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# Terrible Tudors, gorgeous Georgians

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# Slimy Stuarts, vile Victorians

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# Woeful wars, ferocious fights Dingy castles, daring knights

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# Horrors that defy description Cut-throat Celts, awful Egyptians

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# Vicious Vikings, cruel crimes Punishment from ancient times

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# Romans, rotten, rank and ruthless

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# Cavemen, savage, fierce and toothless

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# Groovy Greeks, brainy sages Mean and measly Middle Ages

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# Gory stories, we do that

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# And your host, a talking rat

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# The past is no longer a mystery

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# Welcome to...

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# Horrible Histories. #

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Horrible Histories presents...

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Staying fit and healthy has always been important to us humans,

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and one of the best ways to do it is to keep your bits clean.

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Ugg.

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Are you a caveman using moss to wipe your bum?

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Are you a Roman freshening up with a shared poo stick?

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-Get out!

-Are you the Frenchman who said the best thing to wipe your bum

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with was a goose head?

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Come on, it was a joke! I use a cloth.

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Who would actually use a goose?

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GOOSE SQUAWKS Shhh!

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-Then you need new toilet paper.

-What's toilet paper?

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What's toilet paper?

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What is a toilet?

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New toilet paper from China is soft, disposable,

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and mass-produced in sheets.

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FART!

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-That sounds amazing.

-Count me in.

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-What is a toilet?

-Keep your bottom clean and healthy with new toilet

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paper, as used by the Chinese emperor since 1391.

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Warning - original Chinese toilet paper,

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smallest size one metre squared.

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How big is the Chinese Emperor's bum?

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It's true. Toilet paper really was

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invented in China nearly 700 years ago.

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We get tonnes of it down here in the sewers.

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Frankly, it's not easy to stay

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healthy when you live in a massive bog pipe.

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That's why I'm on a health kick.

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Today, I am swimming 100 lengths of the public toilets.

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I'm doing 50 tail squats, and I am running...

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..to the doctors. Because just

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thinking about all that exercise has given me a headache.

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Maybe this next treatment could help?

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Are you the medicine woman?

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Yes, love. What can I do you for?

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I've got a bad pain in this bit.

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Your head?

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You're the expert.

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Well, for a headache you've got two options - "There, there,"

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or trepanning.

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Right. What is, "There, there?"

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Well, I gently pat the sore bit and say, "There, there."

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And what is trepanning?

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I grind this pointy rock into your head, puncturing your skull,

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to let the bad out.

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Right, I think I'll go with "There, there."

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Oh, right you are, then.

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KNUCKLES CRACK

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There, there.

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-How's that?

-It's no different...

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I mean, yeah, it's much better. Thank you.

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Are you sure I can't tempt you to a bit of trepanning,

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just to make sure I've got all the bad out?

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No, I'm completely cured.

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Goodbye.

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-Ow!

-Ooh. That looked nasty.

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-Pointy rock?

-No, no, I'm fine.

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Oh, go on, just a little hole.

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It'll hurt even more.

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All right, you big baby, I'll give you an anaesthetic.

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-OK.

-Right, count backwards from ten for me.

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Ten, seven, four...

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Sorry, should have used a bigger dose.

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Righty ho, then.

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You should feel right as rain as soon as you come around,

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although you might have a slight headache.

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I need trepanning like I need a hole in the head!

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Although, come to think of it,

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we Egyptians had some pretty strange theories too.

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Especially when it came to being pregnant.

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And how did you find out that you were pregnant?

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Just the usual way.

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I had a melon milkshake and threw up.

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-ALL:

-Aww!

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The milkshake test works every time.

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Oh, yes. My husband and I were out for a romantic meal.

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He ordered us both milkshake, and as soon as I saw it,

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I just threw up all over him.

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It just kept coming.

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-ALL:

-Aww!

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Yeah, it was the perfect moment.

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I can't wait to tell our son about it when he's born.

