Meh.

I need that article like I need a hole in my head.

This article will surely bolus over.

What an incisive piece, stitched together from a number of sources.

bone

Didn't people ever notice, prior to the 20th century, that doctors never fixed anything? At best they could maim you to keep you alive.

this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Let's not forget about trepanation's highfalutin nephew, lobotomy.

If anyone's interested, NPR has a really great audio story about a guy who underwent transorbital lobotomy in 1960 at the hands of the infamous Walter Freeman. The lobotomy survivor narrates the story himself.

'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey (pops) - one disturbing pic in the link.

thisispete: What an incisive piece, stitched together from a number of sources.

Hah!

Cutting edge humor!

My god man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer! Now move aside and let me save this man!

What kind of operation is this? This piece reads like it was written by scrubs. Good writing is visceral, it dissects to the bone, it gets to the heart of the story and leaves the reader in stitches. This hack doesn't seem to know a colon from an appendix.


/could do this all day

utardsRock: this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Ask and you shall receive.


My ankle

Heartbeat in the Brain (new window)

British Colombia Medical Museum - excellent collection with great photos/descriptions (new window)

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Contrabulous Flabtraption: Didn't people ever notice, prior to the 20th century, that doctors never fixed anything? At best they could maim you to keep you alive.
eraser8: Let's not forget about trepanation's highfalutin nephew, lobotomy.

Yep, that's antidepressive psychiatry from the 20's up. Damage your brain so you can't understand your problems, and then you're not depressed about them anymore! Works wonders.

// Thorazine was like that
/// I really hope the modern drugs arn't, though they are a lot better.
//// Not 100% convinced, though.

This is scraping lebotom of the barrel.

utardsRock: this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Screw the pics (new window, Not Safe For Work).

CygnusDarius: utardsRock: this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Screw the pics (new window, Not Safe For Work).

Oh hell no. I don't need those kind of nightmares.

Docanthro: Chiseling a hole in a living skull is not brain surgery. It is witchcraft.

Witchcraft is science brought to a culture with a lower grasp of science.

toejam: CygnusDarius: utardsRock: this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Screw the pics (new window, Not Safe For Work).

Oh hell no. I don't need those kind of nightmares.

What is wrong with a little surgery (new window, Not Safe for Work)? Doctors do this for a living.

eraser8: Let's not forget about trepanation's highfalutin nephew, lobotomy.

If anyone's interested, NPR has a really great audio story about a guy who underwent transorbital lobotomy in 1960 at the hands of the infamous Walter Freeman. The lobotomy survivor narrates the story himself.

'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey (pops) - one disturbing pic in the link.

There was a documentary about Dr. Freeman on PBS some months ago that I recorded and this guy was interviewed.

If there's anyone who can complain about his stepmother, it'd be this guy.

Any Twin Cities farkers go to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices? That place was farking awesome! Unfortunately it closed in 2002 and donated most of its crap to the Minnesota Science Museum. Now all that is left is a sad web page... :-( Link (new window)

And yet people like Susan Sommers and Jeanie McCarthy are able to pass their idiocy off as legitimate.

BigLuca: Any Twin Cities farkers go to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices? That place was farking awesome! Unfortunately it closed in 2002 and donated most of its crap to the Minnesota Science Museum. Now all that is left is a sad web page... :-( Link (new window)

I loved that place. I'm sad that I've never been to this museum in Chicago. It looks like it would be just as interesting.

Contrabulous Flabtraption: Didn't people ever notice, prior to the 20th century, that doctors never fixed anything? At best they could maim you to keep you alive.

What always gets me is, anaesthesia, real anaesthesia, not just a couple shots of whiskey or if you were lucky opium, wasn't available until about 150 years ago. I can't even fathom why anyone would even think that surgery would be an option.

luckcat: What always gets me is, anaesthesia, real anaesthesia, not just a couple shots of whiskey or if you were lucky opium, wasn't available until about 150 years ago. I can't even fathom why anyone would even think that surgery would be an option.

Well, number of reasons I can't even begin to fathom.

Oh, and here's a dramatization of trephination (new window, slightly not safe for work).

gorgor: APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/yel9qtx
(copy and paste)

Is it bad and wrong that I was disappointed the pic was not someone being skullfarked in a fresh trepanation hole? I am not qualified to declare Gorgor to be slipping, so it must be me.

One hundred years from now, there will be a museum display about the things our doctors are doing now. Visitors will drop their faces into their palms and mutter "how primitive -- what were they thinking?!"

piperTom: One hundred years from now, there will be a museum display about the things our doctors are doing now. Visitors will drop their faces into their palms and mutter "how primitive -- what were they thinking?!"



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piperTom: One hundred years from now, there will be a museum display about the things our doctors are doing now. Visitors will drop their faces into their palms and mutter "how primitive -- what were they thinking?!"

I know, they'll view the time we take to cook bacon as barbaric.

Frowns upon your lobotomy shenanigans
would rather have a bottle in front of her

/that is, if she had the ability to frown
//or drink from a bottle
///what, too soon?
////or does nobody know who she is?

BigLuca: Any Twin Cities farkers go to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices? That place was farking awesome! Unfortunately it closed in 2002 and donated most of its crap to the Minnesota Science Museum. Now all that is left is a sad web page... :-( Link (new window)

Loved that place. The Orgone Accumulator was the best.

Oznog: Frowns upon your lobotomy shenanigans
would rather have a bottle in front of her

/that is, if she had the ability to frown
//or drink from a bottle
///what, too soon?
////or does nobody know who she is?

Rosemary Kennedy? Didn't she die a few years ago?

/hot like Arthur Digby Sellers
//Does he still write? Oh no no, he has health problems.

Check out the Indiana Medical History Museum. It covers lots of mental health issues as it is on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital. Lots of brains in jars there.

/Mmmm, brains
//pickled brains

I'm itching to go to the Mutter Museum again. I love that place. If you live around Philly and have never been there, you really should go. Lots of neat body parts and old surgical tools and stuff.

Annnnd I posted without finishing my thought. The iron lung is the most terrifying of all those things, in my mind. Can you imagine spending 60+ years just laying there? Not able to move or do anything? That's the worst kind of torture I can think of. You can't even kill yourself.

Was that a sweet pumpkin carving kit I saw in there!?

c'mon. don't knock it till you tried it. drill a hole in your head and then come on and tell me how bad of an idea it was.

You know who else approves? ME.

CygnusDarius: toejam: CygnusDarius: utardsRock: this thread has HUGE potential in the pics realm

Screw the pics (new window, Not Safe For Work).

Oh hell no. I don't need those kind of nightmares.

What is wrong with a little surgery (new window, Not Safe for Work)? Doctors do this for a living.

I liked both of them!

/is it wrong that I was masturbating while watching?

I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.

Crackers Are a Family Food: Annnnd I posted without finishing my thought. The iron lung is the most terrifying of all those things, in my mind. Can you imagine spending 60+ years just laying there? Not able to move or do anything? That's the worst kind of torture I can think of. You can't even kill yourself.

If that happened to me, I would demand that the family build me a replica Warhammer 40,000 full Dreadnought casing. If I am going to be entombed for eternity, I might as well have a cool Assault Cannon arm to go with it.