28 Terrifying Medical Devices From Medicine's Brutal Beginnings
As time marches on, everything around us changes. Technology, infrastructure, travel, and of course, medicine. It's crazy when you look back at what was considered some of the most groundbreaking and top-of-the-line treatments available in days of old. Especially since by today's standards most of them seem like medieval torture devices more so than medicine.
So get ready to let your mind wander and be in awe (as well as disbelief) as we explore a collection of creepy historical practices, devices, and photos in the practice of medicine.
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Masks worn by doctors during the Plague. The beaks held scented substances to mask the scent of death and dying.
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Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination. Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived. c. 1937
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Obstetric phantom, Italy 1700-1800. Tool to teach medical students and midwives about childbirth
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Anatomical Model. Doctors were not allowed to touch the women's bodies, so they would point to describe pain locations
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Leonid Rogozov, the only surgeon on an Antarctic expedition, performing surgery on himself after suffering from appendicitis. April 30, 1961
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