17th Century Medical Tools

Medicine in Colonial North America

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Examples include an early 18th-century book of remedies kept by Benjamin Wadsworth, eighth president of Harvard College, in which he recommended grated chocolate to stop a bleeding wound; a mid-18th-century journal of medical conditions and treatments kept by …

20 Fascinating Medical Instruments of Yore

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Surgical instruments from the 16th and 17th century. Left row: lithotomy dilator, 16th century; dental forceps; …

Medical History — The Seventeenth Century

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Not until about a century later did the thermometer become an integral part of medical practice. The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-44) in 1742 …

Ten weird and terrifying medical instruments …

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Here is a list of a few of my favourites. Nothing quite says medicine like a syringe. And this collection has …

20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools - Surgical Technology

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The Pirate Surgeon's Journal 17th/18th Century Tools …

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Pirate Surgeon History Pirate Surgeon's Quarters Golden Age Pirate Surgeon Surgical Procedures Amputation Animal Bite & Sting Wounds Autopsy & Burial Bullet & …

7 Unusual Ancient Medical Techniques

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Influential physicians like Hippocrates and Galen maintained that the human body was filled with four basic substances, or “humors”—yellow bile, black bile, …

15 Medical Inventions And Discoveries of …

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The first 'hearing aids' were created in the 17th Century. These consisted of basic ear trumpets that directed sounds in front of the ear whilst blocking other …

Weird and Wonderful Medicine in 17th and …

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And a volume first published in 1618, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, offers a fascinating and detailed insight into what used to be considered ‘medicinal’ in seventeenth …

7 Scary Surgical Instruments | Britannica

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surgical tools Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The speculum oculi (B in the illustration), an instrument whose popularity seems to have peaked in the 18th century, consisted of a …