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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic 18:54 - Jan 26 with 5330 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

Some images taken from the Wellcome library of medical procedures manual from the 19th Century...

And all WITHOUT anaesthetics so the patient is conscious and feels all the pain! A collection of these has been put together by Richard Barnett for his book 'Crucial Interventions'. The birth of modern medicine is pretty fascinating as well as horrific.


Eye Surgery


Finger amputation



Here's a jaw reconstruction


The first phase of an arm amputation


Foot amputation



Gall stone and obstruction removal


Leg amputation


Birth intervention or circumcision


Removal of a tumour from the tongue
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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 19:25 - Jan 26 with 5273 viewsmorningstar

Congratulations! Youv'e just provided Loyal with some great w*nking material!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 19:33 - Jan 26 with 5260 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

Oh.....

my bad!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 19:48 - Jan 26 with 5233 viewsmorningstar

I found it very interesting though. In a horrific sense of course.

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 19:55 - Jan 26 with 5218 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

It's crazy the pain these people had to go through, yet it was all necessary and done in the only way possible based on the knowledge available. Birth of modern medicine!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 20:03 - Jan 26 with 5199 viewsmorningstar

We don't know how lucky we are to live in modern times. But I actually find it quite amazing that they could identify some of these medical problems without the benefit of x-rays!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 20:07 - Jan 26 with 5193 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

Unfortunately it was trial and error. Some died while others survived. Techniques were improved based on survival percentages.

Even basic procedures we take for granted today was dicing with death in the 19th Century.

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 20:18 - Jan 26 with 5178 viewsmorningstar

I sure as hell wouldn't have liked to have been the first person to be diagnosed with gallstones that's for sure! Though without getting to deep, it really makes you wonder how the human race made it this far considering our limited reproductive capabilities and fragility!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:18 - Jan 26 with 5140 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

We're surprisingly not as fragile as you think. Lose a leg, we carry on and adjust to this change. Lose an eye, we just use the one. Become blind, we adapt and use our other senses.

We're the product of millions of years of evolution. We're not perfect - far from it, but we're far from weak and easily broken.

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:21 - Jan 26 with 5133 viewsSwanjaxs

Exactly mate.... but lose a game and we all go into meltdown. ..😂

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:24 - Jan 26 with 5124 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

Whoah, whoah, whoah...!

We've not evolved far enough for that yet mate!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:24 - Jan 26 with 5123 viewsdickythorpe

That jaw reconstruction diagram is very graphic and close to how they were thinking of cutting a tumour out of a mate of mine.
Fortunately, and after he had stopped wailing the oncologist said, " we haven't had your results yet and probably would try radiotherapy first"
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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:28 - Jan 26 with 5121 viewsphact0rri

good finds! I actually am writing a novel in the 1920's in the USA and some of the crazy cancer treatments back then!

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Medical procedures in the 19th Century - Lucky we live in 21st Century! *Graphic on 21:33 - Jan 26 with 5111 viewsEvenThisNameIsTaken

some treatments may even have been worse than those listed above.

My eyes watered after nose surgery; when sliding huge plastic bits and tampon like padding out of my nose and a minute of not being able to breathe properly due to the blood going down my throat. Would I handle having reconstruction on my jaw in the 19th Century??.... Have no idea - glad I don't have to either.

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