Showing posts with label medical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical. Show all posts

Mar 25, 2015

MEDICAL TOUR OF THE PAST

Masks worn by doctors during the Plague.

Woman with artificial leg, circa 1890-1900.

Early plastic surgery.

Dr. Clark's Spinal Apparatus advertisement, 1878.

Lewis Sayre's scoliosis treatment.

Radiology nurse technician, France, WWII, 1918.

One of first surgical procedures to use ether as an anesthetic, circa 1855.

Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, Soviet general practitioner,
performs an appendectomy on himself.
More.

Nov 26, 2013

PAIN IN THE NECK

Patient who arrived at the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia is given an x-ray, only to discover his neck is full of needles. The patient is a heroin addict who would shoot up into his neck and then pass out or fall asleep, and the needles would break off into his neck.