people used to use some pretty insane stuff to cure illnesses let’s talk about that good mythical morning you should be thankful link mythical beasts I am thankful if you are receiving this program I like to call it a program on your internet that means you probably live in a society where you’ve got access to relatively advanced or super advanced health care as you look throughout the past people used to do crazy stuff to try to cure people of all kinds of different illnesses remedies remedies and there is a recent book that came out it’s called how to cure the plague and other curious remedies by Julian Walker and at all Julia basically this is a book that catalogues a bunch of crazy ways that people used to treat different illnesses okay not saying any of these necessarily worked but they were accepted remedies now we’re going to play a little game link what I’m gonna do is I’m going to read out some from the book and some from my own mind okay remedies and you’re going to guess whether or not these were actually thought of as remedies in the past or whether they are not whether they were affected not whether they were whether they were real they were thought to be actual okay can they play along at home you can’t and what can they win uh well they can’t win anything but you my friend what are you doing I’m transforming oh all right I I don’t really I you know I don’t like to get into a costume because it’s kind of cheesy sometimes but I’m gonna be reading some old-time remedies and I wanted it to be believable and maybe throw you a curve ball a little bit do I look like a all-time medicine man I kind of feel like I might be do you like boys cuz I’ll use this voice yeah this is a great this will be the voice that I’ll use this is great I’ll can’t have a nightmare about this tonight and if you get seven out of ten I’ll give you a tincture that I’ve made what a teacher I’ve got it in my wagon oh what a chink sure I don’t know what that is I’m tincture it’s for your eyes it’ll help you see it I think sure a tincture without glasses what is it tincture you just play along and you’ll get to find out maybe if you’re good at this game okay here’s the first remedy I use my regular voice in between good this is my regular voice yes pull the beard down when you use your regular voice take one handful of grounsell 12 heads of house leek 1 pint of goose dung as much chickens dung of the newest that can be gotten stay up the herbs as small as you can then put the dung into a mortar labor them together half an hour and strain it through a canvas bag it’ll last two years and this will treat anyone that is burned with gunpowder or otherwise so a gunshot burn put put your goose poop on it oh and your chicken poop a little bit of both I would say this is a real remedy you’re correct good job sound out true I figure you started off with a true one I did good thinking you’re smart yeah smaller than you look yeah I’ll just keep using this voice know you like it pull the beer down you break it always today okay good job you great one I do I made that that was real great I got that I don’t know about this next one huh all right me neither it’s probably false go ahead fungus bunions and other foot ailments combined in a stone Calder over moderate flame the leaves of wormwood the remnants of any root vegetables left from prior suppers past pig innards unclean and fresh milk acquired from a related swine stir with wooden paddle for several hours until a thick film develops a pond surface begin to sup feet in concoction for no less than half an hour Oh suck your feet for fungus in pig innards the film on top of pig innards and pig milk and some Pig milk from a related swine that’s a swine that’s related to the one you killed for the innards that’s uh I’m gonna say real remedy on this one – yeah lose the beard for a second and okay yo man did this uh it sounded okay so I’m okay I’m 1 for 2 I made that one up that is all Pig owners must related swine that was good that was good for sprains strains laying back and rheumatism good-sized live toads for a number put into boiling water cooked very soft take them out and boil the water now to half pint add fresh churned unsalted butter 1 pound and simmer together at the last add tincture of arnica 2 ounce of Arctica so this is some tinctures and black toads yeah boiled what is it a true brain strange lame back in rheumatism true this is a actual remedy ok and I knew that for epilepsy because he is very subject to the falling sickness and as soon as he has attacked with this disease and Minister the Elks call or the horn upon the left foot are near the sufferers nose so this is a take and an Elk’s foot and burn and burn it near the epileptics knows it’s real remedy yeah that seems so real you’re good at this link Lincoln I’m how about research to remedy hemorrhoids a common helmet to be cure to surely with a solution to standing pond water and a small vinegar and minister through enema