The Most Bizarre Medical Tools from Back in the Day

Dental Key

Yes, this is the device they used to pull teeth. The claw would be secured into the tooth while the bolster was placed on the root. Then, with a twist and a pull, the tooth was out. This usually caused more problems.

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The More You Know

  • There are more twins now than ever before.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • Kids ask about 300 questions a day.
  • Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
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