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So you know it's a boy?

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You must have done the urine test?

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Oh, yeah, of course.

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I went and weed in a field, and barley grew, so we know it's a boy.

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-ALL:

-Awww!

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Actually, do we have to make that

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noise every time? It's really annoying.

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Last time I weed in a field and wheat grew, so I knew it was a girl.

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-ALL: Aww!

-Yes, we do.

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Right, I am off to wee in a field.

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Congratulations! Are you pregnant too?

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Oh, no, no. I just drank far too much milkshake.

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ALL: Awww!

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That sound goes through me quicker than the milkshake!

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Next...

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-Good morning, Doctor.

-Please take a seat.

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Now, what can I help you with?

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I've got a bit of a sore throat.

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Well, there's a very simple Mayan cure for it,

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so if you'd just like to pop your sandal off.

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And do a little wee wee in it.

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-Excuse me?

-And now drink the wee wee.

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Isn't there a herb I could chew or something?

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No, sandal wee wee, twice a day. You'll be better in no time.

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Next!

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I'll just drink some water, lots of water.

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Hello there, Doctor.

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-Hello.

-I've twisted my ankle, and I wondered if you've got a bandage?

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Well, we don't actually recommend bandages anymore.

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No, what we have is a more advanced

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treatment that is at the forefront of Myan medical science.

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Oh, that sounds great.

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So if you'd just like to pop your sandal off.

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Take it off the good ankle.

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Off she pops, there you go.

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Do a little wee wee in it.

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-Come again?

-And then drink it.

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What if that doesn't work?

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It will.

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I think I might get a second opinion.

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-Do you?

-I do.

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Good day, Doctor.

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-Weeing in a sandal.

-Some people don't want to be helped, do they?

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What a hectic morning. I have got a banging headache.

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I have just the cure for that.

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I am feeling slightly sick, though.

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One cure...

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RETCHING

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Maybe not.

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Hello. I'm Richard the Lionheart, King of England.

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Wherever that is. I only went once when I was king,

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and I didn't much like it.

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Instead, I went on the Third Crusade to the Holy Land.

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But when I got there I got a horrid disease called arnaldia.

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But what did it do to me?

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Did it...

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The answer is...

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B. It made my skin blotchy

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and my hair and fingernails fell out.

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It's true. My hair and nails fell off.

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I mean, my hair, fair enough, but my nails...

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I've never even bitten them.

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Don't even suck my thumb.

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Much.

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Amazing. I've only been on my fitness drive for three minutes,

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and already I have a six pack...

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Of pies!

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There's a bit of nasty green stuff on the top,

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but you can soon wipe that off.

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Ah, yes, cleanliness is very important to me.

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I learned that from the Romans.

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They were very keen on personal hygiene,

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and had a very civilised approach to washing,

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although it could lead to some rather embarrassing moments.

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Welcome to Fitness Past...

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Like any young Roman, I like to hang out in baths because it's fun,

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I build up a sweat, and I get to hang out with my friends.

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-Naked.

-At Fitness Past you can exercise with your friends, naked.

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I like steam rooms because I get to relax, network,

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and chat about current events...

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-Naked.

-Can we get a lot more steam in here, please?

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Discuss the news with your friends, and influential people, naked.

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Hey, Caesar. How's it hanging?

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You know what? I think I'll come back when it's a bit quieter.

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Fitness Past, for people who like to stay fit, naked.

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Warning, bring a slave to guard your clothes, or walk home naked too.

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Not again!

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Ooh...

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It's true. We Romans were obsessed with baths.

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But not everyone in Rome thought keeping clean was a good idea.

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When the Roman Empire became Christian in the 4th century,

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one man claimed that being dirty on the outside, meant being

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clean on the inside.

