I don’t know about you, but I have always admired doctors. If, of course, these are the very doctors who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the health of others, and not people in white coats who want to enrich themselves at the expense of other people's problems. But first of all, I was always surprised by the patience of the people of this profession. This is how many horrors they saw in their lives! It's hard to even imagine …
Now imagine where medicine began. How many mistakes had to be made to reach the level that this science has reached now. Surely every word in medical textbooks is written in blood.
Today we invite you to look at illustrations from the book of the historian Richard Barnett "Operational Intervention. Illustrated treatise on the principles and practice of surgery in the 19th century. " It depicts quite colorfully how scary the surgical intervention looked at that time. Be warned that illustrations can be shocking!
Scotsman Robert Liston performs one of the first operations in Britain under general anesthesia. This professional worked with a knife. And it took him 3 minutes to amputate his leg
Surgeon's tools
Promotional video:
Cross section of the human brain
Surgical correction of strabismus
Surgery for tongue cancer
Removal of the lower jaw
Pinching the arteries to reduce blood loss during surgery
Muscles of the wrist
Anatomy of the armpit and the blood vessel next to it
Two types of caesarean section
Ligation of an artery in the groin using stitches and a hook, as well as squeezing the abdomen to reduce blood flow to the aorta
Toe amputation techniques
Agree, it all looks pretty creepy. But despite this, it was interesting for me to get acquainted with these illustrations.
Ruslan Golovatyuk