Terrifying Surgical Tools of Old

Posted by Queuebot in Medicine on July 2, 2009 at 3:57 pm


Think your health care plan is bad? Consider yourself lucky that you don’t live back in the middle ages when "advanced" surgeries were done using these 20 seriously scary surgical tools. Yikes.

This one to the left is the Arrow Remover:

Arrow Remover – Not much is known about this tool, but it is hypothesized that it was inserted into the wound in a contracted position, with the central shaft used to grasp the arrow. The blades, which appear to have their sharp edges facing outward, were then expanded using the scissor-like handles…

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7 comments to "Terrifying Surgical Tools of Old"

  1. vonskippy
    July 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Ouch!

  2. Xinavera
    July 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Shocking, but honestly not that much worse than what we have today... with the obvious difference that today's procedures are done under anesthesia. Ever seen the saw used to remove casts or the vacuum used to extract babies? Scary looking indeed.

  3. Ajan
    July 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    Scary!! Were they effective??

  4. emmiline valentine
    July 3rd, 2009 at 12:38 am

    sweet baby jesus, i'd have rather stayed sick!

  5. Christophe
    July 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 am

    yuck

  6. PeteRepeat42
    July 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am

    My health care plan is a handful of Excedrin PM and a Colt 45

  7. GailW
    July 3rd, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Yowza!


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