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# Yo word up brothers and sisters of Rome

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# Got a message from your old mucker St Jerome

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# I'm sayin' Rome's been Christian since the 4th century

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# Takin' a bath that's just so BC

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# Look at me and my posse of Roman bellas

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# This is Leah, this is Paula, and this is Marcella

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# When I met 'em they was real proper Roman Wags

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# Now they stink to high heaven and they're wearing rags

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# It don't matter if your body smells like something obscene

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# If the outside is dirty then the inside is clean

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# That's grime

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-# It ain't no crime

-Grime

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-# We're doing fine

-That's grime

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# We're doing fine In our own grime

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# I'm a man and a monk and I'm mad as a monkey

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# I don't care if folk'll swear I smell a little bit funky

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# All the guys who are gagging out they won't be laughing

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# When they don't get into heaven for too much barfing

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# Look them pagans all smell lovely there ain't no denying

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# And I guess not washing does increase your danger of dying

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# They got saunas and steam rooms they're healthy and strong

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# But we've got something better bro and that's our pong

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-#

-Grime

-It ain't no crime

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-#

-Grime

-We're doing fine

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-#

-That's grime

-It ain't no crime

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# We're doing fine In our own grime. #

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We Greeks were far more sensible.

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We are seen as the fathers of modern medicine,

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and there was absolutely nothing

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weird about our most famous health nut...

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It's the start of a new week,

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and having been rated epic failure by Ofsted,

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headteacher Hannah Lawrence

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is looking to make some changes.

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This is Historical Educating.

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Monday morning, and class 7F have a new biology teacher.

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-Hypocrites?

-It's pronounced Hippocrates, mate.

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The father of medicine.

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Mr Hippocrates has come all the way from ancient Greece,

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and I think he wants to make learning fun.

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He's told me he's going to bring some humour into the lessons.

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What's that, sir?

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Humour. Four humours, to be precise.

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Blood, yellow stomach bile,

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black stomach bile,

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and, of course, my personal favourite...

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HE COUGHS AND SPITS

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..phlegm.

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Now, a good doctor always diagnoses

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by investigating the bodily symptoms.

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POP

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Turgid, oily, and with a hint of wee,

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which is fascinating, children, because that means his ear wax is...

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delicious.

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PUPILS VOMITING

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I saved a bit for you.

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B minus.

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Mr Hippocrates is called to the headteacher's office.

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You look a bit peaky, Headteacher. Tell me, have you done a wee today?

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Because I have.

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Hippocrates, I hear you made an entire class vomit.

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Indeed. Most productive.

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-You're fired.

-What?

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I'm the father of medicine.

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Yes, well, it's been 2,000 years, and medicine has moved on.

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Not true. Doctors still swear my Hippocratic oath today.

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Yes, we've had several parents complain...

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No, no, no, it's not that kind of swearing.

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It's a code of conduct for doctors,

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and my method for curing sore bottoms is still in use today.

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-Really?

-Yes.

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Do you mind turning the cameras off for a moment?

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The thing is...

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Whatever you say, Mr Hippo Crates, or Rhino Boxes,

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or whatever you're called.

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Now, I'm off for a healthy swim in the local pool -

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the cesspool!

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Yes, swimming is a great way to stay healthy,

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but did you know that after the Roman Empire was destroyed,

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people actually forgot how to do it for over 600 years?

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It wasn't until Tudor times

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that a new book led to swimming becoming common again.

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Oh, look, there's a couple of brown noodles I can use!

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Gentlemen, this voyage will make rich men of us all.

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Yes!

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But only if we make it back home in one piece.

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With that in mind, the captain has instructed me, as first mate,

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to give you a health and safety briefing.

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You are absolutely joking me!

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As you have noticed, gentlemen, we are on a...

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-On a high!

-On a ship!

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Yes. And what is the most dangerous thing that can happen to us

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-when we're on a ship?

-Disease?

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-No.

-Spaniards!

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Low-flying albatrosses!

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No, pretty sure that only happened to you.

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No, no, the most dangerous thing that can happen on a ship is...

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..falling off a ship. Because what happens if you do?

