Get Your Medical History On.
As a forewarning, this entry could be considered gross to some!
1907: Medical Humor or Morbid Truth? You decide!
Damn, I love medical history. This is an image from 1907 (supposedly); med students with a cadaver.
Oh ho ho!
Then, I've been browsing one of my favorite websites today all about Civil War medical/surgical practices! So much interesting information. HERE, LET ME SHARE:
A trepanning set from 1830...! Mildly related, I will forever be searching the internet for a spare leucotome or orbitoclast to add to my small collection of medical antiquities. :/
Text from a manual on how to sew sutures. Click the image to open the full excerpt of text. Fascinatingly enough, my mom taught me the art of removing sutures (simple, yes, but I do believe that there is an art to it.); she taught me on her arm.
We're moving on to amputations now. If you are sensitive to medical diagrams on how to lop off limbs, look away...!
Taken from the same book as the suture text; click image to be liked to the full text of the page. I suppose I never really thought about how one would go about getting their leg taken off, but having to endure the pain of the surgeons filleting the skin beneath the point of amputation to create flaps to close the wound with must have been... dreadful. Even with the early anesthesia (chloroform, of course).
I really love all the drawings of people with knives in their extremities. The next one is the best.
Click for an image of the full text from the page.
Pemphigus (a type of blister) and Rupia (syphilis sores).
Fascinating!
1907: Medical Humor or Morbid Truth? You decide!
Damn, I love medical history. This is an image from 1907 (supposedly); med students with a cadaver.
Oh ho ho!
Then, I've been browsing one of my favorite websites today all about Civil War medical/surgical practices! So much interesting information. HERE, LET ME SHARE:
A trepanning set from 1830...! Mildly related, I will forever be searching the internet for a spare leucotome or orbitoclast to add to my small collection of medical antiquities. :/
Text from a manual on how to sew sutures. Click the image to open the full excerpt of text. Fascinatingly enough, my mom taught me the art of removing sutures (simple, yes, but I do believe that there is an art to it.); she taught me on her arm.
We're moving on to amputations now. If you are sensitive to medical diagrams on how to lop off limbs, look away...!
Taken from the same book as the suture text; click image to be liked to the full text of the page. I suppose I never really thought about how one would go about getting their leg taken off, but having to endure the pain of the surgeons filleting the skin beneath the point of amputation to create flaps to close the wound with must have been... dreadful. Even with the early anesthesia (chloroform, of course).
I really love all the drawings of people with knives in their extremities. The next one is the best.
Click for an image of the full text from the page.
Pemphigus (a type of blister) and Rupia (syphilis sores).
Fascinating!