Early Medical Tools

Early Medical Instruments at the National Institutes of …

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Early Medical Instruments at the National Institutes of Health The Collection. The Stetten Museum preserves more than 3200 instruments in its collection. Because of limited space, only a small portion can be displayed. The following exhibit …

20 Fascinating Medical Instruments of Yore

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As these devices became more socially accepted, design took on much more elaborate forms. Surgical …

14 Tools That Changed Medicine | Discover Magazine

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Timeline of Medical Tools and Techniques - Soliant Health

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This extremely important medical tool was introduced in the 1970s. CAT scans take detailed x-rays to form 3-D images of any part of a person’s body and detect …

20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools - Surgical Technology

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Skull Saw (1830s-60s) This hand-cranked saw’s blades were used to cut through sections of the skull, allowing for access by other instruments. Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s …

7 Unusual Ancient Medical Techniques

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1. Bloodletting. For thousands of years, medical practitioners clung to the belief that sickness was merely the result of a little “bad blood.”. Bloodletting …

7 of the most gruesome medical devices in history - STAT

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Here are seven of the more cringe-inducing instruments from medicine’s past. 1. Artificial leeches. When in the 1800s live leeches were unavailable, or perhaps …

16 Medical Procedures and Devices from …

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Medical devices from the early part of the 1900s looked like torture devices dreamed up by the devil himself. They were so bizarre looking in some cases, that medieval torture …

10 Terrifying Historic Medical Instruments

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10 Osteotome. While technically a type of chain saw, this medical instrument, invented by Bernard Heine around 1830, wasn’t used to cut down trees. The …