Historical Medicine Pillows

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

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

Cures for Ye Plague

'Feed a cold, starve the plague.'

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

Edward Jenner

"Trepanning for gold"

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

Early Blood Draw

John Snow

Asylum; May contain patients with mental problems.

An early medical case ripe for a malpractice lawsuit.

"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?"

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

"Nurse, could you please click Ok?"

Antique Ailments

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

Early Anaesthesia

Florence Nightingale

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

The devolution of the NHS

Doctors Through the Ages...

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

Hippocrates

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

2020's Bug Bear

Press Conference

"Supersize me."

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

Man with a wooden leg asking to be measured for a pair of boots