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-You...

-Float.

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No, the other one.

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-Drown.

-Well done.

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-You do drown.

-Good boy.

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But not any more, because now we have this brand-new book,

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The Art Of Swimming.

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Right, the first one we are going to do is...

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..breaststroke.

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Watch my hands. What am I doing?

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All right, I think we've got that one.

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Doggy paddle.

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Very simple...

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Ruff!

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OK.

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Butterfly.

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Enough of this.

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Shipmates! We're overloaded. Let's throw something overboard.

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No, no running on deck! It's slippery!

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SPLASH!

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Help! Throw me something to cling to!

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Ouch!

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It doesn't float!

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That's ironic.

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I'm a handsome doctor.

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And I've come to 17th-century France to meet the famous King Louis XIV

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at his royal palace in Versailles.

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A tiny king with a big problem.

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Excusez-moi, monsieur, who are you calling tiny?

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No, no, I am, how you would say?

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A big man. With this wig and these heels

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I must be at least six foot eight.

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See how I tower over everyone in my court.

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Why are you wearing wigs and heels too?

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Why must everyone copy me?

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-ALL:

-Why must everyone copy me?

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I'm assuming the problem is your bad breath.

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-No.

-Your funky body odour?

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Monsieur, I have had three baths in my life, that is quite enough,

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thank you very much. No, the problem is...

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HE SHOUTS

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ALL MIMIC HIS SHOUT

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Now, the King suffers from what we doctors call

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a really, really, sore bum bum.

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Luckily, help is at hand from local hairdresser Charles-Francois Felix.

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He's been developing a tool for months now

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to remove that ouchy part from the King's bottom.

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Whoa!

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-Best of luck, I'm right behind you, mate.

-Merci.

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I mean, we're all right behind you.

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You don't mind if we watch, do you?

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HE YOWLS

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THEY MIMIC YOWLING

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CONTINUED YOWLING

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It's a few days after the operation,

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and I've come to see how Louis is getting on.

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Ahhh.

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Bum bum and throne engaged.

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So the operation was a complete success

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and has changed the face - and the bum bum - of surgery for ever.

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And the best part is, no-one will want to copy me this time.

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Well, you say that, but...

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No, no! I will not operate on your bottoms, you bunch of weirdos.

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Please! I want to look like the King!

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PHONE RINGING

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Horrible Histories Health Direct, Tudor era.

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OK, so shave what's left of your hair off,

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then smear your head with fox grease,

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and maybe a hint of garlic.

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And then just rinse it all off with vinegar.

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Now, if that doesn't cure your baldness...

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Chocolate!

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My Mayan colleague is suggesting chocolate,

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but then, he says that for everything! Maybe try...

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-Chocolate!

-..wearing a wig. OK, you're welcome, bye.

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Horrible Histories Health Direct,

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you've come through to the medieval era,

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what is the nature of your medical complaint?

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I'm assuming it's the Black Death, - it usually is in the Middle Ages.

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Have you considered rubbing some scorpion oil on to the sores?

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All right, fine, no, I don't suppose there are

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many scorpions scuttling around in Barnsley.

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OK, fine.

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I suppose you can have a second opinion.

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A sensible one.

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Pass him over, I know all about it.

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Transferring you now.

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Yeah, Black Death?

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Poor thing. Don't you worry - we had a nasty dose of Black Death

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in the Tudor times too.

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What I'm going to need you to do, my love,

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is press a chicken's bum against your armpits,

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could you do that for me?

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That's it, against the swellings, yeah.

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It will help absorb the poison.

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That's what I said, a chicken's bum.

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A plucked chicken's bum.

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What do you mean you don't have one?

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What about the skull of an executed man?

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WHISPERS: I am not suggesting chocolate!

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No, stronger cure for Black Death.

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Oh, we might have a winner here, hold on.

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Well, my brother is a Mayan doctor,

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and he suggests do a big old wee-wee in a sandal, and then drink it.

