The road to modern medicine has definitely been a very long one. It’s no secret that traditional medicine used to look a lot different a few decades, or even centuries back. Now we have proper, advanced equipment which can cure even the most deadly diseases out there, but it wasn’t always like this.
If we go back in time, medicine was a constant journey, where a lot of mistakes and errors have been made in order to pave the way to scientific discoveries, such as Alexander Fleming’s invention of penicillin. This wonder drug definitely improved our life here on Earth.
But that’s not the case for all discoveries, because some of the historical medical devices are not only bizarre and weird looking, but they’re also dangerous and very painful. Read on to discover the 12 medical devices you won’t believe were actually used on people!
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