We have become accustomed to the fact that medicine has made incredible progress, our usual drugs and methods do not seem miracles. But in the old days doctors knew practically nothing, and charlatans among them were many.Therefore, certain existing at the time of medical procedures were incredibly strange and painful. It should only be glad that we live in the XXI century!
1. In psychiatric hospitals patients were wrapped in wet blankets to comfort.
2. Costume nurse from X-ray room, about 1918
3. In order to prevent rickets, children received winter tanning, about 1925
4. Dr. Lewis Sayre treating scoliosis
5.Spinnoy unit Dr. Clark was advertised in 1878 as a tool that allows people with problems to go back a few minutes - or even hours - a day.
6. The first defibrillator
7. Physiotherapy, about 1920
8. Operations are not always carried out under anesthesia. Patients were given before surgery is only slightly ether anesthesia here and all, about 1885
9. The anatomical model of a pregnant woman. A case in the form of a coffin served as a reminder that you can only learn anatomy on dead people, about 1680
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10. European ancestral seat, about 1750
11. The wheelchair, about 1915
12. Medical radioactive water, about 1928
13. The prosthetic foot, about 1890
14. The denture brush, about 1800
15. Apparatus "iron lungs", about 1950
Before the invention of the polio vaccine patient was placed in "iron lungs" which simulated breathing.
16. Medical heroin, which is sold by Bayer in the 1890s
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17. Pain pills with cocaine
18. Bank for leeches, about 1800s
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