20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools
Posted by MarkYou might think your HMO plan is scary, but at least it doesn't use these vintage surgical instruments...hopefully.
Amputation Knife (1700s)
Knives used for amputations during the 18th century were typically curved, because surgeons tended to make a circular cut through the skin and muscle before the bone was cut with a saw. By the 1800s, straight knives became more popular because they made it easier to leave a flap of skin that could be used to cover the exposed stump.
Amputation Saw (1600s)
While some surgeons chose to flaunt their wealth with elaborately decorated saws like this, the crevices in the intricate engravings proved to be a breeding ground for germs.
Arrow Remover (1500s)
Not much is known about this tool, but it is hypothesized that it was inserted into the wound in a contracted position, with the central shaft used to grasp the arrow. The blades, which appear to have their sharp edges facing outward, were then expanded using the scissor-like handles, thus expanding the flesh around the arrow to prevent the arrowhead from ripping through the meat as it was pulled out.
Artificial Leech (1800s)
Bloodletting with leeches was such a popular treatment for a range of medical conditions that an artificial leech was invented in 1840 and was used frequently in eye and ear surgery. The rotating blades would cut a wound in the patient's skin, while the cylinder would be used to produce a vacuum that sucked up the blood.
Bullet Extractor (1500s)
Elongated bullet extractors could reach bullets embedded deeply in the patient's body. Extractors like this one had a screw tip that could be inserted in the wound and lengthened to pierce the bullet so that it could be pulled out.
Cervical Dilator (1800s)
This instrument was used to dilate a woman's cervix during labor, with the amount of dilation measured on the scale by the handle. Such dilators fell out of favor because they often caused the cervix to tear. 
Circumcision Knife (1770s)
Ritual circumcision is performed around the world in varying extents and for varying reasons, but few instruments used in the process are as intimidating as this European knife from the 18th century.
Ecraseur (1870s)
This ecraseur was used to sever hemorrhoids and uterine or ovarian tumors. The chain was looped over the mass and tightened using the ratchet, stopping the circulation of blood to the area.
Hemorrhoid Forceps (1800s)
These forceps were used to grasp a hemorrhoid between the blades and apply pressure to stop the blood supply, causing the hemorrhoid to drop off.
Hernia Tool (1850s)
This unique tool was used after the restoration of a hernia. It was inserted into the body near the affected area and left there for a week to produce scar tissue that would help seal off the hernia. 
Hirtz Compass (1915)
The Hirtz compass was used to accurately determine where bullets were located in the body so that they could then be removed with precision. 
Hysterotome/Metrotome (1860s-90s)
This hysterotome or metrotome was used to amputate the cervix during a hysterectomy.
Lithotome (1740s-1830s)
This lithotome was used to cut the bladder in order to remove stones. The shaft contained a hidden blade that was inserted into the bladder and then released using a spring handle.
Mouth Gag (1880s-1910s)
This wooden, screw-shaped mouth gag would be inserted into an anesthetized patient's mouth to keep the airway open.
Scarificator (1910s-20s)
Scarificators were used in bloodletting. The spring-loaded blades in this device would cut into the skin, and a special rounded glass cup could be applied over the wound. When warmed, it would help draw the blood out at a faster rate.
Skull Saw (1830s-60s)
This hand-cranked saw's blades were used to cut through sections of the skull, allowing for access by other instruments.
Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s)
The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient's rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase "blow smoke up one's ass."
Tonsil Guillotine (1860s)
This method of removing tonsils worked much like a traditional guillotine, slicing off the infected tonsils. This "double guillotine" design meant that both tonsils could be removed at the same time. Tonsil guillotines were replaced by forceps and scalpels in the early 20th century due to the high rate of hemorrhaging and the imprecise nature of the device, which often left tonsil remnants in the mouth.
Trephine (1800s)
This trephine was a hand-powered drill with a cylindrical blade that was used to bore into the skull. The spike in the center was used to start the procedure and to hold the blade in place while cutting.
Vaginal Speculum (1600s)
Specula have been used for thousands of years to allow doctors better vision and access to the vaginal area (or other body cavities) by expanding after insertion. This 17th century European example, which appears to use a cranking motion to expand, is more ornate and intimidating than most.
Posted by Peter on 30/6/09
Ah, those Victorians. Excuse me while I faint out of shock.
Posted by fuzzarelly on 2/7/09
And remember – no anesthetics! Holy Moly on a stick, these things are scary. Yet, interesting.
Posted by Roger on 2/7/09
When you first saw that amputation knife, how many of you thought of the Fruit Loops Bird? “Oot Fray Oopslay?”
Posted by G host on 2/7/09
His name was Toucan Sam – geeeeez…
You’d follow that nose whether you liked it or not.
Posted by mob man on 2/7/09
Dang! Glad things have changed!
Posted by robb on 3/7/09
pheeww.
im glad i didnt live in those days.
scariest one will be amputation saw with engravings plus germs
Posted by james been on 3/7/09
in two hundred years our scalpels and fingers up the ass procedures will look just as brutal
Posted by daffy on 3/7/09
My dad took my tonsils out with a single version of the tonsil guillotine on the kitchen table when I was 6. Times change.
Posted by ithurtswhenipee on 3/7/09
@daffy
No surgery by dad, unless he happens to be a surgeon and with an operating table not the kitchen table.
Posted by Doumy on 3/7/09
Nice post, thanks for sharing!
Posted by tevon on 3/7/09
Oh man. Good stuff…
Posted by lilmoorman on 3/7/09
i choked and put my hand on my throat when i saw the tonsil guillotine
Posted by Brett on 3/7/09
Horrible man horrible.
Posted by JoanieGirl on 3/7/09
As a surgical nurse, I can’t wait to print these out to show to our surgeons! My husband almost fainted when I showed him the circumcision knife……he’s going in for his circ in a few days…LOL!!
Posted by Milosz4 on 3/7/09
Though the skull saw kinda kicks ass.
Posted by xznophod on 3/7/09
the Hirtz compass was for iron shrapnel, lead shot isn’t magnetic
Posted by Fribble on 3/7/09
Oh god, the Tonsil Guillotine looks terrifying…
Posted by Frostbite on 3/7/09
Fuck yeah
Posted by kelli on 3/7/09
And I’m afraid of needles now. lol.
Posted by Crazy People I've Worked With on 3/7/09
Very glad to be in modern times…
Posted by undrgrndgirl on 3/7/09
actually, mob man, things HAVEN’T changed that much…there are some pretty gruesome looking medical tools in use right now!
Posted by ana on 3/7/09
Everyone of these pictures made me cringe.
Posted by abrow522 on 3/7/09
“Hysterotome/Metrotome (1860s-90s)
This hysterotome or metrotome was used to amputate the cervix during a hysterectomy.”
would you even want to have sex after that!? what’s the point!?
Posted by Gigi on 3/7/09
Uh, cervix, not clitoris. It’s a frightening tool, but hysterectomies seem to be a viable option occasionally. Have not heard a good reason to remove the clitoris, though we know it’s still happening. *shudder*scrub
Posted by Richard Bolens on 4/7/09
What’s up doc ?