and expelled slowly this is a so this is pond water mixed with vinegar in an enema which is it goes up your yeah i’m use expel it yes wooly yeah what yeah I wonder who would have chosen to make up one about this this is false you just wanted to say expel it slowly you’re good at this Lincoln thank you blindness oh guys we’re gonna cure blindness for those whom vision have been stricken a wash comprised of the urine of wild boar mingled with the powder of charred oak and sage to be applied a fortnight have proven a cure for many so so urine no one ever and on the eyes no one ever thought that pee on the eyes is gonna cure blindness that is also false remedy ding oh you’re real natural my great-great-great grandfather was a poultice maker seems like you might be getting some of my tincture I don’t know if I want any here teacher children urinating the bed a mouse rotted and given to children to eat many of peeing the bed rotten Mouse rotten Mouse to a child uh no that’s not a remedy it is a remedy it was a real remedy man they gave a rotten Mouse to a child to eat oh my gosh that’s cruel in what you in the bed they also died horrible mallory morbus collar amorphous yeah having returned from the Americas common is the ailment of Cholera morbus and ship and crew dire is the illness in its severity and just clean blood healthy companion clean blood of a healthy companion allow to draw toxins from them then cleanse with liquid ocean liquid ocean you said that liquid ocean you know I never said liquid ocean well I said a lot of crazy things cleanse with liquid O’s as opposed to what frozen ocean not a remedy ice ocean not a room it yeah you’re right cuz it’s ice ocean glacier right okay unidentified oils rubbing with vigor oils on the skin with the remnants of recently released recently deceased foul brown to a paste and churn with aniseed oil is to be an acceptable cure for conditions of the skin unidentified unidentified skin but edie ground-up bird on it yeah in the aniseed that is that is good fetid so that is their remedy you made that up yes how many is he missed yeah you can either miss this and not win or get oh it comes down you’re gonna liar alright buddy if you got what I want the tank you get some of my tincture don’t sure your your vision cut the tincture up here oh it’s a tincture of whoa I made it it’s it from things in the kitchen it’s got some some chocolate it’s got some kool-aid it’s got water it’s got some nuts that’s pretty much what it’s got so if I get this one right I get to drink this you got to rub it on your eyeballs it’ll make your blindness go away give it to him to make a tooth to fall without smart the gray worms breathing under wood or stones having many feet and when they be touched do they cluster together like pork and pickles these pierce through with a bumpkin or like thing and then put into the tooth that Akos alas the pain it’s like the King James Version all of a sudden put o put a worm on it on it too so it falls out now ain’t you clustered together the worms you pierced them through with a bodkin or a like thing and then put three into the tooth so take care of it you have to drink the tincture if I get it right nothing in my eyeballs to cure myself it is not a remedy that is not a remedy oh yeah I’ll put it in my balls oh so I got it wrong danger is a prize wait here didn’t you rub it in your I’ll do it later just drink it you i won you have to drink it well it’s weird I won you have to drink it thanks for liking and commenting on this episode ah you have to drink your own some bad why am i drinking when you lost i won no you didn’t oh really not bad you know what time it is this is Nick lucid from Plymouth Michigan it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality if you rub a little bit of twitter.com slash rhett and Link on your eyeball it’ll give you hours of fun also click through to good mythical more where Rhett not using that voice hopefully will share with me actual workable wives tale remedies they work your coach Rhett’s halftime pep talk to QB link trying hard coach listen listen your eye contact yeah first what light got these on that’s stupid hey my eye protection coach but these are these are magic I’ve been saving these all season they’re magic glasses okay I’ll listen you’ve embarrassed us all season you’ve embarrassed me they’re gonna fire me anyway and it’s all your fault you let your parents down that’s why they put you up for adoption and you’re living in the back house in my shed this is your only chance to have any life coach do something not wrong for once use the magic glasses how much what if I do with the glasses coach just look at what the ball well I’m the one throwing the ball oh you’re not the receiver I’m a quarterback coach that’s a serious problem also drinking something warm when you’re constipated starting your day can we move on to something besides what’s wrong like my grandma every other word she talks about constipation