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1771 Trepanation kit, found via Mental Floss - "Sometimes the only way to get an epileptic to stop acting so strange was to drill a hole in his head to let the demons out. Trepanation has been in practice since ancient times, employed to cure everything from migraines to bad moods. Neurosurgeons still use a form of it today, though they call it a craniotomy."

Trephination set Trephines are the surgical devices used for trephination, or trepanning. The basic practices and tools have remained largely unchanged for centuries.

Skinner And Hyde: TONSIL GUILLOTINE
1700s Surgical Kit. Sure hope the patient was already asleep before Doc pulled out his kit.

century surgical instrument case of Dr. Gillespie, Physician General to Lord Nelson's fleet.

1860s First Aid kit. Germ theory was not well known until after the Civil War, and many soldiers and civilians died because of infection on the battlefield and after childbirth.

Doctor's kit from the American Civil War (scissors missing) belonged to Jean Baptiste Drogba, a.a "Papa Legba"

Mummified chupacabra's paw

A genuine taxidermy Chupacabra foot. So either there is more than one Chupacabra, or the ol' goat blood sucker is down to limpin' on three feet.

#whyccc A typical post 1890's all metal plated surgical set it's amazing to me how far we have come with our tools
antique medical equipment. THEY DID SURGERY WITH THIS SHIT. mind boggling
Antique leeching kit, with 21 leech cups each about 2" tall, and a glass knife, and an antique pencil used for the burning parts of the process. The knife is 8-1/4" long and has flakes to the blade. Comes in a 6" by 9-3/4" by 4" pyrography box which dates to the 1910s.

Antique Leeching Kit 21 Leech Cups & Glass Knife Medical Set

☤ MD ☞☆☆☆ Antique leeching kit, with 21 leech cups each about tall, and a glass knife, and an antique pencil used for the burning parts of the process. The knife is long and has flakes to the blade. Comes in a by by pyrography box which dates to the

Antique 1800s Medical Set Silver Urethral Probes & Scalpel - Antique Medical Oddities, Curiosities. $249.00, via Etsy.
Victorian syringe case for cocaine by Science Museum London. #vintage #drugs sciencemuseumdiscovery.com

"Victorian syringe case for cocaine by Science Museum London. An interesting article on the Addictive History of Medicine is here, mentioning Holmes, of course." cocaine was used as a normal remedy for colds

Syringe kit - hypodermic syringes were made of metal and later glass. They were cleaned by passing the needle through a flame, soaking or drawing through with alcohol or a carbolic acid solution or boiling in a spoon of water over the alcohol lamp. The needles were sharpened by the user on a whetstone and tested for burrs using gauze. Early on private duty nurses, owned their own syringe, it was not unusual to be given one as a graduating gift from the physicians.

Morphine injection kit from Harrods.Where better to buy your needles than upmarket London department store, Harrods. They were quite a popular present for soldiers on the front during World War

Vintage Antique Unique Respiratory Gas analysis Apparatus Laboratory Medical Analysis Lloyd-Gallenkamp

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Antique Dr Walter Freeman Transorbital Lobotomy Kit Oddity Medical Torture | eBay

Antique Dr. Walter Freeman Transorbital Lobotomy Kit! Oddity, Medical, Torture

bloodletting tools.

Antique Medical Bleeder Lancet Bloodletting Cased Civil War Doctor Medical Tools

antique blood transfusion kit
C. M. Sorensen and Company embalming pump.

Old Antique Mortician Embalming Pump Engine Machine w/ Bottles COOL

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