

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  1. Timestamps:

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    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
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  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

  5. 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"

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  7. 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…

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  9. 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 😔

  10. 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.