10 Crazy Medical Inventions That Never Caught On - Neatorama

Mark of the blog Life Support has pictures and descriptions of ten unusual medical inventions that were either pointless or dangerous to anyone who would use them. Among them is the 1935 Old Age Rejuvenator Centrifuge, which claims to reverse the effects of aging by counteracting the effects of gravity on the human body.

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The people who designed that didn't believe it would work, but they believed they could line their pockets with money from naive people who did. There were crooks back then just like today. They just have to be a bit more careful about committing outright fraud. See the modern "Hawaii Chair" commercial on Youtube as an example.

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The balloon invention is how certain obesity surgeries actually work.

Bad research by the author :(

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Balloon Surgery (thankfully) never caught on.
"This old type of bariatric surgery is no longer performed as it has been superceded by more popular obesity surgeries such as adjustable gastric banding (AGB), like Lap-Band® and Sleeve Gastrectomy."

http://www.annecollins.com/diets/obesity-stomach-balloon.htm

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Old age centrifuge? So...the effects of aging are reversed by making people pass out? :-/

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Don't they have this at carnivals? I went on one a long time ago and was happy to have survived it so yes, I can see why you'd feel younger (and so alive!)

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Non only that, but you can make androids of people using that technique.

It was on Star Trek, so it must be true.

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