20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools - Surgical Technologist

While these tools and how we imagine they were used seems altogether primitive, especially since we often imagine that there was little in the way of anesthesia and the infections that routinely set in with their use often did more harm than the original problem, they should just be viewed as... more

Reviewed by zimpf Jul 05, 01:07pm ( 274 reviews ) • surgicaltechnologists.net

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Rated by TianYi1 on Oct 19, 11:04pm

Wow.
Rated by Wobbles on Oct 14, 9:19am

100 years from now they'll be looking at our current surgical tools in horror as well. 500 years ago people would have killed for this stuff. Everything's relative.
Rated by noisha on Oct 13, 2:28am

OK, this will make you sick but you can't help but look and imagine the pain these things have inflicted, all in the name of medicine and making you better... hahaha... if you live it would be a miracle.
Rated by impertinent on Oct 10, 8:10pm

From the page: "Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s) The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient's rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase "blow smoke up one's ass."
Rated by kingevx on Sep 25, 10:50am

You know half those tools don't look so bad! HaHa j/k that stuff is sick "blowing smoke up one's ass" wtf man!
Rated by PenguinSusieQ on Sep 23, 4:34pm

Whoa! Makes me thankful to be in the here & now!
Rated by thestripedone on Sep 21, 2:22pm

Goddamn I'm glad I wasn't around back then.
Reviewed by TwoWorlds on Sep 21, 1:14am

Damn...that circumcision knife made me GLAD I'm uncut for once :-/

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