Posted by vote veg on 4/7/09
well with out these early tools and pioniers ,just as scary .
Posted by justcallmepip on 4/7/09
JoanieGirl—Your husband is about to be circumcised and you showed him that?! And then LAUGHED about his response?
That’s messed up. The foreskin is the most richly enervated part of the penis. Of course he’s freaking out. He’s about to lose a beautiful and sensitive part of himself.
Posted by RJ Evans on 4/7/09
Just when I get a little down about the times in which we live I read an article like this and I am much, much happier! These instruments look naaaasty!
Posted by Hodero on 4/7/09
the tonsil guillotine(1860) is still in daily use in the Netherlands.
Posted by NickyBiggs on 4/7/09
Dude Imagine some1 using the skull saw and driling into your head while your consicous with no pain medicines
Posted by walker on 4/7/09
The dentist I attended when I was a child had an ‘interesting” museum of ancient dental tools in his waiting room. I think now that it made the out of date rubbish he used in the surgery look somehow OK……what a jerk.
Posted by NYChika-Steph on 4/7/09
Every one of these pictures made me get goosebumps!
The knifes and saws and pointy scary looking devices kind of make you wonder if the people in that era werent actually a little masochist or sadistic!
and by the way Hodero, i almost fainted at ur comment!
Posted by Uncle B on 4/7/09
Good stuff! Our great grandparents suffered through this? We have come a long way! Please find more like these, just to remind us how good it really really is!
Posted by Pickles. on 4/7/09
@ NickyBiggs, That would be the least painful one actually. Their are no pain receptors in the skull, making brain surgery painless, even without Anethestics. Most brain surgery’s have their paitents awake.
Posted by Shran on 4/7/09
Mom… MOM…
Can we have a few of those for our SM cellar ?
Posted by Tim on 4/7/09
they all look very painfull !!!!
Posted by Fay on 4/7/09
Honestly,,I find all these devices fascinating..I would love to have them all (I would never use them of course.) and there where pain killers..booze and lots of it. or well..you just hope the pain of the original injury knocked you out first.
Posted by Dr Lagarde on 4/7/09
Most of these tools are somewhat similar or at least precursors of what we use today in many surgeries. At least those guys had balls to try it! jejeje crazy fuckers!
Posted by Mike on 4/7/09
Yikes!!! Bring me back to the 22nd century!
Posted by Tampa Area Guide on 4/7/09
Gruesome! I liked learning where the popular phrase “blow smoke up one’s ass” came from.
Posted by Kent on 4/7/09
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH.
Posted by ramblinrose on 4/7/09
OUCH!
Posted by Gerald on 4/7/09
I’m glad I didn’t have a Victorian vagina, let’s put it that way
Posted by Ravenix on 4/7/09
D: I’m so glad I’m a 21st-Century female!
Posted by haidukul on 4/7/09
..and these instruments were used in civilized countries. How about the rest of the world? Who knows what devices they had..
Posted by Kelly on 4/7/09
Gerald – I couldn’t have said it better myself. That speculum makes me want to stitch my legs together!
Posted by jstema on 4/7/09
JESUS CHRIST
Posted by tbeast on 4/7/09
….and no one thought to mention the tobbacco smoke up the ass for the revival of drowning!
awesome!
Posted by SilverRain on 4/7/09
i am so glad modern medicine has evolved since these tools
Posted by me on 4/7/09
Anyone reminded of the gynecological tools form te film Dead Ringers?
Posted by Jess on 4/7/09
Fay— I don’t know if they used booze as a pain killer while doing surgery. I believe alcohol is a blood thinner (that’s why you are not allowed to be under the influence while getting a tattoo).
Posted by missa on 4/7/09
i almost lost my supper to this. and to think i freaked at the oral surgeon’s equipment…
Posted by Bobby on 4/7/09
Damn, I’d hate to be under surgery in those days. Lucky we’ve improved since than to a point where we don’t feel scared to go through with it.
Posted by Zach on 4/7/09
I used that vagina spreader on my wife she moaned like crazy
Posted by Shannon on 4/7/09
geez people…don’t be so harsh! at least they were thoughtful enough to decorate some of these torture tools!
Posted by jazzballs on 4/7/09
Hasn’t opium as a pain killer been around for centuries? Plus I think they used to use this nice stuff called laudanum (opium tincture) as a pain killer also. Anyway, a little bit of pain never hurt anyone!
Posted by kelly on 4/7/09
yikes
Posted by matt on 4/7/09
ya those tools are scary but i actually had my toenail cut down the middle and ripped out without anesthetic and that hurt as the most pain ive ver felt and i was shaking afterwards….those were some dumb ass doctors who don’t know how to use a needle to apply local anesthetic, btw ur feet are one of the most sensative part of ur body, then ur nails are even more sensative on top of that i got close to the worst
Posted by Fooley on 4/7/09
That screw one didnt mention the worst part. It WAS used to keep the airway open…on patients where lockjaw had set in. It was jammed between the teeth, then screwed in to open the mouth more.
Posted by Davo on 4/7/09
There is a great book called ‘Great Medical Disasters’, written by Englishman, Doctor Richard Gordon. It is full of true occurrences that will give you goosbumps. Dr Gordon is the same guy who wrote: Doctor In The House, Doctor At Large, Doctor At Sea — and a host of other books based on his real-life experiences as a General Practicioner (MD to you Yanks, I guess). Most were made into old comedy movies in black and white.
Posted by Rissa on 4/7/09
These Images Have Made Me Beleive That I Will Have Awful Terrifying Nightmare Tonight. My Whole Body Hurts Now.
Posted by Phil E. Drifter on 4/7/09
Mmm…vagina speculum
Posted by hepkess on 5/7/09
I recall a horror movie, I thought it was by John Carpenter, (I checked IMDB; couldn’t find it) from around 1995 or so about twin doctors that invente grisly instruments for surgery. This was scarier!
TK
Posted by noone on 5/7/09
I don’t want any of those near me! Lol
Posted by mystikal on 5/7/09
OOOOOO Kind of looks like things for a horror movie. How INSANE!!!!
Posted by Pieter on 5/7/09
I know doctors who may as well still be using these charming instruments. It would make little difference to their effectiveness as a healer. At least one would get a little entertainment before dying….
Posted by Michael on 5/7/09
The movie mentioned by hepkess… DEAD RINGERS with Jeremy Irons in a role as two twins who became gynacologists. Great movie but disturbing. The problem is anesthesia… and then waking up. Give me one, not the other please.
Posted by David Sutherland on 5/7/09
Here are some more scary instruments…
http://www.abortioninstruments.com/new_index.html#instruments
Posted by eilidh on 5/7/09
These actually made me recoil in horror. Its hard to say which one is the most disturbing.
Posted by blutoband on 5/7/09
ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!!
Posted by Heather on 5/7/09
Nitrous oxide, guys. Keep you laughing all the way through surgery. :)
By the way, @Pickles, while it is true that there are no pain receptors in the brain itself, there are plenty of nerve endings in the scalp and skull, so having someone saw into your head would be pretty damn painful.
