Historical Medicine Pillows

'You're lucky. In my day the doctor beat you with a stick until your appendix fell out.'

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

Cures for Ye Plague

'Hey, this guy's been operated on before!'

'I have no idea what's wrong with you. I just collect information. My computer makes the decisions.'

Edward Jenner

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

"Trepanning for gold"

Early Blood Draw

John Snow

Covid Vaccines

Asylum; May contain patients with mental problems.

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

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

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

"Nurse, could you please click Ok?"

Early Anaesthesia

"We can thank Hippocrates for changing healing from an occult art to a science."

Florence Nightingale

"You've omitted your previous patient experience and recommendations from two other doctors."

"I'd thought I'd lost my arm when I was hit in battle. It's amazing what they can do with reconstructive surgery these days."

Doctors Through the Ages...

The devolution of the NHS

M.D. Mister Jones is back with his sore throat --- He Googled instead of gargled.

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

Hippocrates

2020's Bug Bear

"Look, the generic ones are just as good, and your insurance doesn't cover the brand leeches."

Press Conference

"Supersize me."

"...and this is Ralph, your anesthesiologist."

"I can't wait until we convert to electronic health records. Carry these is giving me backache."

'Your PTST is real, and so is the Obamacare website that caused it.'