Vintage medical

Sits over the cervix to prevent sperm from entering the uterus.

The recent book The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration is not to be leafed through lightly. The volume reproduces 19th-century imag ...

Laudanaum Recently the Baltimore Sun newspaper published an article about a drug addiction that raged during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was called Laudanum. I'm familiar with it, because as somewhat of an amateur historian on Wyatt Earp, one of his female companion died from an overdose of Laudanum. What I realized is that even in the 1960s, doctors were prescribing "Paregoric" a form of Laudanum, to soothe teething pain - in fact it was prescribed to my mom to use on my brothers and…

The surprising reasons 19th c. doctors and women resisted painkillers during labor

Corsets were most popular during the nineteenth-century, and in their heyday (1820s-1830s), they were even prominent among aristocratic men. While maybe the slimming figure was great and all, it sort of made people look like aliens underneath.

Disfigured in the name of fashion. This amazing vintage plate illustrates the terrible effects of the body ruining corset at the early part of the twentieth century. Here is a normal female and a female illustrating the shifted positions of the major internal organs from the front. as a result of corseting. It measures 6.25 x 9" overall and it's printed on the reverse side. Picture these fine ladies elegantly framed in your favorite medical student's future office or framed up pretty at your…

Splanchnology - The study or discourse of the viscera (guts) - Greek: Splanchn(o), "viscera". Stomach (organ) - From Latin stomachus, "throat, gullet, stomach" [also "pride, indignation", since those...

The supplies are wanted, the folks are dying since they don’t have supplies as easy as Aspirin and Advil,” Largaespada stated. The very best part is that we aren’t likely to need to shell out too much so as to find the type of health supplies we really have to have in order to have …

Vintage irrigating syringes. 8"-9" in length. Tarnished metal. Vintage throat and nasal atomizers. Glass bottles. Tarnished metal and plastic fittings. Rubber bulb. Vintage lab rack, well worn and very crusty.