Posted by Heather on 5/7/09
Nitrous oxide, guys. Keep you laughing all the way through surgery. :)
By the way, @Pickles, while it is true that there are no pain receptors in the brain itself, there are plenty of nerve endings in the scalp and skull, so having someone saw into your head would be pretty damn painful.
Posted by dantour on 5/7/09
As a fiction writer (historical and fantasy both), this is priceless information to learn. It’s also horrifying and gag-inducing, but fascinating nevertheless!
Posted by Bev on 5/7/09
Cringe & double yikes
Posted by Alley Cat on 5/7/09
This is disturbing yet morbidly fascinating.
Posted by Athena on 5/7/09
SKULL SAW (see above, way above), the name alone made me want to puke!
Posted by Athena on 5/7/09
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS!!!
Posted by Mel on 5/7/09
Actually, some forms of anesthetics were available when these tools were in use. Nitrous Oxide, for instance, was used during the 19th century. Prior to that, physicians used opium, alcohol, and other substances to induce unconsciousness or relieve pain in their patients. Not as effective or safe as anesthetics and analgesics today for sure, but better than thinking of these tools being used on a sober person!
Posted by urchin63 on 5/7/09
What?, are you all a bunch of pansys? The patients receiving the effects of these instruments just hoped to be mended.
Posted by Trin on 5/7/09
WTF?! lol i almost puked when i saw the Trephine, it freaked me out. the artificial leech and the cervical dilator also completely grossed me out. the circumcision knife looked brutal and so did the amputation saw lol.
@urchin63
thats true but remember that some people are more sensitive to stuff like this than others so it doesnt particularly mean that they are pansys.
My mother was a veterinary surgeon and she was always doing operations, even with me in the push chair beside her but i still find these freaky
Posted by margaret on 5/7/09
HOLY HELL SO GLAD FOR MODERN DAYS SERIOUS OUCH ..SCARY
Posted by jan on 5/7/09
speaking form a female point of view, i can confirm that vaginal dilators have not improved that much
Posted by Martin Lewis on 5/7/09
The stuff of nightmares!
Posted by Me on 5/7/09
I have a diploma on medieval medicine, believe… IT DOESN’T HURT :3
Posted by jazzyfresh on 5/7/09
I wanna see a horror film use all those tools (
_)lol
it would be pretty fucking rad
Posted by 1anomaly on 5/7/09
I believe these instruments were also used at Gitmo.
Posted by H.P. Lovecraft on 5/7/09
remember women where not considered important enough to worry about their safety and comfort.
Posted by omegasinnocence on 5/7/09
Scary shit right here D:
Posted by Ash on 5/7/09
@DavidSutherland-
I cried. X|
Posted by jack on 5/7/09
in the future i’m sure radiation treatments, glasses, hearing aids, having tubes tied, stirups etc will seem the exact same. Sign of the times is always at hand.
Posted by Valerie Pegg on 5/7/09
Whoa. Need I say more?
Posted by chris ronk on 5/7/09
Wow! I was just looking for a good bloodletting tool. Where do I get one?
Posted by Chozen One on 5/7/09
i just set a record for entry into the guinness book of explicit world records by funneling 4.5 quarts of human ejaculate through a beer bong and consuming it in a mere 8 seconds.
Posted by Manda on 5/7/09
interesting to think that those were the hightech tools of the day! sends a chill down the spine
Posted by Non-such on 5/7/09
@xznophod
The bullet compass isn’t magnetic. It was used to make a ‘best guess’ based on the point of entry of the bullet.
Posted by Susannah on 5/7/09
I cringed at every one of those.
Posted by Juju on 5/7/09
I actually had all four of my wisdom teeth removed with nitrous oxide only because the nurse couldn’t find a vein for the strong stuff. It was comparable to natural childbirth …the kind that comes on fast and hard aka precipitated labor. When I recovered I noticed that there were bits of bone from my jaw in between the curved roots of two of my teeth. I still remember crying and moaning while my whole body tensed and the plier like instrument he used and this was only 14 y/ago in the US. Of course, I was on Medicaid at the time.
Posted by memea on 5/7/09
oh god those make me sick and wow im glad im not a woman cuz those things look awful
Posted by Nakul on 6/7/09
OMG!!! felt completely nauseated just looking at these pics…has re-reinstated my faith in man-science and technology for sure.Thank you for reminding to be grateful for so much around us.
Posted by James on 6/7/09
Wow – great post, and nice photos. I think I would just pass on surgery if these were my only options.
Posted by aardvaark on 6/7/09
People were a hell of a lot tougher in those days than we are. Today if you get on owie on your fingie you get put on a 15 day disabled list.
Posted by WebmasterUSA on 6/7/09
Very interesting it is although the tools seem more appropriate for a vetrinary practice.
Posted by DarkSock on 6/7/09
I peed in a horse once.
Posted by titir sengupta on 6/7/09
eeks…this is so damn scary…!!!! cant believe this, that such instruments were used…glad i belong to the 21st century :)
Posted by Gary on 6/7/09
I particularly like the smoke enema and mouth gag.Hope they put some honey on that.
Posted by ujjo on 6/7/09
there is more, if you check out this website. http://collectmedicalantiques.com/collection.html
and i can’t believe anyone would have a circumcision in adulthood. barbaric enough that it happens to defenseless infants, why would anybody so brutally deface an adult?
Posted by Christy on 6/7/09
Absolutely terrifying. All of the feminine tools make me cringe. Especially the spring loaded ones…..AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Posted by caeur on 6/7/09
Ouch. Well, I’m happy I wasn’t a girl in the 1600s. O_o Vaginal exam – out of the question.
Posted by babette on 6/7/09
mon dieu!
Posted by Mayja Paypa on 6/7/09
this looks like a scene right out of saw
Posted by Olivia Mackintosh on 6/7/09
Oh my goodness mee.. i wonder how much pain all of them inncoent yet ill people would of gone through. and they were probably still awake. The question is……why ? xXx
Posted by Doctor Carol on 6/7/09
tHE VAginal speculum is almost like the one we use today
Posted by free on 6/7/09
the one use this stuff where butcher not doctors at all
Posted by Rupinder Kanwar on 6/7/09
Better follow a healthy lifestyle to avoid these being used on you once the worldwide recession makes modern tools too expensive to use.
Posted by Cords on 6/7/09
@jan
you took the words out of my mouth LOL
the instrument they use to break waters is almost exactly like the cervical dialator.
they all look fucked upbut the one i feel most ugh about is the circumcision knife
imagining my little boy with THAT held up to his todger is not something im happy about LOL
Posted by alfapapacharlie on 6/7/09
desde SEVILLA (SPAIN) que horror, las herramientas que utilizaban, dan miedo verlas SALUDOS A TODOS
Posted by Tyler on 6/7/09
my dick hurts :(
Posted by Victorian Mobster on 6/7/09
Excuse my Victorian manners but, DAMN, that is so scary. Hand worked skull cutting saw? Mannnn….
