Surgeries of the 1930s – Not for the faint hearted!
Posted by Science Oxford on October 7, 2009 | comments
Wired Science have put together a collection of videos of surgeries from the 1930’s. I’ve embedded a couple of them below but for the full collection you should go and see their website.
Be warned these videos are graphic and not for the faint hearted.
Prefrontal Tuberculoma
Removal of Tonsils and Adenoids
Visit this page »In this collection of silent films from the 1930s, surgeons from the British Medical Association demonstrate how to remove an enormous ovarian tumor, excise tuberculosis from the brain and deliver a baby by Caesarean section.
Some aspects of the 1930s operating room don’t look so different from what you might see today — scalpels, forceps and patient draping haven’t changed much — but of course there’s no electrocautery device to stop bleeding or laparoscopic camera for minimally invasive surgery. And today you might get in trouble for dropping your surgical instruments in boiling water! The videos are part of a collection of historical images and films hosted by the Wellcome Library and recently made available to the public via their YouTube channel.
Article Credit: Wired Science
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