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Bizarre Medical Treatments From The Past Show How Far We’ve Come

by Zack Walkter

Published March 28, 2018

Patients at a hospital in Germany inhaling powdered medicines such as menthol and eucalyptus to heal respiratory diseases, circa 1930.

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A woman wearing a flu mask during the flu epidemic which followed the First World War, 1919.

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R. Dubois anesthetizing machine in France, circa 1913.

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Lieutenant Radtke presses air into his lungs in a constant height with a mercury column, while the doctor checks his blood pressure, circa 1932.

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Children using a light bath in Berlin, Germany circa 1929.

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A man enjoys a sun-ray lamp, circa 1930.

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The new ‘hip massage machine’ from the United States, circa 1928.

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Post Office Department Inspector DF Angier (left) and Dr. LF Kebler, formerly of the Food and Drug Administration, try out a stretching device which claimed to increase height by 2 to 6 inches, 1931.

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A young woman holds her arms and legs in four water baths with electric current, to improve blood circulation, circa 1938.

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Women operate the new stretching machine for surgical dressing at the Red Cross headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1915.

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The modern Roentgen ‘look through’ machine, which prevents any injury to the treating physician, Frankfurt, Germany, circa 1929.

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A doctor wears protective clothing during an outbreak of plague in Manchuria, circa 1912.

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Partially dissected cadavers on tables in the dissecting room at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, circa 1902.

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Dr. Lewis Albert Sayre observes the change in the curvature of the spine as a patient self-suspends herself prior to being wrapped in a plaster of Paris bandage as part of her scoliosis treatment circa 1850-1900.

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