Posted by Matthew on 6/7/09
I’m sure people will be saying similar things about our current tools one thousand years from now…
Posted by Callista on 6/7/09
Wow those are crazy! What James (near the top of comments) said is true, what we do know will look crazy 200 years from now!
Posted by Vince on 6/7/09
“Jim! They still use needles and knives! Barbarians!!!
Posted by Roger on 6/7/09
Actually, neurosurgeons (like me) still use a trephine that looks almost exactly like that, just hooked up to a power source. Works great.
Posted by Erika on 6/7/09
….SHIT. I think given that there was no anesthesia of any kind, I think I would just die. No way would I be willing to put ANY of those devices anywhere near me. Although those who have said that people in the future will say exactly the same thing about us are completely right…0_0
Posted by Iccy on 6/7/09
Hot damn these are scary!!!
Posted by Christine on 6/7/09
I had to have a palette expander before braces as a young teen. I later learned that the device I had was also used during the Spanish Inquisition as a torture device. Oy
Posted by Kelli on 6/7/09
i like almost lost my dinner thinking about how those things work.
so dangerous too…
Posted by Will on 6/7/09
These things creep me out. Just imagining them being used makes my stomach turn. I wonder what people 500 years in the future will be saying about our surgical instruments.
Posted by spittenkitten on 6/7/09
Excellent post but dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyum
Posted by billy on 7/7/09
Second to last picture still has blood on it.
Posted by sternwheeler on 7/7/09
I am a pipe smoker and I see no pleasure what so ever in having tobacco smoke “infused” in my behind, for what imaginable medical purpose were they thinking?
Posted by Jayzzi on 7/7/09
It’s pretty amazing guys…
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Posted by Marty Robertson on 7/7/09
Come on you’re blowing smoke up my ASS.
Posted by nanabanana on 7/7/09
mmmmmmmmm!Tonsil remnants!
Posted by Sue on 7/7/09
I had to laugh at the tobacco smoke up the butt. lol Isn’t it what goes in must come out? lol smoking gun or smoking butt lol
Posted by butchered wang on 7/7/09
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Posted by JoanieGirl 4 days, 5 hours ago
As a surgical nurse, I can’t wait to print these out to show to our surgeons! My husband almost fainted when I showed him the circumcision knife……he’s going in for his circ in a few days…LOL
Making your husband remove part of his penis, so that it looks cute to you, shows that you a horrible person.
Posted by K on 7/7/09
Doesn’t look like much has changed. Some of the modern circumcision instruments are just as barbaric. As for the vaginal speculum….lets just say HELL NO.
Posted by Johan von Lindeman on 7/7/09
its good to be from this era…
Posted by Karmazabitch on 7/7/09
JoanieGirl, these photos are horrifying and grotesque but they are as nothing compared with your horrifying grotesqueness. tell us, JoanieGirl… do you laugh out loud at female circumcision too?
Posted by Arnie Bentley on 7/7/09
Just think, in 100 years or so the instruments used today will have the same scarey feeling.
Posted by jim on 7/7/09
Amazing , they actually had the technology to create an artificial leech . Seems like a waste of real leeches.
Posted by Dar on 7/7/09
Having been in the medical field for over 39 years, I actually saw an similar cervical dialator to the one used in the 1800s, in 1971.
Posted by Justin on 7/7/09
Just think, if the healthcare system was nationalized while these tools were in use, we could very well still be using them today.
Posted by cooney on 7/7/09
at least they had opium and cocaine for anesthesia…
Posted by that one dude on 7/7/09
that circumcision knife literally made my balls receed into my body cavity.
Posted by Holy Surgery Batman!! on 7/7/09
Just think – these are probably the “tools” you had used on you IF you had money! Man, you’d want to be a heavy drinker before surgery!!
Posted by thecheeto on 7/7/09
thats funny JoanieGirl!
i know for a fact if my wife or girlfriend showed me the knife that was going to be used on me during my circ, well, to be honest, i would soil my pants with props.
and i would do the same thing to her. thats our sense of humor.
some people get it, some dont. doesnt mean you get to intrude on her freedom of speech and press.
Posted by SDK on 7/7/09
These look like the surgical tools in the movie Dead Ringers.
Posted by Andres on 7/7/09
@joaniegirl
It might be none of our business, but then again you casually and jokingly shared it. Why is he getting circumcised? That’s an awful thing to do for cosmetic reasons or any supposed ‘benefits’. If it’s at all preventable, circumcision is a painful process performed on the most precious part of a man’s body. As an adult uncircumcised male I couldn’t imagine willingly getting that procedure done. Hope you’d be willing to get a clitorectomy if you put him up for it. Hope it’s not too late for him to reconsider mutilating himself.
@Justin
Could you explain to me how the United States’ ‘nationalized’ military somehow still manages to have the most advanced technology on the planet?
Posted by antmattmn on 7/7/09
@anres
Being the #1 targeted nation in the world and unable to keep our nose out of other’s business, our military and related operations(defense, intelligence, etc.) are the government’s top priority. Healthcare would probably fall somewhere between the 3rd and 5th priority once nationalized. And, because we are such a targeted nation it is unreasonable to cut funding to the military in a time such as now, practically on the brink of another huge war. Healthcare, on the other hand, is another added expense to the already trillions of dollars we are in debt. And, since healthcare won’t be such a top priority, it will be a perfect place for the government to save money, possibly by removing promotion of new tools and perhaps getting rid of some of the already state-of-the-art machines we have already. I think that might clear your mind about the issue there, hope so anyways.
On a different note, this was a good stumble. Made my stomach turn :-(
Posted by m on 8/7/09
is it strange that this makes me horny?
Posted by Lindsey on 8/7/09
Wow, looking at all of these pictures gave me the creeps. Good thing I don’t need to have any surgical procedures anytime soon!
Posted by Pdantix on 8/7/09
This shit is nasty sonnn!
Posted by gerard pawling on 8/7/09
best all-time rock album = EAT THE PEACH by the led zepplein
Posted by JC on 9/7/09
You know,you all people crack me up with your comments hahaha! Anyway this intruments are scary…when I saw the circumcision knife I literally crossed my legs D=>… but hey many of you are right,in a few years what we use now it’s gonna look insane!
Posted by jim on 9/7/09
Wonder what they will think of our modern day medicine 200 years from now????
Posted by garfield on 9/7/09
Holy Shit!!!
Posted by Ash on 9/7/09
Wow! That Circumcision Knife is some holy badass shit man!
Posted by jgibron on 9/7/09
gonna need a bigger Craftsman box!!!
Posted by mandino on 9/7/09
These tools are really weird and scary.. thinking about this, I imagined the movie hostel :P I haven’t visited that place that they featured in hostel though… I have also shared this with friends in http://www.baraaza.com/contest/ where we share and talk about travel tips…
Posted by Frogfur on 9/7/09
Being a student of history, hell, I’m so old I’ve lived a lot of history. That stuff is nothing to a lot of what’s out there. You should look into what battlefield surgeons carried and used on patients. Soldiers used to beg their buddies to kill them before letting the surgeon get hold of them. The only qualification required to be a battlefield surgeon was to show up.
