Weird Antique Medical Devices

A dozen bizarre devices from medicine's dark past | New …

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Jugum penis, United Kingdom, 1880-1920 Guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes of at least half our readers, this device was intended as a treatment for "nocturnal incontinence" and to prevent...

Strange Antique Medical Devices That Promised to Cure ... - Wired

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They include violet ray wands, magnetos, and something called the Elec-Treat mechanical heart, a handheld device that could …

22 Strange Medical Instruments From the Past That …

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Pre-PET headgear (Positron Emission Tomography), built by the Brookhaven National …

Horrifying Ancient Medical Devices That Were Actually …

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The 18th century French device was used to remove kidney stones, a process during which a medical practitioner inserted a metal rod in your urethra as a …

8 Terrifying Instruments Old-Time Doctors Used on Your …

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Beautiful But Deadly: The Creepiest Devices From …

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Not surprisingly, Blaufox’s collection trails off after the one-two punch of Germ Theory and the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, which began to regulate patent medicines and crank contraptions that yielded no real …

These 7 antique medical devices will make you shudder

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Surprisingly, a lot of these devices were thought to be useful in their era, long before the U.S. FDA started preapproving devices (which wasn’t until the 1970s). You may have heard of the Relaxacizor, but …

10 Terrifying Historic Medical Instruments - Listverse

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10 Terrifying Historic Medical Instruments. Stem cell research, 3-D printed organs, genetically modified viruses—there’s no doubt we’re living in a world none of our ancestors could have imagined. …

20 Weird And Terrifying Medical Instruments From the …

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In the history of medicine, machines became crucial parts of the diagnostic and treatment process in the first half of the 20th century. Scientists and doctors experimented with some really strange devices, …

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

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That didn’t stop other unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent salesmen, who also started traveling the American West, peddling bottles of fake snake oil, giving the truly beneficial medical...