Historical Medicine Buff Prints

Leeches, lucky charms, rat catching. The secretary of health is in.

"What's that mark on your arm, Mama?"

"The bottle says that 'Extreme Hair Growth' is a rare side effect of this medication."

"We're doing everything we can to make him comfortable, short of dressing up as male doctors."

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

Cures for Ye Plague

Edward Jenner

'These young doctors know nothing, I used to see 500 patients every day...'

"Trepanning for gold"

'Why are you giving me an allergy shot. Shouldn't you be giving me an anti-allergy shot?'

Early Blood Draw

"I had no idea that exercising my right of immunity meant this."

John Snow

"Milton finally found a doctor he can trust - one who still believes in the healing power of money."

Water: the first medicine

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

'In this practice we like to have the best of the old with the best of the new.'

Antique Ailments

"So why is it that we only get to see you whenever you need a gruesome amputation?"

"We use leeches on the test subjects and slugs on the control group."

Consultation of Physicians.

"We'll be performing the operation using original instruments."

Florence Nightingale

Early Anaesthesia

"They just don't make 'em like Doc Malone anymore!"

"It's just a reaction to all that artificial flavoring and artificial sweetening. Now if you just take this synthetic medicine..."

Lady Physicians

'I need to depox.'

Press Conference

"On certain types of wounds we use lawyers instead of leeches because lawyers never seem to get their fill of blood..."

Historic Medical Moments: The first time a body rejected a heart before it was transplanted.

Hippocrates

"Your fastball is just hanging and your curve isn't breaking at all. What you should do is take an analgesic with some pain-relieving anti-inflammatory ingredients for a few days."