History Channel - The Plague part 11

Documentary from the History Channel

Category:

Education

Tags:

• plague
• history
• channel

[hatchbx]

ok, this marks the 3rd time the narrator has introduced the flatulents as if it were the first! wtf

[deaconsmom2000]

Flaggellants!!!! Dammit anyhow - not flatulence! 

[nanarockband]

what's with the bloody video skipping...

[TheMeerkittens]

funerals? monotonus? nooo.....

[8698gil]

In 15th century Europe, it was widely believed that too much bathing could actually cause illness, and people were quite repulsively smelly and dirty at that time. If anyone had suggested illnesses were caused by something too small to see, they would have thought it was ridiculous. In places like medieval Japan, people were fanatical about cleanliness, and had far less illness, even though they didn't realize it was being clean that kept them healthy.

[8698gil]

It wouldn't matter if these people were all atheists. It was ignorance that killed them. Although its true that any scientific discoveries that were contrary to the teachings of the church were rigorously suppressed at the time. In any case, medicine was extremely primitive and based on superstition in those days, they didn't have a clue what really caused disease.

[DerangederX]

@cataubawoman It's rather self-explanatory.

[cataubawoman]

@DerangederX No, that's what happens when you are terrified and desperate and will do anything in hopes that you will be spared from death.

[Quusboy]

change it to Flatulence and this would be fucken hilarious!

[Kindred1a1]

@DerangederX

You said thats what happens when u let religion into your life. And seeing as how to video is depicting people that are fanatically religious, one can only assume that your statement was a derogatory comment towards religion.