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OK, have you tried chocolate?

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Chocolate!

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We Georgians weren't the cleanest of people. It was a bit of a problem,

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because we did like to look good too.

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Luckily, we had some rather fashionable quick-fix solutions

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to make ourselves look better again.

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Oh, a beauty spot!

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Delightful.

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Oh, darling, they're so beautiful.

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The way they sparkle.

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They look so expensive.

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You are worth every centime, my cherie.

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Bonjour.

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Bonjour. Bonjour. I would like to buy something

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to celebrate my love for this lovely little lady just here.

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And what could be more romantic than a new pair of teeth?

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Indeed, indeed.

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The gift that keeps on chewing.

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May I?

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Be my guest.

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Ghastly stench.

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Rotten. Oh! I've got a loose one.

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-Shall I...?

-Oh, no, no, not just yet.

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Suit yourself.

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Right, for you, madame, I recommend a full set.

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we have everything from your budget French peasant set,

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all the way up to these genuine British teeth,

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pulled at the Battle of Waterloo.

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They're awfully big.

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All right, you've got me, they might be slightly

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from a horse. What about these ones?

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Oh, they might have been the Duke of Wellington's teeth.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, possibly.

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He didn't die at the Battle of Waterloo,

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but I think you should buy them.

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For eight times the price.

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Eight times the price, you heard the teeth.

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What are YOU wearing?

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These are special ones.

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They belonged to my dear old mum.

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Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that she passed.

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Oh, no, she hasn't, I'm just

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more front of house, you know, so we swapped.

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Bonjour!

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Actually, they've never fitted her.

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Come here, Mum, give them to me.

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Here we go, oh, yes.

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Make me an offer.

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Would you prefer a ring, my love?

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Absolutely.

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Meanwhile, over in the US of A,

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we had our own health crazes, and believe me,

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some of them were pretty weird.

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Although, there is one that you still eat today.

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Yes, you can thank us for the humble cornflake.

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Oh, hi, friends.

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I'm John Harvey Kellogg,

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inventor of the world's most healthy

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and calming food - the cornflake.

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If this crazy century is leaving you in a tizzy whizzy,

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what with the aeroplanes, the cars, and the women being educated,

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then why not come and rest a spell, here at the sanitarium?

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Here at Battle Creek we believe in the simple things in life -

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praying, cornflakes, vegetarianism,

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cornflakes, and never, ever thinking about ladies.

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Ladies! Oh, cornflakes, I meant cornflakes.

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Here we follow three principles of health.

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Number one, exercise.

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Number two, cornflakes.

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And number three, enemas.

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What?

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That's right - enemas.

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We start each day with a pint of plain, dull, natural yoghurt.

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You eat half of it...

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Oh!

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..and stick the other half up your bum bum.

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With a pipe.

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It's good for you.

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-Good for me?

-Yeah, it's got good germs and stuff.

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I don't know!

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I'm getting a little anxious.

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OK, just eat some more cornflakes.

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OK, nurse!

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POP!

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Battle Creek sanitarium - exercise, relaxation, cornflakes,

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and putting yoghurt up your bum.

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Yes, we Victorians really felt like

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we'd got to the bottom of staying healthy.

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But if I'm honest, not all of them were completely successful.

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In fact, some of them might be considered quite dangerous.

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Good day.

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Welcome to QVC, the Queen Victoria Channel,

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for our round-up of the hottest new products from The Great Exhibition.

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Now, what have you got me wearing today, Constance?

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It's a corset, Verity.

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Oh, yawn, so last season.

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It's actually very much this season.

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-It's electrical.

-Electrical? How's that?

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Electricity occurs naturally

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in a whole range of new health-giving products,

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ready to buy for the canny Victorian consumer.

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When I was struggling to put this on this morning,

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you hooked it up to that battery, didn't you?

0:23:400:23:43

What Verity is demonstrating is designed to strengthen the chest.