Life’s a bitch then it really gets bad…
Posted by Metageist on 10/7/09
Anyone else horny now?
Posted by kirstin on 10/7/09
anyone else in pain?
Posted by Elena Jones on 10/7/09
DavidSutherland
What a disgusting URL especially posted from a site that spreads such hatred
Posted by Then Onein The East on 11/7/09
Why do you silly euopeans claim to be so advanced… While you were off galavanting with your big knifes and things we used herbs and nature to cure stuff.
Posted by kasper on 11/7/09
oh man, im glad we evolved our tools :D
could you guys imagine getting your skull drilled with a handdrill? :P
Posted by IcedVeins on 11/7/09
Sexy.
Posted by All the flapdin way? on 11/7/09
tasty
Posted by Eveliyn on 11/7/09
Oh, God…
The Cervix ones made me squeeze my legs together.
Posted by cjsavvy on 11/7/09
No shit! What a load of fucking scary medical tools.
Posted by lol on 11/7/09
lol
Posted by Idoit101 on 11/7/09
That smoke-enema tastes funny.
Posted by Framtonm on 12/7/09
Aaaarrgh! Mind you, if we were unconscious God only knows what they use?
Posted by John Berends on 12/7/09
Yes Framtonm Look at some of the things Dr Kellogg came up with (the original mad scientist)
Posted by Mel Taylor on 12/7/09
I am so glad we now live in a world of anesthetics….
Posted by gratis geld on 12/7/09
Damn! I’m glad it are modern times now…
Posted by fishdroid on 12/7/09
I just wish some of you posting these comments would learn better English. Your spelling and grammar suck, especially considering that a spell checker is available for use. At least the people using these instruments had an excuse.
Posted by BOBO on 12/7/09
I think the scariest was the skull-cutter-opener
Posted by alice on 12/7/09
These instruments do look scary but I work in the sterile service department at a hospital, and they’re not so different now you know! The amputation saw is similar, apart from all the engravings, but the basic shape is the same. I’ve seen all sorts, it’s a very interesting job.
Posted by alice on 12/7/09
But can I say, to the guy who went on about circumcision, men have their foreskins removed because of all the smeg under it, you don’t get smeg round a clitoris!
Posted by Allie on 12/7/09
Some of the oldest instruments (especially the amputation saw from the 1600s) are so pretty! I wonder what people would guess they were for without their descriptions…
Posted by alexXx on 12/7/09
that shit is so fuckin awsome!!! its interesting.. be cool to play around with those…
Posted by Mike on 12/7/09
Very nice – thanks for the info!
Posted by confused peanut on 12/7/09
thank god its 2009
Posted by Secret Agent Sami on 12/7/09
Wow I am SOOOOO glad I didnt live back then. If i had anything that requiredone of those “tools” i’d just kill myself…
Posted by Early Grayce on 12/7/09
The tools of today are very similar and I wouldn’t want to live without these sorts of tools.
Over a 50 year period, which marked the advent of modern medecine, average life expectancy doubled
Posted by Ember on 12/7/09
Very fk’d up to think of stuff like that being used.
Btw, the Dead Ringers movie was based on real brothers. Scary thought that o_O
Posted by Flamma Furoris on 13/7/09
I wonder how they made nice sections with the skull saw…
When you turn around the handle it should be impossible too hold the saw steady…
Posted by Ron on 13/7/09
Imagine what they will think in 100-200+ years about today’s surgical instruments.
Barbaric???
Posted by meredith on 13/7/09
at david sutherland
i am crying right now as we speak. what a terrible website
Posted by Website Design on 13/7/09
I have a sick stomach now. Each one was excrusiating. I had to stop about 3/4 of the way down and walk away and get some air. Wow…
Posted by joe on 14/7/09
I want the tobacco enema kit! so I can blow smoke up everyone’s ASS!!!!!!!!!lol
nice post by the way very interesting stuff
Posted by Joshua on 14/7/09
WOW!! Those tools look archaic! We have truly come a long way from those days. A friend of mine had Hemorrhoid surgery and he told me how bad it hurt. Could you imagine the Ecraseur???? Holy CRAP!!!!
Posted by brandon on 14/7/09
holy shit everything must haved been fuckd up in those days.I cant imagine if all of these tools being used today in hospitals.thank god they aren’t being used today or else. DAMNNNNN!
Posted by paul on 15/7/09
It’s good to be in the 21st century.
Posted by pam on 15/7/09
smoke up the ass…….huumm cant imagine..how did some one come up with that idea??
they had to be way way out there.
Posted by Cory on 15/7/09
One tool still in use today, the weighted speculum, is quite scary.
FYI, the Walter Reed Museum has an excellent collection of these relics.
Posted by belinda on 15/7/09
this iz all quite interesting to know, however, the only way i want one of thoze thingz near me iz in a muzeum. shiver
Posted by musephotos on 15/7/09
thank god i was born in 1976.
:::kisses hand fervently:::
Posted by Vivisection40 on 16/7/09
I have a delightful collection of antique urethral catheters, surgical tools, books etc myself, but these are quite stunning. I’m jealous. I wouldn’t be so excited about living in the 21st century yet, have you seen the side effects of modern drugs and therapies?? Hopefully we will look at our current cancer and HIV treatments with the same horror one day.
Posted by Doctor Agan on 16/7/09
Skull Saw… It’s good to be in the 21st century.
Posted by Random Girl on 16/7/09
ewww gross im glad i dont live in those times!
Posted by Flipper on 16/7/09
the trephine looked very painful…i would hate to have that used on me
Posted by Gerard on 17/7/09
@ Alice
What a weak argument. Smeg only forms if the penis is not cleaned. Shall me have our armpits removed because they smell on the unclean? Shower daily and you’ve got no problems.
If American gents can’t keep their dicks clean then by all means it’d probably be nessecary for them to have foreskin removed.
In the mean time I’ll keep mine and shower regularly.
Woman, leave our dicks alone*
*until we want to put it in you. :D
Posted by lisa on 17/7/09
YOWSERS!!! imagine if they still used these methods today?? i know what i much rather have anyway….. NONE!!
Posted by David W. Beauchamp on 18/7/09
I wonder if we will think the same way about the tools used today.
Posted by Marilyne hugenot on 18/7/09
Whoever said THE GOOD OL’DAYS!
Are you kidding me??
Posted by Marlon. on 18/7/09
im a dentist,so, a lot is needed to scare me…this is very f”&% ugly man.
Posted by Bill on 18/7/09
So, how long does it take for a hemmoriod to just drop off after being clamped with those forceps, and, couldn’t the artificil leech be employed in that somehow?
Posted by Jamie J. Beauchamp on 19/7/09
I know it all had to start some where, but these instruments are going to give me nightmares. I can just imagine… the mouth gag cork screwed into ones mouth to keep from screaming or biting their tongue off while the trephine slowly rips into their flesh tearing away layer upon layer until it reaches bone…then the horrifying grinding while boring into the skull…all with No pain meds…. OH.MY.GAWD!!
Posted by selfmadecritic on 19/7/09
Hand-powered chainsaw FTW.
