Retro shots of what medicine was like in the past (21 photos)

It's good that we live in the days of MRI and laser surgery - I think after looking at these photos. In the past, doctors came up with different treatments, and some of them seem quite creepy. Let's look at some vintage footage of what medicine used to be sometime.





Electric bath from 1910. Then doctors tried to treat rheumatism with electricity and water.



The Gentleman's Guide to Amputation Always Ends with Brandy



Respirator mask during the Spanish flu epidemic, late 1910s



The patient uses an inhalation machine with drugs supposedly relieving flu symptoms



Queue for a spoonful of fish oil. England, 1960



"Women's Medicine" - essentially a tonic that relieved women of pain during menstruation



Iron lungs - machines used to treat polio patients



Another device that helps to breathe with polio



Dental drill with foot drive. The first one was invented in 1871 in the USA.



Kit for using leeches for medicinal purposes



plague masks



Women dentists, 1909






One of the early prostheses, 1890-1900



Children are treated for rickets with sunburn



Device for increasing height, 1931



Children on examination at the school dentist, 1935



Device for home rhinoplasty, 1944



Container for blood transfusion, 1978



One of the first x-ray machines