Medicine of the last century: 20 frightening photographs of medical instruments and methods of treatment of the last century

1. Patients of a psychiatric clinic
2. Medical worker of the X-ray room
3. Getting vitamin D in winter
4. Method for the treatment of scaliosis
5. Physiotherapy room
6. Leg amputation
7. European maternity chair
8. Leg prosthesis
9. Arm prosthesis
10. The device "Iron lungs"
11. Spinal apparatus of Dr. Clark
12. The world's first defibrillator
13. Wheelchair
14. Radioactive water
15. Jar for leeches
16. Anatomical model of a pregnant woman
17. Heroin used in medicine
18. Masks to hide facial injuries
19. Capacity of blood transfusion
20. Surgical instruments

Video: Medicine of the last century: 20 frightening photographs of medical instruments and methods of treatment of the last century

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

A frightening and very strange method of curing ailments

Bizarre medical tools, daunting procedures, and bizarre approaches to healing patients. We have collected all this in our review dedicated to the medicine of the last century. Looking at these photos, it remains to breathe a sigh of relief that today everything is different.

1. Patients of a psychiatric clinic

To calm the sick, paramedics swaddled them in wet blankets

2. Medical worker of the X-ray room

Nurse costume during the First World War (France, 1918)

3. Getting vitamin D in winter

Small children were irradiated with ultraviolet light to avoid the development of rickets, 1925

4. Method for the treatment of scaliosis

5. Physiotherapy room

The first experience of physiotherapy in barrels with a decoction of medicinal herbs, 1920

6. Leg amputation

One of the first surgical operations using ether as an anesthetic, 1855-1860

7. European maternity chair

Birthing chairs have been in use since ancient times up to the 1800s

8. Leg prosthesis

Woman embarrassed by her prosthesis and covers her face with a newspaper, 1890-1900

9. Arm prosthesis

10. The device "Iron lungs"

Before the invention of the polio vaccine, patients were placed in an iron lung machine that simulated breathing used in the 1950s

11. Spinal apparatus of Dr. Clark

Dr. Clarke's Spine Traction Machine, 1878

12. The world's first defibrillator

A device that triggers the heart of a person who is in a state of clinical death

13. Wheelchair

Wheelchair for people with disabilities, 1915

14. Radioactive water

"Healing" radioactive water used for medicinal purposes, 1928

15. Jar for leeches

16. Anatomical model of a pregnant woman

The coffin model was used to emphasize that the study of human anatomy can only be conducted on the dead, 1680

17. Heroin used in medicine

Medical heroin from the Bayer Company, 1890

18. Masks to hide facial injuries

A collection of masks to hide injuries on the face

19. Capacity of blood transfusion

20. Surgical instruments

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