Posted by SewinthePast on 20/7/09
@ Jamie J. Beauchamp
The operation of trepination was not done that way at all…There were folks who held you still and talked to you. The surgeon then used a scalpel to cut the flesh away from the area. Then the trepine was used on the bone istself. Once it was through the bone was lifted out and then pressure on the brain could be released. They still do this today, just with a Power tool version. Many folks survived it long enough to be growing new bone back if not fully survived but it depended on your condition etc just like it does not always work today either. As for anastetics…opium (I am only talking 18th century here) was given after the operation not before due to the depression of the respitory system from the amount needed to “kill” the pain. Liquor was not used since it causes bleeding. The mouth gag as it was stated before was for opeing a mounth on a person with lockjaw not to keep from screaming etc.
Oh and no we do not give folks bullets to bite on…you would scream and swollow it and choke so not a good idea. A peice of leather or a sturdy stick wrapped in cloth or leather.
Posted by sc0616 on 20/7/09
If this stuff intrigues you, you should read the book called My Lobotomy. Even has pictures of the tools that were used.
Posted by mark b on 21/7/09
that amputation blade makes one wonder how jack the ripper got his start…i mean dr.ripper
Posted by IIIITaraIIII on 22/7/09
As soon as you look at that first picture your like, “Oh God whats next.”
Posted by Stan on 22/7/09
Hey—My hospital still uses half of these tools. A little uncomforable from time to time, but effective.
Posted by crikey_o'reilley on 23/7/09
is there anything on the internet that i won’t masterbate to?
Posted by Izzy on 23/7/09
Dear modern medicine,
Thank you!
Sincerely,
My Vagina
Posted by onur on 24/7/09
thanks to the person who found narcosis:S
Posted by mary on 24/7/09
Looking at these “tools” kinda reminds me why dying at the age of 27 was considered old age. I think I would rather die from the Black Plague, than have a baby or get a head ache.
Posted by corey on 24/7/09
lions,tigers,and surgeons oh my……definitely not in Kansas anymore!
Posted by Joe on 24/7/09
Well a female circumcision is not really cutting off the clitoris. It is mainly just cuttin off the skin or “hood” that surrounds the clitoris to keep it from forming bacteria and to keep it clean. See any relevance there? And after years the clitoris will lose some of it sensitivity and become “dry”.
Posted by Mason on 25/7/09
Look for these to come back under ObamaCare. It’s what will bring utilization rates and costs down.
Posted by GIMEANEY on 29/7/09
Women do have smegma under the clitoral hood and around the clitoris.
And a modern scary tool made for female circumcision would be the Rathmann clamp invented in about 1959.
pictures of the Rathmann female circumcision clamphttp://www.noharmm.org/images/FCtool-closed.gif
http://www.noharmm.org/images/FCtool-open.gif
Posted by The Goddess on 29/7/09
@David Sutherland Way to use crude shock tactics to paint a standard & safe medical procedure in your bible-thumping colors. “Forceps:
This abortion tool is used to crush, grasp, and pull the child’s body apart.” It’s a pair of glorified tongs, you asshat!
I bet you’re a supporter of female castration, too. No clit means no cheating on your husband, right??
Posted by Roman on 29/7/09
Thank to God that we live now)
Posted by Claire on 29/7/09
OMG I think I’m going to have nightmares!
But it is interesting to see how far we have come medically!
Posted by PORFIRIO ROJAS on 30/7/09
I think all surgical techs and staff shoul be be compensated with hazardous pay .. when working with patients with hep c , aids, what do you think….
Posted by chuchu on 31/7/09
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Posted by chloe on 3/8/09
and to think, the native americans used plant medicines to rid the body of stones, infections and every other ailment they were faced with in their 5,000 year history without ever having to create these kind of tools? …those crazy savages
Posted by TV on 3/8/09
I want these images. who has the rights to them? or are they public domain.
Posted by se o ke on 3/8/09
deberian seguir usando esos instrumentos yo digo k es de lo mejor k hay :)
Posted by J.A. Pines des Saints on 6/8/09
Thanks god for new techonologies!
Posted by Willyt on 10/8/09
Keep your mouth shut, your hands in your pockets, your legs crossed, and your back to the wall.
Posted by freak out on 12/8/09
that is disgusting! I can’t believe modern hospitals still use these things in some form or another.
Posted by A on 13/8/09
I can’t believe people still perform circumcisions!
Posted by KS on 14/8/09
I need to use one of these images. Where can I find a hi res version and copyright permission? Funny. The security word: blunt!
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Posted by candace on 19/8/09
c’mon people, medical tools haven’t changed THAT much since these were shiny and new, they’ve just become more streamlined. did anyone else think of chloroform. it was a helluva anestesia back in the day. if you look at these and look at our modern instuments, its just evolution baby!!
Posted by Gloria on 23/8/09
Its abit scary to think people actually used these crude tools.
Posted by JoAnn on 24/8/09
Trephine – I actually use mine as a biscuit cutter.Yummy!
Posted by nima on 26/8/09
uh, I’d rather go without treatment if i saw my doctor holding one of those. _‘’
Posted by Dylan on 31/8/09
Oh, GOD, I could feel myself turn green… And those were used on human beings….
Posted by Deb on 3/9/09
Back when I was in highschool I chose to give a report on “torture techniques of the spanish inquisiton” (honest, no joke. They told me to be original).
There was one torture device known simply as the “anal and vaginal pear” (they didn’t have the fancy name up on the site).
Basically it was a metal tool shaped like a pear that you shoved up the vagina and or rectum, hit a little lever and it snapped appart into three blades. A simple twist and a flick of the wrist.. your innerards are now shreaded.
…That reminded me of the vaginal speculum so much it disgusted me.
Posted by Tweet97 on 3/9/09
Now, Now lol Think about it. If someone else did not have to get it done. How would they know what needs improvement.
Its like a computer, the first new computers invented were big and slow (32MB) and now notebook size and 500MB to 1 tera in memory.
That my friend is called EVOLUTION.
Posted by Todd on 5/9/09
I agree I work for a medical instruments manufacturer and there are still some tools that look very similar and some even worse I make them everyday but cringe when I see them in actual use. Those doctors really have balls of steel
Posted by Feir on 9/9/09
I consider myself a bit of a sadist but this is stuff is like if the devil had run out of things to use his pitch fork for.
Posted by Anon on 9/9/09
After seeing that circumcision tool, I’m fairly certain my penis has become and “innie”
Posted by moifus on 11/9/09
A “Tobacco Smoke Enima”! It’s amazing what the big tobacco companies will come up with to get our kids to start smoking.
Posted by Aubeard on 7/10/09
So, this is the Republican Healthcare Package?
Posted by Melissa on 13/10/09
I’m feeling faint……
Posted by Serenity on 21/10/09
I have a drill bit for my drill that looks exactly like that Trephine. Creepy. Glad to know I can drill into someone’s skull if it comes up at a party or something. Oh. Em. Gee.
