The Most Bizarre Medical Tools from Back in the Day

Hernia Tool

Doctors back in the day would secure this to a patients hernia and leave it secured there for over a week to heal… Doesn’t look comfortable at all.

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The More You Know

  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • Arkansas hosts the annual World Championship Duck Calling Contest.
  • But the loudest animal relative to its size is a water bug.
  • The patient in the game Operation has a name.
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