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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The 8 Best Animal Tools

Posted by Robert Birming in Animal on January 19, 2009 at 8:47 am

Brandon Keim over at Wired Science has compiled a list of some of “the most interesting animal tool use yet observed”.

…after digging a water hole, elephants will strip bark from a tree, chew it into a ball, then use it to fill the hole. Once the top has been covered with sand, the elephant has an evaporation-resistant canteen.

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