Terrifying Surgical Tools of Old

By Queuebot in Health on Jul 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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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by yugosakimi.


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  1. Xinavera
    Jul 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.

  2. Ajan
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    Scary!! Were they effective??

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

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

  4. PeteRepeat42
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am

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

  5. scaryhairy
    Apr 11th, 2010 at 3:41 am

    uhh id raher hav a swollen ass thn have some jack the rippa wannab rip my hemroids ou wih a jagged chain lmao


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