Posted by uh huh on 22/10/09
SAW XII : Jigsaws Early Years…
Posted by Carly on 28/10/09
Has the vaginal speculum really changed all that much? haha
Posted by Hal on 29/10/09
Thanks, I now feel small and weak. Those wacky humans.
Posted by Mr Ewwwww on 30/10/09
Tell someone to clean that Trephine for God’s sake!
Posted by Ra on 31/10/09
Holy shite. The circumcision knife made me cry.
Posted by Jack on 4/11/09
Most Holy !!!! When we look at these surgical instruments,considered state of the art from many years ago, what will folks think of OUR instruments a few years from now? Will they think that WE were living in the dark ages?
Posted by OMF on 8/11/09
THERE WAS BLOOD ON ONE OF THEM :’(
Posted by al3x on 11/11/09
holy sh*t! who was the moron who invented all these instruments?! WTF?! morons
Posted by al3x on 11/11/09
hehe excuse my french X_x
Posted by she bad on 11/11/09
O_o roflmfaof
Posted by Dawn Jacobson on 11/11/09
Does anyone know who I could contact for permission to resuse the Tobacco Smoke Enema photo?
Posted by Barbara on 14/11/09
I live in the near of Zurich. Theres a museum with old school surgical tools too.
http://www.medizin-museum.uzh.ch/index.htm
I upload a few photos, which i take there:
http://rapidshare.de/files/48680241/Museum_of_History_of_Medicine__University_of_Zurich__Photos_-_Barbara_.zip.html
You can use it how you like.
I translate the descripes from german to english. So maybe they are not allways completly right.
Barbara
Posted by codiiquarantine on 30/11/09
uck. that was horrible.
Posted by Izzy on 13/12/09
Oh yes I looooveee the amputtion saw. doctor, When you cut off my legs I wanted to jump for joy… Except I can’t.
Posted by Monro Hoobler on 14/12/09
I’ll bet the lifeguards consider the person that incorporated the bellows into the tobacco smoke kit a TRUE HERO.
Posted by jared on 15/12/09
State of the art technology at the time!!!
Posted by bonnie on 18/12/09
argh all i can say about the womens instruments is ouch that would be bloody painful poor ladies!!!!
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Posted by Beavis Pantsalone on 24/12/09
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Posted by OhEmGee on 2/1/10
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Posted by nelc on 6/1/10
i hope they did not came with the rust..
Posted by yarn on 6/1/10
i think i’d prefer the original leech..
Posted by Rachel on 13/1/10
I say just keep the freakin’ foreskin!
Posted by lady gaga on 14/1/10
omg!!! who invents these things gosh back in the 1500’s really thanks for the whole 22 century thing right. Because this shit looks painfull!!
Posted by Valerie Solis on 14/1/10
wtf this shit looks F/N crazy who comes up with this shit. they even make it look fucking painfull. I feel sorry for the guys that nife for there wiwi looks like it would hurt fuck that shit. thanck for doctors today :) and fuck them from the 1500’s:)
Posted by heert on 19/1/10
it must be really painful
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Posted by Guy Fosbery on 30/1/10
How long before people look back at our medical facilities and cringe with horror?
Posted by ashlee jacobson on 2/2/10
EWWWWW WHO CAME UP WITH THESE TORTURE DECICES, I AM SCARED FOR LIFE FROM LOOKING AT THESE, NO WONDER SO MANY PEOPLE DIED BACK THEN.
Posted by Ace on 3/2/10
What will the world say of our surgical equipment and practices in a hundred years time? Radiation, gyneacology, prevention?
And on a brighter note, my captcha says ‘clamp’
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Posted by jamie on 9/2/10
those are bruttal. i woulnd’t want to be there when they did sugery…dis-cus-ting.
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Posted by Gouki on 20/2/10
Very Interesting Tools used back in the day,but as for the pain, you can’t tell me they didn’t get liquored up before most operations. Yes, I know that its not as good as today’s medicine,but it helped to ease the pain I am sure.
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Posted by LaDonna on 23/2/10
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Posted by arcturian on 1/3/10
Man I am glad I live in the present and we use scapulas
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sure am glad things have changed.
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Posted by Steve Southworth on 21/3/10
Amazing brilliant designs-Mind boggling that someone was paid to design these tools-manufacture… them let alone use them-
I give the “users” of these instruments a lot of credit..you must have had to have a particular mind set believing that everyone will live “Happily Ever After” before and during usage of these toys..
Posted by A. Scalia on 26/3/10
No wonder most patients back then just wanted to crawl in a corner and die
Posted by MR. MUSHIES on 28/3/10
IMAGINE GETTING THE BULLET EXTRACTOR IN YOU PEEHOLE…..SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHIN AN EMO WOULD DO ALSO THAT Scarificator does LOOK LIKE A DAMN GOOD NUT SCRATCHER
Posted by Astair on 30/3/10
Holy man. I can’t stop looking at them.
Posted by Dave on 30/3/10
To offer a correction, the “Mouth Gag” was more accurately used in the treatment of lockjaw victims. The spiral grooves allowed the plug to be rotated to force the jaw open so that the victim could be fed a liquid diet.
Posted by Jim on 30/3/10
Some of todays tools of the trade are just as horrifying. That why we keep a cloth over them until you are in lala land.
Posted by D. on 30/3/10
Are you sure that wooden gag is intended to keep the airway open. In a dramatisation on the telling-vision, I saw something very similar used to force feed a sufragette, ie. to keep the foodpipe open.
Posted by mad on 30/3/10
OMG thats scary.. i cant believe they actually used that stuff
Posted by jk on 30/3/10
The trephine is still in use for some aspects of veterinary medicine!
Posted by Angela on 30/3/10
yeah, um, holy fuck. im insanely horrified and very grateful for modern surgical untensils holds entire body for protection
Posted by Geri Baker on 30/3/10
Scary but I can’t stop looking at them…lol
Posted by Diana on 31/3/10
HOLY CRAP that’s gotta hurt… shudder O_O
Posted by Jack on 31/3/10
it might just be because i’m a guy, but that Circumcision Knife made me shudder more than anything
Posted by dmitry on 31/3/10
That is creepy!
Posted by dmitry on 31/3/10
shit!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by dmitry on 31/3/10
shit!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Aster on 1/4/10
Am I the only one getting slightly turned on by these descriptions?
Posted by Luke ( Sydney, Australia) on 2/4/10
Holllly shiiit. That’s so damn gross. I’m going to throw up now :D Glad I live in the 21st century…
Posted by Dictum on 4/4/10
Before reading the description of the Mouth Gag instrument I took it for a butt plug.
Posted by ironwyll on 4/4/10
bitch about our health care system now
Posted by charlie on 4/4/10
for the guy who said that the “foot” is the most sensitive part of the body, I think his name was Matt. Stand next to me and kick me in the foot, then Ill kick you in the nuts and we’ll compare notes….
Posted by Peter on 4/4/10
Here’s something to think about, people like 100 years from now are going to be saying the same things about the stuff we have now as what we’re saying about this stuff here.
