Thursday, September 10, 2009

Medical Tools Of The Past

It is terrible something like O__O

Tobacco enema (1750-1810)
Used to introduce smoke into the rectum - primarily for resuscitation of drowning.
It was believed that the hot-hand tobacco smoke cause the unconscious begin to breathe.


Heurteloup (1840) was used in the treatment of diseases of ears and eyes.

Double Guillotine (1860) for removal of tonsils

screw "gag" (1880-1910) that the patient does not shut his mouth

Saw for sawing the skull (1830-60)

return "Scissors (1500) central probe was inserted into the wound, after which the wound was extended for the convenience of the surgeon

saw for amputation (1600) the doctors tried to richly decorate their instruments refined forms of certain medical instrument noise. details of the pattern is a good medium for bacteria

knife for cutting (1770)

Manual cephalotrypesis (1800)

tools for operations on hemorrhoids and uterus (1870) "chain" flunked gemmoroidalny site


struggle with hernia (1850) was injected into the body near the affected area and left for a week so that the resulting scar closed hernia

"compass" for the exact location bullets in the body (1915)

tool to extract the bullet (1500)

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