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- elijahyossie, on 06/01/2009, -0/+15I think I'd rather be ill than visit a doctor who used that lot!
- 3rdDay, on 06/01/2009, -0/+14I love stuff like this. If anyone's ever in Edinburgh, the Surgeons' Hall Museum is worth a visit.
- enevitable, on 06/01/2009, -0/+10A little off topic but worth it:
In 1945 Walter Freeman developed a frontal lobotomy technique that made it greatly easier to leucotomize a patient without drilling through their skull. His technique utilized an ice pick through an ice socket, that would sever the tissue connecting the frontal lobe.
Sometime around 1941 Walter Freeman personally lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy. Back in the day lobotomies were used on nonconforming kids, or any other mental condition they thought they were afflicted with. Unfortunately he hadn't developed the pick method yet, and Rosemary was left as a vegetable after the procedure.
"Instead of producing the hoped-for result, however, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality that left her incontinent and staring blankly at walls for hours. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. Her mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy, remarked that although the lobotomy stopped her daughter's violent behavior, it left her completely incapacitated."
Her sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in Rosemary's honor in 1968. - ethanator1088, on 06/01/2009, -0/+10I got a headache just looking at it.
- socomoddjob, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8Im willing to say the odds of surviving brain surgery in the 1800s was very low.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8nice one
- sexybobo, on 06/01/2009, -0/+7This stuff if really interesting i recently inherited a lot of medical books and some tools from 1930 from a great great something in my family that have been passed down. I love reading all the old books and how out dated all the information in it was. Stuff like where to apply tobacco to get rid of tetanus.
Read this book it is hilarious.
http://www.archive.org/details/vitalogyorencycl00w ... - vofuse, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6Where's the whiskey?
- shiftkgb, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6Getting surgery from this ***** seems like the equivalent to getting hit by a truck and calling it a full body massage.
- DewKnight, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6http://rorr.im/digg.com/odd_stuff/neurosurgical_se ...
- nullcodes, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5The set from today actually looks worse. Do you think a neurosurgeon's toolkit today is composed of marshmallows and candy?
- solecize, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5ancient tweets?
/s - Snoogs, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4Reasons to be happy not to be alive in the 19th Century
34) No Internet Porn
35) Brain Surgery
36) SMS - LargeStack, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4Scary.
- ISellSigals, on 06/01/2009, -1/+4Error establishing a database connection
- krwlngindark, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3steampunk surgery.
- Probatus, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3Great find. I wonder what people in the future will find interesting from the early 21st century?
- solecize, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3Drill the hole right... here my good sir. Ahhh much better.
- novakaine, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3Mirror anyone?
- Quaestor44, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3going to need some sources on that doozy
- adamroach, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3I don't think I saw a leather strap in there either.
- enevitable, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3Spelling mistakes happen, but in this case I apparently had a whole brain lapse.
Eye sockets. - firesights, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3Not that off-topic. An unusually good read from the digg comment section.
- FOR3MAN, on 06/01/2009, -0/+3This won't hurt a bit...
- JMDMD, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3Haha, actually that would be stroke or cerebrovascular disease, whichever term you prefer. While iatrogenic accidents and nosocomial infections are a real problem, "third highest cause of death" is preposterous.
- hfactor, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2I read somewhere that it was only from around 1850 on that seeing a doctor actually increased your chances instead of decreasing them (bloodletting etc.).
- architerp, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2BRAAAAINS...
- DeusGear, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2anddddd it's gone.
- KingGorilla, on 06/02/2009, -1/+2ice pick through ice sockets? He was making ice cubes?
- elijahyossie, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I believe it!
- JTTM, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1that'l buff right out
- novakaine, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Nice! Thanks.
- Pegritz, on 06/02/2009, -1/+1I would kill to own this. I would kill WITH it to own it.
- nunu4u, on 06/02/2009, -2/+1We aren't much further along. Doctors and hospitals are the third highest cause of death in the US.
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