Frightens and fascinates: medicine of the past

We have become accustomed to the fact that modern medicine has achieved incredible progress, the drugs and techniques that are familiar to us no longer seem miracles. But in the old days, doctors knew very little about the human body, and there were many charlatans among them. Therefore, some medical procedures existing at that time were incredibly strange and painful. One should only rejoice that we are living in the 21st century and can enjoy the benefits of modern scientific achievements!

In psychiatric clinics, patients were swaddled in wet blankets to calm.

Costume medical worker from the X-ray room, presumably 1918.

In order to avoid the development of rickets in winter, children were irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, in 1925.

Dr. Lewis Seir treats scoliosis. Photos of Victorian England time.

Dr. Clark's spinal apparatus was advertised in 1878 as a device that allows people with back problems to walk for several minutes (or even hours) a day.

Portable defibrillator of the 1960s.

Physiotherapy, 1920s.

The operations were not always performed under anesthesia. Patients before the operation were given only a little ether, that's all the anesthesia. The photo of the amputation was made presumably in 1885.

Anatomical model of a pregnant woman, the 80s of the 17th century. And the box in the form of a coffin served as a reminder that it is possible to study anatomy only on deceased people.

European armchair for delivery, circa 1750.

Wheelchair, 1915.

Therapeutic radioactive water, circa 1928

Prosthesis of the leg, 1890.

Prosthesis of the brush, circa 1800.

Apparatus "Iron lungs", 1950s. Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the small patients were placed in the apparatus "Iron lungs", which simulated breathing.

The medical heroin that Bayer sold in the 1890s.