Creepy medical devices of the beginning of the last century (7 photos)

The history of medicine is a hard bloody and often misguided path. But thanks to him, it developed and saved millions of lives.





However, some things created for the medical use, cause nervous itching and goosebumps. Such as x-ray machine for continuous transillumination of the chest. It is scary to imagine what dose of radiation the patient received ... But about the dangers no one knew about radiation then.

X-ray 1914



This is how the x-ray procedure went for a little more than a hundred years ago. The photo was taken at the Cochin Hospital in Paris - Dr. Maxim Menard examines the patient's chest.

Inhaler



This is what one of the first inhalers in history looked like. This is 1919.

Electrocardiograph



This is what the company's first ever electrocardiograph looked like Cambridge Scientific Instruments. So you don't know right away what it is. such.

Improvement of blood circulation



The patient dips his arms and legs into saline baths and through this the solution was given an electric current. The blood immediately began to run through the veins faster.

Solarium



It looks a bit like a coffin, but it's an "electric bath" preceded by the solarium familiar to us. That's how you get a tan women in 1900.

Treatment for cervical osteochondrosis



With the help of such an apparatus, the patient independently stretched himself.