A creepy tour through medical history.

[PickelledEggs]

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Seriously. Woah.

[GrinningYMIR]

Still not as weird as throwing a bunch of leeches on yourself hoping they'll suck out the poison.


Pretty neat though

[PickelledEggs]

did you see 28???? or even 2?

[SGOS]

Some of that was indeed creepy.  Some of it perhaps just technology that's out of date.  That stuff isn't that old either.  I wonder where we are now?  Will current medical practices someday appear in a similar presentation of creepy medical practices?

[Plu]

Some of that was indeed creepy.  Some of it perhaps just technology that's out of date.  That stuff isn't that old either.  I wonder where we are now?  Will current medical practices someday appear in a similar presentation of creepy medical practices?

Most definately. We are, after all, still cutting people open and poking their inner bits with sharp metal devices.

[SGOS]

A few years ago, you could buy reprints of the Sears Roebuck catalog from the early 1900s.  I never bought one, but I had an opportunity to browse.  There was some interesting things you could buy from Sears Roebuck, including creepy medical devices that were selling during the time.  If you ever have a chance to look through one, they are great fun, although not just because of the creepy devices.  Some of things were just nostalgia:  "Oh, I remember those things."  Some were just "WTF?"  But most of the things were obviously useful in that era, things like horse drawn farm implements.  I think you could even by a motor car.

[SGOS]

Some of that was indeed creepy.  Some of it perhaps just technology that's out of date.  That stuff isn't that old either.  I wonder where we are now?  Will current medical practices someday appear in a similar presentation of creepy medical practices?

Most definately. We are, after all, still cutting people open and poking their inner bits with sharp metal devices.

In the early 60s, I had the traditional knee operation for removal of torn cartilage.  It required a week's stay in the hospital, and a lot of pain.  Now people walk out of the hospital on the same day of that operation, or so I've heard.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

That's nothing. A lot of hospitals to this day treat things like heroin addiction with prayer. Just pray to the higher power and all gone!  :-D
In other words the treatment is no treatment at all and if you're still an addict after a few days you're just a weak person probably possessed by the devil.  

[The Skeletal Atheist]

You wanna know what they use to open your ribs if they need to do so?

A sterilized, medical version of these:


Yeah, a lot of surgical equipment resembles stuff from the hardware store. Sometimes it is just stuff from the hardware store adopted to surgical use.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Well, cutting bones still requires brute forces be it bolt cutters or a circular saw. They really don't have a pretty way to do it. I saw the tools they used to repair my cheek bones and they didn't look to much unlike my autobody tools.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Heh. In an autopsy, when they need sections of organs, it's a kitchen knife.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Heh. In an autopsy, when they need sections of organs, it's a kitchen knife.

Yeah, infection during autopsy is a real problem for Zombies.. :shock:

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Heh. In an autopsy, when they need sections of organs, it's a kitchen knife.

Yeah, infection during autopsy is a real problem for Zombies.. :shock:

Your bigotry against the undead is noted. When I had my autopsy not only was sterilization a concern, but they didn't use any anesthetic.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Heh. In an autopsy, when they need sections of organs, it's a kitchen knife.

Yeah, infection during autopsy is a real problem for Zombies.. :shock:

Your bigotry against the undead is noted. When I had my autopsy not only was sterilization a concern, but they didn't use any anesthetic.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Pat Robertson warned us against the gay zombie plague so Bush was elected...  8-[