Posted by Dale on 4/4/10
Just think what surgery will be like in 100 years from today, they may not even need to pierce the skin :)
Posted by ssk iyer on 5/4/10
what the hardship they took to develope these
Posted by ssk iyer on 5/4/10
what the hardship they took to develope these
Posted by ssk iyer on 5/4/10
what the hardship they took to develope these
Posted by ssk iyer on 5/4/10
what the hardship they took to develope these
Posted by Slayerroolz on 5/4/10
These instruments are awesome. Nothing like what I used to circumcise myself.
Posted by Fugoff on 5/4/10
Do you think the Amish comunity still uses stuff like that?
Posted by JAK on 5/4/10
THESE MODERN DAYS YOU CAN GO TO HOSPITAL AND HAVE THE SURGEONS LEAVE THEIR TOOLS INSIDE YOU…THATS IF YOU DONT CATCH GOLDEN STAPH INFECTION…
Posted by Gaza77 on 6/4/10
Well, if we think these tools, some a guess deserve the word instrument, are quite barbaric, please shift your attention to the use of harsh and random chemicals to do the same job. “This nice pill will help your depression, but you have anal leakage and a bloody nose, and it might cause cancer, and you won’t be able to sleep at night. Also, you might not be able to have kids yet. The people of those times were just as scared as today’s cancer or HIV patience. Just something to think about. It’s all relative.
Posted by kelli on 6/4/10
and people still believe in the ‘good old days?’
Posted by WingsStef on 6/4/10
Scary stuff! Some of these caused more problems then the thing it was designed to treat.
Posted by LP on 7/4/10
These guys were pioneers they tryed to understand what made us sick they made a science out of it while the rest of the world was dancing around sick people chanting.
Posted by Davey D on 7/4/10
I can’t uncross my legs, after looking at those!
Posted by lawlessfelon on 7/4/10
all of these are fuckin nuts, jesus am i glad i live now and not then
Posted by Andy on 7/4/10
Take tham tonsils by da Pliers.i don,t mind,but i mind to not eat for 5 days and afreyd to past away
Posted by Sharon on 7/4/10
Ahhh., reading over the remarks was so very interesting. But also remember how tortures these instruments invoked, I cringe because there was no such thing as Sterile, or even reasonable clean. So, they could be used on one patient after another……………Now that is scarey.
Posted by Sharon on 7/4/10
Me like big long weenie!
Posted by Kush.Kush™ on 8/4/10
HOLY OMG that sh*t look hella gory. thatnk god for anesthetics =]]
Posted by Kush.Kush™ on 8/4/10
HOLY OMG that sh*t look hella gory. thatnk god for anesthetics =]]
Posted by morrygan on 8/4/10
welcome to socialized medicine everyone!!!!!
Posted by morrygan on 8/4/10
welcome to socialized medicine everyone!!!!!
Posted by missmom on 9/4/10
I would rather die then let someone touch me with any ONE of those instruments!! OMG!!!!
Posted by heythere on 10/4/10
Ah…… both you and i thought the same thing……a guillotine was something that belonged in a town square during an execution and not in a person’s mouth to remove tonsils. The good old days when “medical instruments” belonged in a house of horrors rather than a “hospital” or in the hands of a “war suugeon” (a.k.a. doctor of amputations).
Posted by asdfsd on 10/4/10
number 1 loooked like the weapon from ninja assassin
Posted by Puppet Delin on 11/4/10
The Trephine is simply amazing but scary…extremely scary! I want one..no questions asked please…
Posted by bLad3 on 11/4/10
Now I will go with a happy face to my doctor… xD…
Posted by Linda U on 11/4/10
That was gut wrenching. Although some would work very well, these were not torture devices. That’s freaking scary. But yes, very interesting.
Posted by Ghost on 11/4/10
I just looked at these wiht my mate and he said the skull saw looked like a unicycle from the side. I now have a fear of clowns coming after me with one of those. :O :L
Posted by PunkmedGirl on 12/4/10
OMG, It seems like death was a very attractive alternative than having any of those surgical tools used on you.
Posted by NitzanHersh on 12/4/10
think about it, in a couple of centuries people are going to look at our instruments and be all like “omg, im glad i didnt live in THOSE days…”
Posted by victoria on 13/4/10
all I can do is think of the rust…and it makes me want to scream!!!
Posted by sar on 13/4/10
nice
Posted by ApMb on 14/4/10
wtf is up with the chozen guy cum guzil n?? someone should use that skull saw on him ha ha
Posted by rakshith on 14/4/10
kool..check this out !!!
Posted by margi on 14/4/10
funny that all the men freak out about the circumcision knife the most… guess you’re very sensitive when it comes to your precious package.
in south africa a knife is still used for circumcision. it’s an initiation rite that all xhosa (even city living, educated) males undergo when they turn 18.
and they are seen as weak if they cry out.
Posted by i wonder on 15/4/10
I think these are the kind of tools that the writers of the “ Saw “ series get their sick ideas from :p
Posted by Justin on 15/4/10
Mmmmmm, Surgery… Haircuts and surgery… mmm yes…
Posted by Min on 15/4/10
omg i think im going to be sick.
///i take back what i said about life being easier back in the day….Posted by Custom Vinyl Lettering on 15/4/10
These are insane! Thank heavens for 2010!
Posted by Oh Hell NO on 15/4/10
OMG, i feel sick,faint and nautious!
Posted by Maryanne Pusateri on 15/4/10
the book “my lobotomy” by william dully, (true story) tells about his doctor using an actual ice pick thru his eye to perform the procedure, there’s even pictures, some patients got shock treatment before to knock em out.
plus, i’m glad i have a modern vagina.
Posted by david on 16/4/10
I think some of the old vaginal tools would be good today in some form of foreplay…..
Posted by surgical nurse on 16/4/10
We still use an amputation knife, its straight though, the gigly saw is still use it is similar to the second pictured. The burr hole driller is similar just has power now. and smaller. Not all brain patients are awake, silly. i am printing this off to show to the doc’s i work with, they will get a kick out of this. I am glad I live in this century!
Posted by Ganar dinero on 18/4/10
Oh horrible, thank god for modern medicine
Posted by Dinero on 18/4/10
That would be to painful.
Posted by Relojeria online on 18/4/10
OMG! Savage.
Posted by gadeskilte on 26/4/10
Damn thats some scary stuff right there!
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Posted by hellcatmaggie on 16/7/10
“Posted by Pickles. on 4/7/09
@ NickyBiggs, That would be the least painful one actually. Their are no pain receptors in the skull, making brain surgery painless, even without Anethestics. Most brain surgery’s have their patients awake”.
ACTUALLY PICKLES, THE SKULL WOULD HURT THE WORST, NO PAIN RECEPTORS? PUT YOUR FINGERNAILS TO YOUR HEAD AND MAKE A CIRCLE OR USE A PENCIL, HOW ABOUT WHEN HAIR IS PULLED OR EVEN A HEADACHE? YES THEY DID SURGERY WHILE THEY WERE AWAKE , NOTHING TO KNOCK THEM OUT! AND BOOZE WASNT A SMART CHOICE…HAVING THAT DANG CIRCLE SAW TO HEAD WOULD TERRIBLY!!!