What Did Medieval People Do To SURVIVE The Black Death?

A thousand-year-old recipe was tested against one of the deadliest superbugs in modern medicine. It killed 999 out of every 1,000 bacteria. The people who wrote it had no germ theory and no microscopes. Medieval villagers had no doctors, no hospitals, and no understanding of why people got sick. But when epidemics wiped out one in every two or three people, some survived. This is the story of how, and what their survival left behind in your DNA. In this video, you will learn: Who actually healed people in medieval villages when doctors did not exist The thousand-year-old recipe that outperformed our strongest antibiotic How a 1377 law in Dubrovnik invented the concept of quarantine The village that sealed itself off from the world and saved northern England The genetic trade-off that protected your ancestors from plague but left you vulnerable to autoimmune disease Sources: Harrison et al., Scientific Reports (2020). Klunk et al., Nature (2022). Whittles and Didelot, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. University of Nottingham AncientBiotics Project. Dubrovnik Archives (1377). #MedievalHistory #BlackDeath #Plague #BubblicPlague #MedievalMedicine #Quarantine #MRSA #AncientDNA #Eyam #BaldsLeechbook #HerbalMedicine #WiseWomen #MedievalVillage #Genetics #ERAP2 #HistoryOfMedicine #Dubrovnik #ScienceHistory #Evolution #Pandemic