We all suffer from one very common thing and that is fear of dying, fear of surgeries and we hate visiting the doctors. In today’s era when medical treatments, medicines, and equipment have advanced so much, yet we pray, that the need doesn’t arise to encounter them. Just imagine those early days, when there was a scarcity of medical treatments, with plenty of sicknesses, diseases, plagues flying in the air, due to wars and battles happening all over the world. We come to understand how terrifying those early medical days were through some captivating vintage images.
Today, when we look back at all those amazing pieces of innovation of that time, which looks terrifying for us today, but for them, it was their only hope and savior. 100 years from now people will have the same viewpoints in regard to all the medical stuff of today. Hence, we need to be grateful for what is available and opt for it when required.
1. A vintage image of babies being treated for winter rickets, which involved tanning at an orphanage in Chicago in 1925.
2. In 1920 this is how hands-off physiotherapy used to be at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
3. This is a European birthing chair in 1750, which was also adjustable.
4. An injured boy is wheeling around in an “invalid rolling cart” in 1915.
5. A vintage image of a medical heroin bottle developed and sold by Bayer in 1890.
6. A captivating image showing a pro-PET headgear used for studying the working brain.
7. A personal pressure chamber of Winston Churchill, which enabled him to make high-altitude flights safely.
8. This artificial kidney machine in 1950 looks a little terrifying.
9. To keep hold of children in one place during x-rays, this Roentgen steed was designed in 1957.
10. A terrifying looking machine, that was used to stimulate blood circulation in the legs.
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