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we've been seeing so many medical
advances in the past few years
that it's hard to imagine that it wasn't
always like this
there was a time when your barber was
also your dentist
who probably pulled your tooth in his
pawn shop on his farm
though we think of technological
advances as a daily occurrence today
in the past things moved much slower
today we're looking at the top 10
terrifying historic
medical instruments that will make you
grateful you live in the 21st century
this one gets a little gruesome so be
warned
number 10 tobacco smoke enema kit 18th
century
have you ever heard the expression don't
blow smoke up my
you know what well guess what i think i
found out exactly where that expression
comes from
because this tool is designed to do
exactly that
hysterically it looks exactly like a
bellow you'd use to blow air into a fire
but let's get past that apparently the
indigenous peoples of north america were
the first to blow smoke up each other
and their own butts for exactly how long
we're not sure
what we do know is that in the 1700s
europeans saw how much fun the
indigenous people were having
blowing smoke up their butts so they
started blowing smoke up their butts too
then figuratively the europeans blew
smoke up the indigenous people's butts
but that's a topic for a different day
this was normal behavior
up until 1811 when benjamin brody
demonstrated
by the way this article is going we're
guessing by blowing smoke up animals
butts
and then dissecting them that nicotine
in a nutshell
should not be blown up yours or anyone
else's butts
number 9 iron lung 20th century
since the polio vaccine has been in the
news recently you might have seen one of
these machines before
these were the first life support
machines and were used for keeping those
with polio alive
sometimes for even decades with polio
the muscles you use to breathe become
paralyzed and you basically
suffocate to death this machine is an
airtight chamber with an air pump
that would force your lungs to expand
and contract to allow you to breathe
sometimes it was a way to help cure
patients while for others it was the
only way of life possible
observing life from within a metal tube
at all times
despite seeming like ancient history at
least
two people in the united states are
known to still use one
number eight bullet extractor 16th
century
back in the ninth century when gunpowder
changed the game of war
it was necessary to have a way to fight
back or at least recover from some of
these near-fatal wounds
enter the bullet extractor fast forward
to the 16th century
and this device was invented although it
was more ambitious than it was effective
since it really only extracted bullets
close to the surface of the skin
it wasn't an on-the-field kind of device
but rather something used by surgeons to
get into a bullet wound
pierce the bullet with a screw and then
pull it out
to add it had a little decorative handle
because you can't be a medic without
some pizzazz
number 7 hippocratic bench 5th century
bc
a dislocated joint is probably one of
the least
dangerous but most uncomfortable
injuries people can experience
it always comes as a shock and as an
added bonus
you have to think about setting it back
into place
and that's generally painful the fix for
this type of injury has been
invented and adjusted since the 5th
century bc
when hippocrates developed the oldest
known method
the patient would lie on a bench at an
adjustable angle
and ropes would be tied around their
arms legs and feet
depending on the treatment needed
controlled by wenches
the ropes would be pulled apart
correcting any curvature in the spine or
separating an overlapping fracture as
history goes
this invention did both good and bad
having
paved the way for both modern
orthopedics and the torture device
known as the wreck number six
artificial leech 19th century
there was a time when bad blood wasn't
just a taylor swift album
or a term for having beef with someone
it was actually what you called having
some sort of
unexplained illness so to claim people
of their bad blood
through an act known as bloodletting
doctors progressed from stabbing their
patients
to using live leeches to using
artificial ones instead
enter the year 1840 this blood pumping
device consisted of rotating blades that
would cut wounds into a patient's skin
and a cylinder would produce a vacuum
effect
to suck out the infection i think i
would actually prefer
real leeches number five tree fine
17th century one of the scariest on this
list
is the tree vine a 17th century device
invented to
cut into your head if you for any reason
were having issues
even a headache could lead you to this
uncomfortable procedure
during which a doctor would cut a hole
into your skull
to expose the brain's outer layer it was
basically a manual drill
which you turn to open a hole deeper and
deeper into your head
though very brutal sounding a similar
device is still used today for certain
procedures
the key difference being that today
you're probably
under anesthesia i'm sure that probably
helps with the pain
a little number 4. hemorrhoid forceps
19th century
it's getting real uncomfortable real
fast when you pull out the hemorrhoid
forceps
no matter if you're packing a hemorrhoid
or not
since preparation h and a nice fuzzy
donut pillow weren't invented yet
people didn't really have much of a
choice for discomfort
enter the hemorrhoid forceps first the
patient would bend over
then with the hemorrhoid forceps tightly
grasp and restrict blood supply to the
hemorrhoid
until the tissue died and fell off if
the hemorrhoid was on the
inside doctors would use a hook to pull
it out
and then cauterize or snip it off aren't
you glad we have a cream now that can
make them go away rather painlessly in a
few days
number three the stricture divulsar 19th
century
the stricture divulsar was used inside
men's urethras when they became too
narrow to urinate properly
it would go in through the tip of the
penis to the problematic part of the
urethra
once it was placed the screw on the
handle was turned to
separate the blades and dilate the
urethra
they much preferred airing on the side
of dilating too much
than too little and would often push to
the point of
ripping seeing blood after was
considered a good sign
the patients would be awake the whole
time
with some opting to turn the screw
themselves making the surgery
last longer number 2 dental key
18th century dental procedures always
seem to
be some of the most medieval in their
practices and tools
back when cavities and gum diseases were
a mystery to doctors
people would seek help from people as
inexperienced in medicine as
barbers to relieve the pain caused by
sugary foods
teeth operations were some of the most
painful procedures
especially using these dental keys which
would clamp the problematic tooth
the key was then rotated and the tooth
levered out of the roots
since this was all done without any
anesthetic
many would prefer extended tooth pain
over
surgery number one amputation song
19th century thankfully the original
chainsaw
invented in the 1830s by scottish
doctors
john aitken and james jeffrey is far
from what you'd pick up
at home depot to cut your neighbors i
mean your own trees down with the
chainsaw was originally used for
symphysiotomies an outdated surgical
procedure where
cartilage of the pubic symphysis is
divided to
widen the pelvis in order to deliver a
newborn more safely
it was common practice up until the
1930s when caesarean sections
drastically became more safe
by the 1950s it was considered taboo
but was still carried out knowingly and
unknowingly
until as late as the 1980s
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a like i wonder if blowing smoke up your
butt
gives you puffy cheeks all i know is
that i don't want to be behind that
person when the smoke clears
you know what i mean just the same
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