0:23:460:23:50

I can't see!

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-How does it feel?

-Shocking!

0:23:530:23:56

We've also got this hairbrush...

0:23:560:23:59

That's more like it.

0:23:590:24:01

Oh, why me?

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You just don't get these results with a normal hairbrush.

0:24:050:24:08

I think that's all we've got time for on today's...

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You're forgetting our lovely jewellery.

0:24:140:24:17

Please, don't tell me...

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Oh, gosh!

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Now, there are only a few of these remaining, so you have to be quick.

0:24:200:24:24

Don't tell me people are actually buying these?

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No, they've mostly caught fire.

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Can someone grab the electrical fire extinguisher, please?

0:24:300:24:33

Eight...

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Nine...

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-WHISPER:

-Rattus!

-100.

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And 99.

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1,000.

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That's it - I'm as fit as a flea.

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And I should know, I've got plenty of them.

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From trepanning, electric hairbrushes,

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and the thousands of other weird and wacky ideas about health,

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it was these next three huge discoveries

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that really changed the world we live in today.

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The amazing work of Edward Jenner,

0:25:100:25:12

Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming

0:25:120:25:15

saved more lives than anything else in history.

0:25:150:25:18

You might not like having your injections,

0:25:180:25:21

but they protect you from lots of nasty illnesses and infections.

0:25:210:25:25

Thanks to them, we now all live longer, healthier lives.

0:25:250:25:30

Take it away, boys.

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# I'm Edward Jenner and I was told

0:25:310:25:37

# Mates who got cowpox once never had another episode

0:25:370:25:44

# So I-I-I injected James Phipps with a strain

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# He didn't catch smallpox

0:25:500:25:52

# He was as right as rain

0:25:520:25:56

# I gave him inoculations

0:25:570:26:01

# Despite some protestation

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# It was the first vaccination

0:26:040:26:07

# Led to his rehabilitation

0:26:070:26:10

-# Inoculation

-Imagine my elation

0:26:100:26:13

-# Medication

-At my creation

0:26:130:26:16

-# And so my vaccination

-Vaccination

0:26:160:26:20

# Led to experimentation... #

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By me!

0:26:230:26:25

# Louis Pasteur, if you please

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# Thought if that worked Surely you can vaccinate

0:26:290:26:32

# Against all disease?

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# So I

0:26:350:26:38

# Injected cholera into a hen

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# Turns out I was right

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# It lived to lay eggs again

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# I gave him immunisation

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# It was a made-up inoculation

0:26:520:26:55

-# Bit like my vaccination

-Vaccination

0:26:550:26:59

-# But with a modification

-Modification

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# Turns out this application

0:27:020:27:04

# Was a critical transformation

0:27:040:27:08

# It was a combination

0:27:080:27:11

# Of scientific dedication...

0:27:110:27:14

# Alexander Fleming

0:27:180:27:20

# I invented penicillin

0:27:200:27:23

# Accidentally

0:27:230:27:26

# Like all the best discoveries

0:27:260:27:29

-# Him

-And him

-And me

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# Saved more lives than anyone in history

0:27:320:27:35

# End disease that's killing

0:27:350:27:38

# With vaccinations and penicillin!

0:27:380:27:41

-# We gave you vaccination

-Good, good, good, vaccination

0:27:410:27:45

-# Penicillin and immunisation

-Immunisation

0:27:450:27:48

-# We gave you vaccination

-Good, good, good, vaccination

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-# Penicillin and immunisation

-Vaccination

0:27:510:27:54

-# We gave you vaccination

-Good, good, good vaccination

0:27:540:27:57

-# Penicillin and immunisation

-Immunisation

0:27:570:28:01

-# We left a world that's cheerier

-Vaccination

0:28:010:28:04

# By dealing with bad bacteria. #

0:28:040:28:07

# The past is no longer a mystery

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# Hope you enjoyed

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# Horrible Histories. #

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